Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Animator and illustrator Yves Paradis: “This project is an exquisite corpse of seven parts from animators around the world. Each was given the last five seconds from the previous animator and two months to create their own sequence.” [Watch]
Referencing the op art of Victor Vasarely, London motion designers Paul Plowman and George Dyson (aka Greedy Goons) craft an intricate, hypnotic, and technically challenging music video for the electronic musician/producer Testset. [Watch]
Following on from their visual research into the textures and tactility of felt, the crew at Media.Work in Moscow pivot their CG powers to explore another ubiquitous material that we all take for granted. [Watch]
Passion Animation directors Kyra & Constantin, who kept tear ducts wide-open last year with this spot for Ernst, turn their talents for character and narrative to a Toyota driver who finally gives into sharing holiday joy. [Watch]
The 2021 edition of OFFF Vienna launched with this ambitious and atmospheric allegory from director Ian Bradley and the creative team at animation/VFX studio Carbon, complete with a live orchestral score by Antfood. [Watch]
In their ongoing series for Unbabel’s AI-powered translation platform, Favo Studio once again conjures visually inventive, smile-inducing content from dry information (e.g. customer service training). [Watch]
Animation director Nick Groeneveld and the creature crew at Ambassadors in Amsterdam wrangle a pair of small furry friends in this holiday charmer by Holy Fools director Jelle de Jonge for Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn. [Watch]
Fabian Aerts, the Brussel’s based director/designer who recently dropped these riveting titles and this spectacular short film, just released his latest CG opus – a fanatically detailed and abstract look at the concept of paradigms. [Watch]
Way back in primary school, UK Twitter user @DanannMcAleer penned a darkly comic John Lewis holiday spot. Fast forward 26 years, he tweets his original pitch, and the social platform turns it into a Christmas ad of their own. [Watch]
For their follow-up to last year’s ambitious work for Nespresso, CG style masters FutureDeluxe team with Stockholm digital creature specialists Fable FX to create another hyper-real and coffee-centric domestic fantasy. [Watch]
Watching a cast of eccentric and wonderfully observed apartment dwellers spiraling into chaos makes this six-minute grad film by Hochschule Luzern animation students Amélie Cochet and Louis Möhrle time well spent. [Watch]
Passion Pictures director Jon Saunders digs into a mix of anime and comic book references to evolve the look he established on the Free Fire “Project Cobra” trailer in this latest blast of action for Garena’s mobile battle royale title. [Watch]
Inspired by Sylvain Tesson’s 2019 travel memoir of stalking a snow leopard in Tibet, five GOBELINS grad students craft a stark but finely textured tale of patience, polar bears, and photography. [Watch]
As part of their Find Your Force recruiting campaign, the Royal Air Force (RAF) targets a new generation of engineers with a sweeping full-CG spot directed by Ryan Dzierzek thru London agency Engine. [Watch]
