Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Director Fx Goby and the Nexus crew in London mark the end of production for the VW Beetle with an emotional multi-generation epic rotoscoped by hand and starring Ferdinand Porsche’s original 1938 design. [Watch]
The Ambassadors’ crew in Amsterdam handled the character design, VFX, post, audio and music in this latest heartwarmer for Staatsloterij, the Netherlands’ largest lottery known for its life-changing New Year’s Eve jackpots. [Watch]
The popularity of what we might call CG magic realism continued to expand in 2019 as more creators and clients embraced the power of hyper-real 3D to transport viewers to surreal and abstract worlds with spellbinding clarity. [Watch]
The creative challenge and promise of the self-imposed brief make the short film a treasured opportunity for both professionals taking a break from client work and students trying to launch careers with the perfect graduation project. [Watch]
If you wade deep enough into the mind-numbing tide of the music video genre, you will eventually find passionate, talented, and cynicism-free people producing innovative films for interesting musicians, cool events, and good causes. [Watch]
Longer-form marketing films unhampered by the limits of broadcast TV allow for deeper narratives which in turn often inspire forceful and innovative visuals. Here are eight brand films from 2019 we believe live up to that promise. [Watch]
The creative freedom that comes with creating trailers and titles for design conferences have established these sequences as the genre of choice for visually ambitious directors. Here are seven that kept our optic nerves tingling in 2019. [Watch]
Brighton, UK CG artist Chris Cousins examines questions of cultural ownership and commodity in the digital age by imagining a museum of the future where access to art of all kinds is strictly controlled. [Watch]
The first in-house film from Ritzy Animation in London is a rampaging holiday tale of Rudolph’s Rocky-style comeback that required two years of toil, sweat, and reindeer grooming in between the studio’s commercial work. [Watch]
Director Karin Fong and the Imaginary Forces crew weave Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty into a title sequence full of drama and disquietude for season two of “Tell Me a Story” on CBS All Access. [Watch]
Director Seb Caudron says when he first presented the storyboard for this video showcasing waterfalls emanating from buildings in Paris “the production and post teams looked at me like I was on drugs.” [Watch]
Barcelona illustration and animation studio Niceshit designs a fun cast of characters and 12 breezy Ketel One films for TV and social they describe as “One of the coolest and most humor-driven campaigns we have worked on so far.” [Watch]
Riff Raff director Finn Keenan, the VFX crew at MPC Shanghai, and actor Liu Xue Tao keep the comedy coming for the full duration of this frenzied two and a half minute epic for Nike thru the Shanghai office of Wieden+Kennedy. [Watch]
South Korean director/animator Kim G-ryun and his small team conjure an ominous and hyper-real post-media apocalypse as they create buzz for an online motion graphic exhibition scheduled to go live at asymmetry.tv in the summer of 2020. [Watch]
