Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
The latest real-time CG work from director Han Yang and Shape Shifters Creative in Vancouver uses Unreal Engine 5 and the cloud-streamed app MetaHuman Creator to craft a tense and intimate fantasy that suggests the future of video production is already here. [Watch]
The All-Sydney directing team of Tom Noakes, Will Goodfellow (from prodco GOONO) and Greg Sharp (from Truba Animation) conjure an anime adrenaline fest for Bosnian-Swedish DJ/producer Salvatore Ganacci. [Watch]
Urged on by the words of English performance poet John Cooper Clarke, creative director Stefan Falconer and the crew at Golden Wolf layer up a barrage of collage for adidas and Manchester United through London agency Homeground. [Watch]
Directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore at Seattle studio Plains of Yonder team with Sydney illustrator Lezio Lopes to capture the eccentric spirit of HBO’s new social satire The White Lotus with a sequence of finely detailed wallpaper patterns. [Watch]
While studying illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig Germany, Franz Impler taught himself 3D animation then went on to break every rule and convention of the genre in his wonderfully bizarre thesis project “Out Of Bounds”. [Watch]
Inspired by the idea of “predetermined resilience”, Scottish studios Playdead and Eyebolls create a tough little glass protagonist navigating a perilous and crowded landscape in this brand film for investment managers Baillie Gifford. [Watch]
Los Angeles motion design studio BIEN helps the city’s Getty Museum attract a younger and more diverse base of visitors with this series of upbeat, collage-driven explainer films designed to appeal to sixth-graders. [Watch]
Directors Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki at WOW in Tokyo commemorate the studio’s 25th anniversary with a visceral CG nightmare for the ages with help from UK real-time and volumetric content specialists Dimension Studio. [Watch]
Inspired by the idea of future generations traveling back in time via “data excavation”, Polish designer/animator and programmer Ksawery Kirklewski mixes code and images from his own past to create a mesmerizing video for Dutch composer Joep Beving. [Watch]
After being struck by Riho Makise’s 1993 hit “Miracle Love” online, Chinese visual designer and 3D artist Zaoeyo committed to making a project “based on the song’s mood and seeing how far I could achieve realism in that ‘city pop’ style.” [Watch]
In his latest personal short film How Have You Been?, director/animator Andy Baker reteams with London illustrator Polly Nor for a surreal look at “coping with grief, depression, and the mundanity of life in lockdown.” [Watch]
Paris multidisciplinary creative studio Services Généraux makes its Stash debut with this sleek, tactile, and ultimately envy-inducing product film for the innovative Gemini earbuds from French luxury audio brand Devialet. [Watch]
CD and founder Matt Pyke at Universal Everything: “Infinity is a never-ending video artwork, an endless parade of unique personalities born from code. Glimpse something new every time you look, for every minute, of every day, forever.” [Watch]
Berlin studio Color and the Kids gather a team of top CG talent to create a string of vibrant and enigmatic broadcast IDs as part of a network rebrand by Scandanavian agency Bold for Norwegian free-to-air commercial channel TV 2. [Watch]
