Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Your lizard brain, a part of the limbic system processing our most primal emotions, wakes up and takes over in this happy rant from Private Island director Chris Boyle for financial app Yolt thru Uncommon Creative Studio. [Watch]
Winner of a Student Academy Award in 2020, Pascal Schelbli’s graduation film The Beauty mixes live-action underwater footage with innovative VFX for an intriguing take on the problem of ocean plastic. [Watch]
The abstracted reconstruction of a Buddha stands as an apt metaphor for the soothing powers of a spa in Vilnius, Lithuania, during this tranquil video by Rimantas Lukavicius and the crew at Korb. [Watch]
Music video and game trailer blend into a dramatic and dream-fueled six-minute epic in this new work from Moscow studios Petrick and Zheeshee for Russian singer Zemfira and starring Austin, the balding butler from Homescapes. [Watch]
London studio Panoply just released the latest in their ongoing series of Curiosities and like the previous films, it showcases the studio’s talents for meticulous rendering and an obsession with both detail and innovation. [Watch]
A personal project 18 months in the making, Morgan Powell’s short film “Bubble” was originally inspired by the anxiety of a family medical prognosis but evolved over the course of production into something greater, and happier. [Watch]
StrangeBeast director/animator Laura Jayne Hodkin brings a cast of eccentric characters and her unmistakable style to the anchor video of a new campaign for UK mobile operator giffgaff thru London agency Don’t Panic. [Watch]
Joyrider director Reuben Sutherland combines analog and digital animation techniques to push the concept of low-res to the breaking point in this frenetic yet mesmerizing video for German electronic duo Ducks!. [Watch]
As part of the rebrand of their lifestyle and entertainment free-to-air channels, Discovery UK’s in-house creative agency teamed with London design/animation studio Ink and Giants to create this standout series of CG Idents. [Watch]
Working with London studio Traum Inc., Melbourne video artist Nic Hamilton elevates the launch of the new Limited-Edition Fragment Design Powerbeats Pro earphones styled by Japanese musician, producer, and designer Hiroshi Fujiwara. [Watch]
Creative director Patrick Clair and the Antibody crew team with Mathematic Paris to dramatize a throughline to the near future where autonomous weapons are a definite problem in this ominous work for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint. [Watch]
Director Kellan Stover and the crew at Powerhouse Animation in Austin dial up the anime flavor in these two branded short films for Magnum Ice Cream to address “the deep and meaningful pleasure that comes from being true to who you are.” [Watch]
How do you convince the shaving public that a single-bladed razor is not only worth a luxury price (up to $400) but is also a highly engineered, must-have objet d’art? The crew at PlayBack.design in Lithuania has a few beautiful ideas. [Watch]
Art director Fausto Montanari and the crew at Lobster Studio spent more than a year working with Amazon’s creative team to develop a vast array of upbeat illustration and animation assets for the company’s Halo activity tracker and app. [Watch]
