Case Study — 2026

Death by a Thousand Cells

A motion piece on the slow death of the spreadsheet, and the dashboards built to replace it — made in Remotion, because even a video about leaving spreadsheets refused to open one.

  • Motion Design
  • Data Visualization
  • Remotion

Spreadsheets never really die. They multiply in shared drives, grow hidden tabs nobody remembers adding, and quietly become the single point of failure behind decisions no one can explain a year later. This is a two-minute eulogy.

Built entirely in Remotion — video authored and rendered as code, not timelines — the piece treats the shift from spreadsheet to dashboard as what it actually is: not a redesign, but an intervention. Rows become bars. Tabs become views. A thousand identical cells resolve, finally, into one shape you can read at a glance.

The joke doubles as the argument. If a spreadsheet could tell its own story, it would need help doing it — same eleven-point font, same gridlines, straining to hold a narrative it was never built to carry. A dashboard doesn’t strain. It just shows you the point.

A self-directed piece — no client attached — made to think through motion and data at the same time Remotion pushed the studio to start thinking in code instead of keyframes.