Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
UNESCO, the United Nations agency focused on “promoting world peace and security”, is now looking out for your personal online security with a Chrome browser extension called The Cookie Factory. [Watch]
Japanese cranes stand in as elegant reindeer replacements in this warm and stylish animated Christmas campaign by Parallel Studio based on illustrations by Vincent Mahé for the French luxury fashion brand Kenzo. [Watch]
Creative director Nidia Dias and the Tendril team bust out the full CG toolkit in these two contrasting launch films for the Reno6 Jin and GenZ series phones for Chinese consumer electronics giant Oppo. [Watch]
Director Pedro Conti and his design and animation crew at Flooul Animation in São Paulo, Brazil, just released their new passion project, a short film full of heart and atmosphere called Tamo Junto (Together). [Watch]
CD Sergio Saleh and the motion team at Lumbre in Buenos Aires unleash their CG talents in this intricate feast for the senses featuring the 2021 vintages from California’s Ménage à Trois winery. [Watch]
VFX supervisors Adam Droy and Pete Hodsman lead The Mill creature crew into a holiday adventure in bipolar hyena hilarity with Blur Films director Chris Balmond for Amazon Prime. [Watch]
Ross Sneddon (aka, lead motion designer at Revenant in Glasgow) just dropped us his latest personal film that he describes as a “bleak and familiar future, where instead of tackling world issues, we turn a blind eye and hide away entirely.” [Watch]
A big hit on the festival circuit, “Les Dieux Changeants” (The Changing Gods) by Italian artist/director/composer Lucio Arese weaves Chopin and the destruction of beautifully lit classical statues into three minutes of CG poetry. [Watch]
Milan-based director/animator Margherita Premuroso (also a CD for Elastic.tv) worked with Italian broadcaster RAI and the Torino Film Festival to create an unsettling and enigmatic tone for the event’s Paranormal program. [Watch]
Madrid CG design studio Pleid St. fashions a series of three intensely intricate brand films for venerable Dutch fabric company Vlisco, whose products have been inspired by Africa since 1846. [Watch]
Buenos Aires studio Clubcamping, who dropped this animated sparkler for Porsche back in September, just released an in-house piece of psychotropic fun that will help relieve your Christmas ad overload for the next few minutes. [Watch]
In a nice contrast to the wealth of CG holiday work, Strange Beast directing duo Tjoff Koong wrangle a flurry of magical socks for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London to help seriously ill kids spend Christmas at home with their families. [Watch]
The creative and production teams behind IGA’s standout 2019 holiday film “Inseparables” regroup for another animated heartwarmer for the grocery chain, this time fusing food, family, and hockey into a very Canadian tale. [Watch]
A powerful allegory about the plight of climate refugees, the multi-award-winning and Oscar-eligible CG short film “Migrants” was directed by five 5th year students at PÔLE 3D, an animation school based in Roubaix, France. [Watch]
