Food Forest: Ketelbroek | Freek Freriks A forest designed to feed us. Freek Freriks combines animation and VFX in Houdini to introduce Ketelbroek, a food forest in the Netherlands, and its mission in just 33 seconds. Created over two months, the film’s visuals are entirely Freriks’ work, from creative direction and design through animation, compositing, and grading. A compact project spanning the full visual process. With music and sound design by Wouter Messelink and voice-over by Erik van der Ven. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/f… #FreekFreriks #Houdini #Animation #VFX #MotionDesign #mtngrphr #motionographer

The Continuous Thread | Tomakti Studio A spark in the dark opens into a journey across cosmic time. Created by Dimitrios Sakkas, The Continuous Thread moves from the Big Bang and the formation of worlds to trees, wildlife and a quiet moment on a mountain peak. The film brings an immense idea into human focus: the history of the universe is carried in the matter that makes us. Music by Angelos Liaros, aka Blakk Harbor, and sound design by Sotiris Laskaris accompany its passage from cosmic scale to personal reflection. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/t… #mtngrphr #motionographer #MotionDesign #TomaktiStudio #TheContinuousThread #Animation #ShortFilm #SoundDesign

Hypersail | FutureDeluxe Ferrari’s racing DNA takes to the water. FutureDeluxe’s livery launch film for Hypersail brings the vessel’s materials, solar energy systems and foil technology into focus before it was built. A Ferrari WEC car establishes its immense scale, while rapid cuts and expansive views create a rhythm of precision and speed. Designed, directed and produced by FutureDeluxe, with audio by group-project and colour by Alex Gregory at Harbor. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/h… #Hypersail #Ferrari #FutureDeluxe #MotionDesign #CGI #mtngrphr #motionographer

What Is Dyslexia? | Art&Graft A search result can change the way a child sees their future. When Lola looks up dyslexia, the words on her screen leave little room for possibility. An unexpected visitor opens a different path, taking her on a journey through invention, sport and storytelling. Created for Made By Dyslexia, the film gives that familiar search a more hopeful answer through the eyes of a child discovering her own potential. Art&Graft brings the story to life with a hybrid 2D/3D approach, combining hand-drawn marks, expressive brushwork and varied frame rates with CG character animation. Glowing ribbons of colour become a bird; a painterly biplane and an early motorcar float through space. The textured surfaces and loose fragments of colour make imagination feel tangible, with every new encounter expanding Lola’s world. Directed by Kyra Bartley through FINCH and written by Clemenger BBDO, the film shows how Motion Design can give an abstract idea a deeply personal shape. Hope Day voices Lola alongside Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Jaalen Best and Lee Perry, bringing warmth and character to a story about the possibilities a label can leave out. Design & animation: Art&Graft Direction: Kyra Bartley Production: FINCH Agency: Clemenger BBDO Client: Made By Dyslexia Music: Lorne Balfe Sound design: MassiveMusic Original song “Colours”: Ted Griggs Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/w… #MotionDesign #Animation #ArtAndGraft #MadeByDyslexia #CharacterAnimation #3DAnimation #mtngrphr #motionographer

Creative Must Win | RevThink’s Tim Thompson What does it take to build a creative life that can last? Tim Thompson (@revthink_chief) found his way into Hollywood, working in main titles, visual effects, and commercial post production. Then he gave himself permission to change direction. Through RevThink, he has spent nearly twenty years helping creative entrepreneurs build businesses that support their talent, their relationships, and the lives they want to lead. Our new profile explores the belief behind that work, from the encouragement Tim received as a child to the care he brings to owners facing difficult decisions. As AI makes polished output easier to produce, he asks what it takes to develop the judgment to understand, challenge, and improve it. That question carries into Revolve, his six-week accelerator for creative entrepreneurs. Tim invites participants to examine familiar habits, question what clients really value, and explore what they could build next. Read the full article: motionographer.com/2026/10/1… #mtngrphr #motionographer #MotionDesign #CreativeEntrepreneurs #RevThink #TimThompson

OROBORO | Anna Huijun Wang A single eye becomes a character. A character becomes a world. Then it all begins to unravel. In OROBORO, Anna Huijun Wang moves through cel animation, flat graphics, and 3D as her character accumulates limbs, geometry, and an increasingly complex identity. Surrounded by social media and products, she becomes overwhelmed, glitches, and sheds the dimensions she has gained. Each change in medium gives form to the experience of becoming someone, and letting that identity go. Created as Wang’s thesis film at USC, with design by Matthew Sorgie and music and sound by Penrose Audio. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/o… #OROBORO #AnnaHuijunWang #Animation #MotionDesign #ShortFilm #mtngrphr #motionographer

Diptyque “Médicis” | Chris Ullens Tiny artisans bring the making of Diptyque’s wax Médicis vase to life in a miniature stop-motion workshop. Concept, direction and animation by Chris Ullens, with music and sound effects by Audio’s Most Valuable. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/d… #StopMotion #Animation #Miniatures #MotionDesign #Diptyque #mtngrphr #motionographer

Watch your 6! | Cub Studio Felix the Cat has a watch to steal. Cub Studio brings his familiar mischief into a 3D world for Bremont, pairing a playful heist with the watchmaker’s aviation history. Directed by Fraser Davidson, with watch rendering by Henry Patterson and animation by Davidson, Sean Proctor, and Alex McDowell. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/w… #MotionDesign #Animation #CharacterAnimation #3DAnimation #CubStudio #FelixTheCat #Bremont #mtngrphr #motionographer

Charly Soccer x Héctor Herrera: Quetzalcoatl | Open Fire Media Open Fire Media brings football and the legend of Quetzalcoatl together in a film for Charly Soccer’s new shoe with Héctor Herrera. Directed by Levi Arnold and Jared Martinez, the piece opens in CGI before moving into imagery shaped through grading, masks and blurs. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/c… #OpenFireMedia #CharlySoccer #HectorHerrera #Quetzalcoatl #MotionDesign #mtngrphr #motionographer

TRANSIT | Metallux Studio A letter across time. A world at war. A reason to look up together. Created by Nim Shapira, Tamir Avidor and Seffy Hirsch, TRANSIT revisits the global effort to observe the 1761 transit of Venus, inspired by Edmond Halley’s prediction of an event he would never live to see. Metallux Studio uses AI image and video generation to reconstruct eighteenth-century ships, observatories and expeditions. Across oceans and rival nations, a shared scientific task becomes the starting point for a question that still resonates: what are we refusing to do together? Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/t… #MetalluxStudio #TRANSIT #AIFilm #MotionDesign #mtngrphr #motionographer

TRASH | Lucas Durkheim & Eddy Twenty four hours on lookout. A contemporary western in the south of France. Directed by Lucas Durkheim and produced by Eddy, TRASH follows Adel, a drug lookout in a housing estate, through a day headed toward violence. Traditional 2D animation is composited over footage shot on 16mm, bringing drawn characters into a photographed world. Created to accompany French rapper Saïf’s second EP, Si vous saviez, the film turns a neighborhood watch into a feverish waiting game. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/t… #LucasDurkheim #Eddy #Saïf #2DAnimation #16mm #MotionDesign #mtngrphr #motionographer

The Studio That Refused to Be One Thing | Tonic DNA Four decades. An Oscar. A studio identity that has never depended on a single style. In our latest Studio Stories, partner and executive producer Stefanie Bitton takes us inside Montreal’s Tonic DNA, from oil painted animation for IMAX to Bugs Bunny, original storytelling, and AI tools developed with its artists. She talks about protecting creative independence, why 2D never needed a comeback, and the film that still makes her cry. Through every change, the people and the standard of the work remain central. As Motionographer® turns twenty, a conversation with a studio twice our age offers a welcome perspective on what it takes to keep going, and keep changing. Read the full article: motionographer.com/2026/09/2… #TonicDNA #StudioStories #Animation #MotionDesign #CreativeLeadership #mtngrphr #motionographer

Dear Upstairs Neighbors | Connie He Sleepless nights. Noisy neighbors. An exhausted imagination running wild. In her six minute animated short, Pixar alum Connie He turns the frustration of insomnia into a colorful, increasingly unhinged journey. Behind it: 27 storyboard versions and a collaboration between filmmakers and Google DeepMind researchers, using generative models fine tuned on the team’s own concept art. For Motionographer® speaks with Connie about preserving comic timing, translating personal experience into production design, and helping artists and researchers understand what each needs to make a film. A conversation about craft, control, and what happens when a machine learns the visual details its artists hadn’t thought to explain. Read the full article: motionographer.com/2026/09/2… #DearUpstairsNeighbors #ConnieHe #Animation #MotionDesign #Filmmaking #mtngrphr #motionographer

Motionographer® turns 20. Tomorrow, we celebrate together. Saturday, September 26 starts with Motion Plus Design New York at Roulette in Brooklyn. A day of Motion Design, creative conversations, and the people behind the work. Doors open at 1pm, and our ticket discount still applies. Then we head to Mamacita at Deluxx Fluxx under Webster Hall. Latin and hip hop, our community, and twenty years worth of reasons to dance. Doors open at 10pm. The free party tickets have all been claimed. Paid tickets are available on DICE, so book ahead and come early. Bring a friend. Bring someone you just met at the conference. Come celebrate with us. Read the full article: motionographer.com/2026/09/2… #MotionPlusDesign #MotionDesign #DeluxxFluxx #NYC #mtngrphr #motionographer

U.S. Against the World | Good Secrets Seventy percent hip hop. Thirty percent punk rock. For HBO Originals’ U.S. Against the World, Good Secrets channels the U.S. Men’s National Team’s rebellious energy into scratched film, collage, and graffiti. A handcrafted visual language built around the team’s grit and ambition. That approach extends from the title sequence across the entire graphics package, with custom maps, game clocks, scorecards, and archival treatments carrying the same raw, physical texture. Created alongside Park Stories’ Rand Getlin and Janina Pelayo and Outpost’s Lucas Harger. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/u… #GoodSecrets #TitleDesign #MotionDesign #Collage #USMNT #mtngrphr #motionographer

Motionographer turns 20. Twenty seats at the birthday could be yours. We are celebrating with Motion Plus Design New York and a weekend together with the people who make this community what it is. Friday, September 25: Founder House. A private rooftop in Lower Manhattan, the conference speakers, and work from The Motion Awards winners projected onto the building next door. Twenty names will be drawn from everyone holding a Motion Plus Design ticket by September 23. Already have yours? You are in. Winners hear by email on September 24. Saturday, September 26: Motion Plus Design takes the stage at Roulette in Brooklyn. That night we celebrate our twentieth at Mamacita at Deluxx Fluxx, doors at 10pm. Everyone is invited. Grab a free Dice ticket while they last. Twenty years of pointing at the work and the people behind it. Come celebrate with us. Tickets and details in the article: motionographer.com/2026/09/1… Trailer by Yeti Pictures for @motionplusdesign. #mtngrphr #motionographer #MotionPlusDesign #MotionDesign #NYC

She Just Looks Like Her Life: Bridget Jones’s Diary at 25 Running mascara. Windblown hair. The infamous big pants. The details that made Bridget Jones unforgettable are the ones her creators trusted enough to leave in. At Tribeca Festival, Renée Zellweger and director Sharon Maguire revisited the film’s creation, from performing without vanity to finding universal recognition in a very particular life. For Motionographer®, Jesse Rylander explores what that specificity can teach anyone building a character, a world, or a story meant to last. Read the full article: motionographer.com/2026/09/1… #BridgetJones #ReneeZellweger #SharonMaguire #TribecaFestival #Storytelling #MotionDesign #mtngrphr #motionographer

OFF! Scratch | Believe.tv Mosquito bites make you scratch. OFF! decided to turn that instinct into something far more satisfying. Created by Believe.tv, Scratch takes the season’s most maddening itch and transforms it into one final, rewarding scratch, shifting the action away from your skin and into a playful visual payoff. A simple behavioral insight, turned into a sharp piece of advertising with a clear idea at its center. Watch the full film: motionographer.com/quickie/o… #MotionDesign #Advertising #BrandFilm #VisualStorytelling #CreativeDirection #BelieveTV #OFF #mtngrphr #motionographer

Motionographer Jobs is back in motion. For twenty years, Motionographer has celebrated the artists, studios, and creative teams shaping the language of Motion Design. Now, as part of our 20th anniversary, Motionographer Jobs is entering its next chapter. Twenty years. Twenty days. From September 10 through September 29, studios, agencies, production companies, brands, and creative teams can post jobs on Motionographer Jobs for free. Since July 2015, Motionographer Jobs has generated more than 158,000 applications, connecting our community with thousands of creative opportunities. Every submission during the complimentary window is personally reviewed by Motionographer. Approved listings stay live for 30 days, appear on Motionographer Jobs and Motionographer.com, and are included in the Jobs section of our newsletter. Not hiring right now? Use code MOTION20 through September 29 for 20% off a listing, pack, or upgrade, and post whenever you're ready. Let's get this community working. Read the full article: motionographer.com/2026/09/1… Post a job, free: jobs.motionographer.com/paym… Looking? The board is open: jobs.motionographer.com/ #MotionDesign #mtngrphr #motionographer