Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Director Zhang Yahui and her studio YAGA Animation in Taipei open the 2021 Vision Get Wild Awards in Taiwan with this non-stop, neo-retro motion frenzy built around the theme “Creating variants, attacking the strong.” [Watch]
According to Wikipedia, trepanation involves drilling or scraping a hole into the human skull. A fun fact that makes it the perfect title for this psychotropic anime-flavored video for the Japanese creative collective Millennium Parade. [Watch]
For the launch of Fender’s American Acoustasonic Jazzmaster guitar, which allows players to blend between acoustic and electronic tones, veteran CG artisans ManvsMachine craft a stunner based on the tagline “The Sonic Shapeshifter”. [Watch]
HP brings together an A-team of the planet’s visual talent for this branded short film commissioned to highlight their line of Z high-performance PCs aimed at designers and creators. [Watch]
The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition anchors this crusading film directed by Ralph Karam and animated by the crew at Le Cube for Unilever brand, Lux. [Watch]
NYC studio Bigstar teams with writer/director Robe Imbriano (ABC’s Soul of a Nation) to address the history of white supremacy and how “passive racism perpetuated via white fatigue is the biggest challenge in the fight against racism today.” [Watch]
For their first new music video since releasing the Grammy-winning No Geography album in 2019, The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons turn to the UK’s master of color and chaos, director/animator Ruffmercy. [Watch]
Miss Sudoku in London: “One canvas created by 49 of the world’s best 3D artists. At a distance, it appears to be a gradient of rich purple through to baked yellow, but looking closer, each artist has created their own mini-masterpiece. [Watch]
Playard Studios director/animator Carlos Fueyo uses Unreal Engine and manual CG modeling from photo references to craft an intricate and engaging tour through a proposed expansion of The Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach. [Watch]
Bangkok-based director and VFX supervisor Julien Vanhoenacker, who created the surreal post-apocalyptic 2016 short film “A Drop”, swings the tone and palette a full 180 degrees for this bright and breezy adventure packed with beer-loving penguins. [Watch]
Dejavu director Omar Hilal and the Platige VFX crew conjure a forlorn folksinger (who also happens to be a mandrill) to prove Tajawal’s travel app can help you shake your routine-induced ennui. [Watch]
As part of their rebrand for Japan’s largest publisher Kodansha, Brooklyn design house Gretel teams with MJZ director Juan Cabral and London VFX mavens Untold Studios to create this lyrical 90-sec film to frame the new identity. [Watch]
Barcelona studio Six N. Five, who recently dropped this fabulous send-up of CG architectural visualizations, teams with Nando Costa for the latest in his series of intriguing and intricate brand films for Microsoft. [Watch]
French directors Turbo Collective take on that overwhelming feeling of helplessness many of us felt during the unrelenting torrent of bad news that was 2020 – for the Australian Red Cross thru DDB Sydney. [Watch]
