Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Following on his ode to the Saab S9 this past summer, director/designer Ash Thorp teams with London automotive CGI artist Carlos Pecino (aka ColorSponge) to wrap a temporal composite vehicle called the Evinetta in mystery and atmosphere. [Watch]
A young girl’s disappointment at having to spend New Year’s eve with her grandma slowly turns to delight in this enchanting and richly illustrated short film from Armenian director/animator Natalia Mirzoyan. [Watch]
Solab director Romain Chassaing and Paris VFX force Digital District conjure the epic quest of a young man entrusted with a child’s beloved goldfish in this comedy adventure for venerable French retail cooperative Système U. [Watch]
While design events (live and virtual) play a crucial role in connecting and inspiring all of us in the creative industries, they also provide exceptional opportunities for the studios invited to create titles and promotional assets. [Watch]
Unchained from the run-time constraints, hefty media buys, and content rules of television, films produced for online/social distribution have matured into a brand’s most powerful weapon for telling more complex and emotional stories. [Watch]
While the explosion of scripted programming over the last five years has kept title design studios bustling, show opens have also emerged as an important showcase of choice for motion design passion projects. [Watch]
Pandemic or not, and no matter the genre or tone of the project – in 2020 characters remained the single most reliable way to ensure an audience’s emotional engagement with your work. [Watch]
Despite virus-induced production setbacks in 2020, the universe of advertising VFX continued to expand with young studios vying with venerable post facilities for the chance to create the fun and emotion of new branded realities. [Watch]
Whether you crave a break from client work or you’re about to graduate, short films offer a powerful vehicle to expand your visual, narrative, and production talents while asserting your commitment to the art and craft of motion. [Watch]
The best music videos have always been passion projects, with directors, animators, and VFX artists ignoring creative and fiscal restraints to push their ideas into new and unexplored visual terrain. [Watch]
As more directors and designers added powerful and affordable 3D tools to their arsenal in 2020, the scope and quality of work continued to mature – finding broader acceptance in commercial work and exhibiting a wider emotional range. [Watch]
To showcase the new minimalist Blackbird line from architectural lighting brand VIZULO, Latvian director, animator, and 3D technical artist Arnis Vitols creates three intimate and tactile CG films. [Watch]
For their annual holiday film, Passion Animation enlists their directing duo Tezo Kyungdon Lee and Magnus Lenneskog (aka Tjoff Koong Studios) to create “The Lights”, a set of quietly emotional vignettes anchored by a gentle hymn. [Watch]
Merging found footage with an eerie acid-dipped take on classic cartoons, director/animator Marcos Sánchez spins out a magical alternate universe for “Grey to Green” by Korean pop singer Lydia Lee. [Watch]
