Studio Dumbar's Demo Festival is the largest motion design festival in the world. I promised myself I would submit something for 2025. Out of 1953 designers who submitted over 5400 motion pieces I was so chuffed to make the cut of 360 designers that featured in 2025. I might have been at the bottom of the pile, but .

Here are the 5 I submitted:

Skew Bounce

This is the video that featured in Demo 2025. It was inspired by a sketch I saw on Instagram by @omran_mezher. I tried to personify the shapes movement. I like the tension this creates.

Fuel emissions

This is the video I actually assumed was selected, because it has a pretty clear concept (unlike the others). Friend and colleague, Kris Stirna, and I planned to work together on something with generative AI; him being the technical guy, me being the designer. Inevitably, we left things wayyy too late. We still wanted a data driven animation, so this is what we came up with. The data is static, but it was fun to play with nonetheless)

Despite no longer needing Kris’s technical brain, his input was  crucial in making this look good. Basically all my favourite design decisions are his suggestions.

False Depth

This was just a happy accident when playing with the shapes created when a line rotates around an endpoint while travelling around the path of a circle. The silly shit that I can spend hours with.

Stadium lights

Inspired by the light show in Stade de France rugby stadium before a world cup game.

Perspective grid

I don’t remember what triggered this one, but I know I  made it about an hour before the deadline to submit my videos. I think I just wanted to play with the new 2.5d features in Cavalry.

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