FMX Drops 2025 Conference Trailer

Created by Samuel Lewek and his team at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, ‘Dancing in Norms’ reflects the upcoming event’s ‘Rhythm of Change’ theme; ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 is first confirmed presentation.

FMX has released Dancing in Norms (DIN), the trailer for the upcoming 2025 conference, which reflects the “Rhythm of Change” theme. The trailer was created by Samuel Lewek and other young motion designers at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Lewek, director and curator of the Motion Design track at FMX 2024, will present DIN, his graduation project, at FMX 2025.

“I've been lucky enough to meet this amazing community of people”, said Lewek. “I had many inspiring conversations and I'm very happy that we as a team can contribute the trailer and be a part of FMX again.”

Designer chairs served as models for shaping the creatures in the trailer, which were further developed via the movements of a dancer in a motion capture setup.

“We motion designers, animators and VFX artists always sit in front of computers,” Lewek explained. "That was the impetus for me to deal with the standardization of movements. Animation has a lot to do with dancing, it's an extreme stylization of movements, you shape them aesthetically.”

“We were lucky enough to have the motion capture stage of the Animationsinstitut at Filmakademie at our disposal for a day,” he added. “They also gave us a lot of technical support. Shoots like this are normally almost impossible to finance."

FMX has also announced the first confirmed program to be House of the Dragon Season 2. Pixomondo will deliver a presentation of their visual effects work in the second season of the HBO series. Moderated by Ian Failes (“befores & afters” magazine), the panel features the VFX studios’ expert crew as well as the series' filmmakers.

FMX 2025 takes place in Stuttgart, Germany from May 6 to 9, 2025.

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