Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
A major hit on the festival circuit, this surprisingly emotional tale of a satellite technician and his battle with loneliness was created at Team Tumult in Zurich with Frederic Siegel and Benjamin Morard directing. [Watch]
Fresh work from the ever-playful NY director/animator/illustrator Joel Plosz is always welcome news and this retro monochrome music video for “The Number Thirteen” by Nashville-based Louis Prince just proves the point. [Watch]
South Korean director/animator Seoro Oh, whose short films have raised both sneezing and sleepiness to hilarious art forms, applies his relaxed and fluid style to the problems with popular personality tests in this explainer for TED-Ed. [Watch]
It’s been a busy week for director Ariel Costa (aka BlinkMyBrain), first dropping a wild brand film for BMW and now this intriguing cutdown of an explainer for Hewlett Packard Enterprise produced with NOMINT thru Publicis NY. [Watch]
Ben Collier-Marsh’s latest music video for London singer/songwriter Sami Fitz is a bonkers experiment in non-linear collage – produced with creative input from his kids, the film involved no planning, design, or storyboarding. [Watch]
The centerpiece of a large broadcast package for ESPN, this film by director Vitaly Grossmann and the Tendril team ramps up high-style CG to create a “graphical language that metaphorically captures the essence of the College Football Playoffs.” [Watch]
Paris-based Jungler director Vincent Gibaud and Brooklyn painter/illustrator Jackson Joyce combine forces for a devastating take on child sexual abuse for French NGO Face à l’Inceste thru agency Publicis Conseil. [Watch]
Director Ariel Costa’s collage mastery takes center stage in this rampaging brand film targeting young car buyers and created specifically to run on BMW’s new channel on the Chinese video platform bilibili. [Watch]
VanMoof, the Dutch maker of bicycles and electric bicycles continues commissioning some of the coolest brand films on the planet with this latest one arriving courtesy of creative director Tom Dibb and The Mill team. [Watch]
Buck follows up their standout Mailchimp “Anthem” spot with another blend of loose illustrative style and intriguing transitions for the Atlanta-based marketing platform’s new philanthropic initiative Big Change Starts Small. [Watch]
The stories of an astronaut, a film director, and a unicycling bear all intersect in “The Moon’s Not That Great”, Mathieu Libman’s soft-spoken short film about dashed expectations and interplanetary popularity. [Watch]
Trapped in quarantine, the animation and design crew at Trinetix (an enterprise software company in Kyiv, Ukraine) wondered about “the planet’s biggest problems, and how can an individual have a positive influence on their surroundings” [Watch]
Grab a peek at this two-minute cutdown of the new design, animation, and VFX work jammed into Stash 145, the latest must-see addition to the planet’s largest (and most inspiring) motion archive – aka the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
The latest 3D exploration from the team at C A T K in Berlin is a five-minute, data-driven opus of melting abstraction that “seeks the beauty and artistic potential in the algorithmic recreation of real-life occurrences.” [Watch]
