Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Transitioning from darkness to fearless over two and a half minutes, this new work for Sick Kids hospital directed by Mark Zibert with VFX and post by The Vanity is one of the most rousing and emotional spots you will witness this year. [Watch]
Bulgarian director/animator Simona Mehandzhieva, who graduated with the Narrative Animation class of 2020 from the Royal College of Art, applies her vibrant and idiosyncratic style to a piece for Denmark-based space-pop duo Moon Panda. [Watch]
Inspired by writer Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood’s comic series Moon Knight, Indian director/designer Akshay Tiwari (currently at The Mill NY), crafts a personal film he describes as “a journey through death, doubt, and delirium culminating in symbolic rebirth.” [Watch]
The newest grad film from this year’s animation class at GOBELINS, wraps important ideas about women’s rights and authoritarian rule into a charming dark comedy about three elderly women who just want to sing. [Watch]
In a unique collaboration, Barcelona design and animation studio Niceshit creates a manic brand film for their friends at Basque brewery Gross, who in turn released a limited-edition Niceshit IPA called Blue Dog. [Watch]
In the gentle and edifying short film Blue Curry from five animation students at GOBELINS in Paris, a mother invites her son to understand the beauty of diversity on Earth as they prepare dinner together. [Watch]
Director Raj Davsi and the CG masters at FutureDeluxe mark the launch of Vietnamese sneaker brand Bitis Hunter’s latest release – a collaboration with rapper/renaissance man Viet Max – in this sultry mix of dance and digital. [Watch]
Best known for her animated feature background work, Paris-based artist Anne Raffin leaps into the director’s chair with this dystopian vision for French DJ and musician François X with Les Monstres studio handling production. [Watch]
A young woman with crippling OCD confronts her worst fears head-on to save the day for her sister in this intimate, composed, and surprisingly emotional short film from five animation students at GOBELINS in Paris. [Watch]
Beijing’s B-O-D studio, whose animation talents range from anime action to sleek 3D design, shows off an additional flurry of styles in this new work for a conference staged by Chinese design platform ZCOOL. [Watch]
The late-night stress of an overworked agency creative takes on new dimensions with the full-on hallucination of a triple-threat cracker named Crumbles – courtesy of Skin and Bones director Edward Andrews and Tantrum Studio in Toronto. [Watch]
Fueled by a track from rapper and Run-DMC co-founder Darryl McDaniels, this ambitious spot/music video by director Paulo Garcia and Zombie Studios in São Paulo helps raise awareness of the dietary dangers of sugar for non-profit Hip Hop Public Health. [Watch]
Inspired by a dream, director/animator Cassie Shao mixes animation and live-action with paper cut-outs and 3D elements to conjure this whimsical and disorienting musical adventure for Los Angeles duo Maggie Dave. [Watch]
Polish pop band and YouTube stars Ekipa and their dinosaur doppelgangers are launched on a post-apocalypse romp in this animated frenzy by director Rafał Blecharz and Studio Pigeon in Kraków, Poland. [Watch]
