MO:DE Festival 2026
About this Event
Welcome to MO:DE Festival 2026!
MO:DE is where the future of motion design is negotiated in real time.
A two-day, industry facing festival at the intersection of animation, design and emerging creative technologies. A living canvas where creatives collide in the stratosphere of moving image, igniting the conversations that shape what comes next.
Join us 18 - 19 June 2026, at Ravensbourne University, London.
MO:DE attracts over 600 attendees from leading studios, emerging talent, and educators. With studio-led talks, hands-on workshops and networking opportunities.
MO:DE isn’t observing change. It’s where change is happening.
MO:DE began with a simple belief: when grassroots creativity meets industry leaders, the whole field moves forward.
Built on collaboration, MO:DE creates a space where studio founders, freelancers, technologists, educators and emerging talent connect as equals. Since 2023, speakers from leading studios including Ditroit, Alice Isaac, Golden Wolf, Art & Graft and Builders Club have taken the stage at Ravensbourne University London.
We champion diversity, accessibility and new perspectives to inspire change and evolution in motion design and creative technology.
In 2026, MO:DE returns bigger and bolder with curated talks, hands-on workshops and powerful networking designed to spark collaboration, ideas and opportunity.
The 2026 line-up includes studios and speakers such as Buck, 59 Studio, Zunk Studio, Christie Lau, and Where are the Black Designers, with further announcements to come.
Head to our website:.https://www.modefestival.org/ for updates.
Speakers Schedule
🕑: 10:30 AM - 09:30 PM
Day 1 Thursday 18th June 2026
🕑: 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
MO:DE Festival 2026 Opening Talk
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
Henry Yeomans & Thomas Valente from We Are Inertia
Info: The Art of Reinvention: Why We Reinvent Ourselves With Every Brief
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
Lucy Hardcastle
Info: Sensory and non-Traditional Narratives Within Motion Design.
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Matt Beveridge from Pebble Studio
Info: How to Stand Out, Win Work and Be More You
🕑: 12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
Cavalry Talk
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:30 PM
Joss Affleck
Info: Cabaret Is Like Motion Design’s Weird Cousin
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:25 PM
Michael Adelaja
Info: How Personal Projects Can Assist Learning and Development: Let’s Get Personal
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:10 PM
Vincenzo Marchese Ragona (ffforum)
Info: From freelance to founding a studio - origin, chaos, order
🕑: 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM
Rifke Sadleir
Info: Ethical Web Design Practice
🕑: 04:45 PM - 05:10 PM
Curtis Baigent from Mattering Studio
Info: Inhabiting Change: Translating Emerging Conditions Into New Creative Languages
🕑: 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:40 PM
Fabrice Le Nezet from Optical Arts
Info: My Journey as an Artist: Exploring Creative Practice and Sharing Insight
🕑: 06:45 PM - 07:15 PM
Yatty The Man
Info: Cultivating and Understanding Your Own Audience
🕑: 07:15 PM - 08:00 PM
Zünc Studio
Info: The Joy of Doing It Well
🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:15 PM
Day 1 Closing Talk
🕑: 08:15 PM - 09:30 PM
DJ, Drinks & Discussions
Info: Grab a drink from the bar and connect.
🕑: 10:30 AM - 08:30 PM
Day 2 Friday 19 June 2026
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Thiago from Cookie Studio
Info: It Is OK, Not To Be OK
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
Carolina Vallejo from 59 Productions
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Naomi DaCosta
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:40 PM
Reuben Armstrong
Info: An Exercise In Perspective
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:10 PM
Andrea Marshall
Info: How to Not Lose Your Voice During the Technological Boom
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Tom Merry
Info: Intuition and Post-Rationalisation Among Other Skills Overlooked by Most Creatives
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:10 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:40 PM
Christie Lau & Edmund Fraser from Godmode
Info: Captured, Not Generated: Gaussian Splatting and the Future of 3D Image Making
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM
DINES®
Info: Creative Chaos
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:40 PM
Jennifer Zheng from BUCK
Info: Self-Aware Directing: Spilling the Tea on How to Direct Designers and Animators Without Being Toxic
🕑: 05:45 PM - 06:15 PM
Alice Sherwin
Info: Books and Brands
🕑: 06:15 PM - 06:55 PM
Break and Networking
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:40 PM
Zelig Sound
Info: How We Work. Plus Some Thoughts on Music, Sound and Things I Like
🕑: 07:45 PM - 08:15 PM
Anastassia Kovach
Info: Unfinished, Still Beautiful
🕑: 08:15 PM - 08:30 PM
Day 2 Closing Talk
Workshops
🕑: 10:45 AM - 07:30 PM
Day 1 Workshops
Info: All workshops will be bookable upon arrival and will be on a first come, first serve basis.
🕑: 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Kris Farr: Creating art directable crushing animations using Vellum in Houdini
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Cavalry
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ditroit: Bad Tools, Good Design.
Info: A workshop about making beautiful things with terrible tools.
Using only a phone, a basic app like Notes or Pages, and the screenshots already saved in their gallery, participants create an artwork from the visual debris of their everyday digital life.
No software, no assets, no perfection. Just what is already there, turned into good design.
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Joss Affleck: The School of Unlearning Workshop
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Eran: Animating Logos That Tell a Story in After Effects
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM
Savannah-Wells Wiegand: Intro to Generative Noise Animation in Touchdesigner
🕑: 10:30 AM - 05:45 PM
Day 2 Workshops
Info: All workshops will be bookable upon arrival and will be on a first come, first serve basis.
🕑: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
James McDermott: Lens Studio AR introduction
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Ditroit: Bad Tools, Good Design Workshop
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Kris Farr: Creating art directable crushing animations using Vellum in Houdini
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:45 PM
Cavalry
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 11.55 to GBP 98.22
