Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Shanghai director and motion designer Gigu Yang channels his passion for Hidetaka Miyazaki’s action-adventure video game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice into a meticulous and moody spec CG title sequence. [Watch]
ROOF Studios leverages their obsession with the smallest of life’s details to help connect modern audiences with the emotional story of an elderly German woman and her forced separation from family and loved ones during World War II. [Watch]
Friends and co-directors Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte, and Meghan McDonough gather a series of real-life pandemic dreams into a surreal yet very resonant string of animated vignettes presented by The New Yorker. [Watch]
First conceived as the title sequence for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, this HBO Max promo uses the sentient autonomous computers known as Mother Boxes from the film as a way to explore the history of the six core superheroes. [Watch]
In 2020, director Ben Hibon and the animation team at Unit Image dropped two massive trailers for Riot Games’ new digital collectible card game Legends of Runeterra (here and here). This latest film is just as ambitious and carefully crafted. [Watch]
Art director and 3D animator Jake Wegesin, whose 2019 short Next Flight Home warmed hearts in Stash 136, just dropped us his latest film – inspired by an unexpected custom in his new hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark. [Watch]
The frog character introduced in e-bike maker VanMoof’s last spot (a cool CG number from The Mill) steers a completely different course in new work by London illustrator Jim Stoten and Cape Town animation studio Bewilder. [Watch]
One of the most visually and technically innovative student films you will see this year, Cassie Shao’s USC grad film “There Were Four of Us” was originally inspired by a dream then gained added dimensions with the death of her grandfather. [Watch]
A new must-see touring exhibition documenting the collaboration of David Bowie and English photographer Brian Duffy over five albums from 1972 to 1980 becomes all the more intriguing with this promo by Scottish motion director Chris Bain. [Watch]
Working thru Toronto motion house IAMSTATIC, animation director Matt Kalinauskas brings a soft and comfortable look to this feel-good spot for TFO’s Idello, a Francophone educational learning platform for Ontario’s teachers and students. [Watch]
Directors Vidya Sharma and Rajesh Thomas (aka Rocketscience Lab) working thru Lucifer Circus in Mumbai infuse this spot for Amazon India with an aura of magic realism by teaming with the miniatures and VFX teams at Thunder Studios. [Watch]
The Passion Pictures crew, lead by director Jon Saunders, draws inspiration from anime while pushing past the genre’s limits in this atmospheric and action-packed new trailer for Garena’s online battle royale game Free Fire. [Watch]
Vancouver animation studio Linetest craft a prismatic mix of 2D and 3D styles to illustrate the growing impact of ocean noise pollution on the bowhead whale population for the WWF Arctic Programme in Canada. [Watch]
Bristol’s own master of ruff-house animation Russ Murphy continues his quest for hand-drawn nirvana in this latest collaboration with US musicians/producers Ross Harris and Frank Leone – a fun and infectious track called “Shoulder Wire”. [Watch]
