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Once Upon a Rabbit Animated Short

Hannah Sun and Jesseter Wang Animated Short Movie Monday, 2 November 2026

Once Upon a Rabbit

Once Upon a Rabbit is an animated design project inspired by cultural details of the Lantern Festival and childhood visual memory. The work establishes a soft, expressive visual language through a hybrid of dimensional form and hand drawn sensibility, creating imagery that feels both structured and playful. Recurring motifs such as the rabbit and Tangyuan, rice balls, are used as visual anchors, while motion, rhythm, and composition emphasize atmosphere and continuity, resulting in a cohesive design experience rooted in warmth, familiarity, and cultural resonance.

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Future of Banking Explanatory Motion Graphics

Mengchao Wu Explanatory Motion Graphics Movie Sunday, 1 November 2026

Future of Banking

Ms. Wu created this video for Julius Baer to explain the working method of their new digital product for their potential investor. From concepting, storyboard, style frames design to animation, she figured out how to visualize the difference between heavy workflow, digitalization and new era. She added visual metaphors to increase uniqueness. Creative thinking and techniques were utilized to create a video with a clear story narrative and visual attractions. This video showed the beautiful future the new digital product will bring.

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Simplest Happiness Commercial Animation

Yen C Chen Commercial Animation Movie Saturday, 31 October 2026

Simplest Happiness

The Chinese zodiac in that year is the pig, so Yen C designed the sliced pig, and it's a pun in "many hot movies" in Chinese. The characters are very happy, just in line with the channel's image has always wanted to give the audience the feeling. And combine four movies elements into the video. Children who are playing can best show pure happiness, and hope that the audience will have the same feeling when watching the movie.

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2021 Kids Channel Ident Promo TVC Animation

27 Design TVC Animation Movie Friday, 30 October 2026

2021 Kids Channel Ident Promo

Children's imagination is always wonderfully endless. Therefore, in terms of expression, designers also mix various rich creative media and cleverly connect each style and the intersection of imagination and reality with the playful voices of children. They deliberately let the toy plane originally made by children take off in the real environment as if it has come to life, breaking the boundaries between reality and imagination, symbolizing the spirit of children's channels that always makes the imagination come true.

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Alignment to Air 3D Animation

Jin Jeon 3D Animation Movie Thursday, 29 October 2026

Alignment to Air

As for the creative letter animation, Jin started with the alphabet "A". And, when it comes to the concept step, he tried to see more vigorous moods reflecting on his philosophy which is quite active but organizing at the same time. Along the way, he came up with the conflicting words thoroughly standing for his idea in some way such as align to air which is the title of this project. With that in mind, the animation presents more precise and delicate moments on the first word. On the other hand, this ends up with a rather flexible and loose vibe to manifest the last letter.

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My Coin 3D Animation

Sungkyun Bae 3D Animation Movie Wednesday, 28 October 2026

My Coin

My Coin is a short three-dimensional animated film about the meaning of value. The story follows a boy who drops a coin into a sewer. A wealthy man sees the boy and offers a gold bar instead of the lost coin. For the boy, the gold is only a tool to recover the coin, while the man sees gold as the greater prize. The film shows that each person holds a different standard of value. My Coin was created with computer animation software, which allowed the characters and their actions to be exaggerated for dramatic effect.

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Design Interview of the Day

Design Interview of the DaySpecial CoverageMonday, 26 October 2026

Design Interview of the Day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about the design processes of great designers.

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