Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Freeing themselves from narrative restrictions, École des Nouvelles Images students Héloïse Courtois, Victori Jalabert, Chloé Plat, and Adèle Raigneau, weave delightful characters into a quiet, impressionist/surreal afternoon at the pool. [Watch]
Working with Oscar-nominees Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Night at the Museum) and Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit), the MPC crew populates an all-night party at DICK’S Sporting Goods with 46 CG characters including the star Nike Air Max 270. [Watch]
One of the standout films from the 2019 class at French animation school Gobelins, Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Lunch on the Grass) tracks a famous scientist whose bedrock skepticism (and life) is shattered after a UFO encounter. [Watch]
London’s Untold Studios just leaped onto the world-wide VFX radar nailing the chance to work with Blink director Dougal Wilson and create a loveable dragon named Edgar for this year’s John Lewis Christmas epic. [Watch]
Kevin the Carrot is back for another Aldi holiday adventure courtesy of Stink directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick with animation/VFX by Psyop and cheeky references to Peaky Blinders, A Christmas Carol, and The Greatest Showman. [Watch]
Following on their 2018 breakout music video for virtual K-pop girl group K/DA, League of Legends enlists UK animation house The Line to make lightning strike twice – this time with a hip-hop-inspired group called True Damage. [Watch]
The all-Paris team of director Akama, prodco Wizz, and 3D specialists NKI (who created this comic treat for Renault) are back with more brilliant CG character work – this time for French ethical egg producer Poulehouse. [Watch]
Milan motion studio Ditroit promoed the Digital Design Days 2019 festival in their home town with this elegant CG experiment which they say “represents the contamination of ideas through creativity.” [Watch]
Dutch fractal artist Julius Horsthuis’ describes his latest opus as “extremely noisy and incredibly vague,” but the resulting clip is a taut and haunting abstraction that feels like a WIP for the opening titles of a very dark TV series. [Watch]
Director Nina Gantz and the Blinkink crew team with acclaimed puppeteer Josie Corben (Isle of Dogs) on this dreamlike stop-motion fantasy to launch a new range of fashion and accessories from Spanish luxury brand LOEWE. [Watch]
After a stellar festival run (150 selections and 46 awards), directors Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, and Oscar Malet unveil their CG comedy about a back-country ski rescue gone very, very wrong. [Watch]
“It was a great experience thinking about where not to use VFX,” says Framestore VFX super Jordi Bares about this breakout work for The Wall Street Journal created on a short timeline with MJZ director Juan Cabral thru The&Partnership. [Watch]
If you’re a fan of code-driven visuals then you know about director Raven Kwok and his break out work for Max Cooper’s “Rule 110” music video – which means you’ll want to watch his latest, a twisty and hypnotic bit of minimalist maximalism. [Watch]
UK VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective creates a cast of toys and tchotchkes revealing the hard truth about a family’s home in IKEA’s first Christmas spot courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and Mother London. [Watch]
