Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
London designer/artist/illustrator Lisa Stickley personifies the growing problem of food poverty and the ruinous toll hunger takes on one in five children in the UK for an initiative by supermarket chain Aldi. [Watch]
Edinburgh filmmaker Jonnie Lewis and Ann Arbor, Michigan street artist David Zinn explore the nature of creativity in the mini-doc “Around the Block” with Scottish animation studio The 2D Workshop adding a lovely layer of whimsy. [Watch]
The team at ROOF Studio in New York engage their talents for hyper-detailed worlds and characters to elevate this film designed to raise awareness of NTM Lung Disease for biopharmaceutical brand Insmed thru agency AREA 23. [Watch]
With the MISTER studio in Sydney closed for 10 days between Christmas and New Year, CD Mike Williamson grabbed the time to create a personal project and revisit his childhood love of Roland Emmerich’s 1994 sci-fi classic “Stargate”. [Watch]
Sally Reynolds, an Australian designer/artist living in New York, says the inspirations for her latest short film “Alla Luce” include, ballet, Moby, American kinetic sculptor Anthony Howe, ceramic artist Juz Kitson, and a hangover. [Watch]
With roots extending back as far as 1833, the zoetrope continues to cast a spell over creatives and consumers alike, with this intricate and elegant spot for VW’s new ID.4 EV serving as a showcase for seven versions. [Watch]
Copenhagen CG specialists Frame help commemorate the 50th anniversary of designer Verner Panton’s now-classic Panthella lamp and showcase the new brass reissue for Danish lighting brand Louis Poulsen. [Watch]
After several years of crafting stellar openings for the TEDxSydney conference, director Scott Geersen and his Substance studio opened up the 2020 assignment to an international team of motion design collaborators. [Watch]
Nexus director Robertino Zambrano turns the experiences of three smokers struggling to quit into engaging animated mini-docs for the California Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Program thru agency Duncan Channon. [Watch]
The team at Nash in São Paulo delivers powerful VFX support in this spot celebrating both Johnnie Walker’s 200th-anniversary and the (eventual) return of humans to social normality for Iconoclast directors Ian Ruschel and Gabriel & Quemuel. [Watch]
Italian artist/animator Gianluigi Toccafondo applies his signature paint-over-live-action technique to a music video co-directed with Marco Molinelli he admits was “inspired by science fiction cinema and Japanese erotic culture.” [Watch]
The Mill team weaves both invisible and dreamlike VFX into Anorak director Sebastian Strasser’s stylish and stylized narrative of a car designer’s quest for perfection in this spot for Hyundai’s family of electrified SUVs. [Watch]
Can pickling onions and hanging your clothes to dry save the planet from a massive meteor of trash? Find out in the latest IKEA collaboration by MJZ director Tom Kuntz, VFX masters Electric Theatre Collective, and agency Mother London. [Watch]
Nomint design/directing duo Manos Gerogiannis and Yannis Zoumakis (aka Odd Bleat) celebrate the holiday season with Christian Dior by drawing inspiration from Puglia, Italy – the home region of Maria Grazia, the brand’s Executive creative director. [Watch]
