Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
Director/animator Elyse Kelly’s latest visual story for The Atlantic wraps the issue of how social media companies handle censorship and free speech in a wonderfully fluid and allegorical style. [Watch]
London 3D artist and motion designer Peter Tomaszewicz follows up his striking 2018 film “Silent Aesthetics” with a more vibrant collaboration called “The Woven Exhibitionist” with designer Martina Spetlova at sustainable fashion brand MWoven. [Watch]
The animation directing team Illogic broke wide in 2017 with their extraordinary (and Oscar-nominated) CG grad film “Garden Party.” Their follow up project “Maestro” expands the cast beyond amphibians but retains all the craft and careful detail of their debut. [Watch]
Spanish animator/illustrator Cristóbal Vila uncovers the intricate beauty of life by dissecting geometric concepts including polygonal tessellation, the golden angle, Islamic tiling, and the four nitrogenous bases of DNA. [Watch]
Japanese director/animator Hideki Inaba, who jumped onto the Stash radar back in 2015 with this breakout piece, returns with a new video showcasing his signature brand of hypnotic CG complexity called “Tape” for Swedish duo Canigou. [Watch]
Thanks to the scale and emotion of this Toyota spot from director Rune Milton (with VFX by Copenhagen’s TGBVFX and Mikael Balle VFX), UK teen Lilly Rice’s quest to boost the profile of WCMX (wheelchair motor cross) just leaped into the mainstream. [Watch]
The all-Dutch team of photographer Rein Janssen, special effects artist Erik Voors, and copywriter Pieter van den Heuvel pool their talents for this Greenpeace spot – a stark and poetic ode to our dwindling love for fossil fuels. [Watch]
The first third of this music video by director Ian Pons Jewell (for UK musician/comedian Beardyman) is good fun but then at the 1:40 mark – thanks to the VFX crew at ETC – it turns into one of the most intense Pinocchio parodies of all time. [Watch]
Russian animation studio Petrick leans into the task of reimagining Moscow’s coat of arms by inviting fellow artists and animators to have fun with the dragon-slayer imagery which traces back 1,000 years to the founding of the city. [Watch]
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2020 Season takes dramatic shape in six striking CG films set to music hand-picked by ACO musicians and created by Substance in Sydney in concert with an international cast of design directors. [Watch]
Berlin-based Taiwanese director/animator Cheng-Hsu Chung lets loose with an eruption of quasi-NSFW animation for Sacramento band !!! (Chk Chk Chk) that one YouTube commenter refers to as an “Adventure Time porn parody if I were on acid.” [Watch]
Generating excitement and anticipation for fans year after year is job one for sports networks and sometimes that requires sheer scale and ambition, like say where ESPN Creative Services and Troika went with this re-brand for SEC Network. [Watch]
Blinkink directing duo Stevie Gee & Essy May channel the spirit of golden-age animation god Tex Avery to punch this campaign for “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” out of the crowded videogame market by layering crazed 2D over gameplay footage. [Watch]
Time to celebrate Labor Day with a bottle of wine and some light-hearted mayhem courtesy of directors Giulia Martinelli, Marta Gennari, and their graduation film “Merlot” created at the CSC National Film School in Turin, Italy. [Watch]
