Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
One of the most delightfully strange music videos we’ve seen in a decade, “Hesperius Draco” was crafted by Seattle CG artist and director Richard Lord for Brussell’s based musician Alessandro Parisi.
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Paris design studio ELMØ conjures a fresh mix of hand-drawn typography and 3D style in this effervescent teaser for the 2019 edition of Motion Motion, which bills itself as “The only French motion design festival for a wide audience.” [Watch]
Creative director John Likens and the MethodMade crew transport viewers to 19th century San Francisco Chinatown in this 90-second, full CG sequence exploring “cultural identity, hard-boiled crime, and martial arts mastery.” [Watch]
The formidable 3D team of Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir are back with an intricate and abstract piece for the London Symphony Orchestra driven by motion capture of the LSO’s music director Sir Simon Rattle. [Watch]
Director Jesper Ericstam and 22-year-old Norwegian data detective (and Tae Kwon Do champion) Mia Landsem celebrate personal freedom and non-conformity as they storm into the dark corners of the web and real life. [Watch]
The Netflix reboot of Carmen Sandiego opens with this captivating action sequence created by Los Angeles design and animation studio Chromosphere who also handled production design for the series. [Watch]
Brazilian fact-checking site Boatos.org and director Leo Drigo recount the remarkable true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a 29-year-old husband and father who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated directors Job, Joris & Marieke bring their skills for snappy narrative and charming CG characters to this anchor spot for Healthspan supplements thru London agency Isobel. [Watch]
In the fourth episode of their passion project Lullaby Theories, creators Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque at Coat of Arms explore the concept of parallel universes with their 5-year old twin daughters. [Watch]
To help celebrate Led Zeppelin’s 50th-anniversary, Nexus directing partners Smith & Foulkes take us on a magical mystery tour of the late 60’s to reveal the intimate relationship between Jimmy Page and his Fender Telecaster. [Watch]
A runaway spring toy and its CG stunt double find their groove with Kool And The Gang’s funk classic “Jungle Boogie” and prove irresistible fun in this theater spot from directing duo Sacred Egg with MPC handling the VFX. [Watch]
Mark Lopez’ ambitious animated documentary “Segregated By Design” reveals the dark history of how federal, state, and local governments unconstitutionally segregated major metropolitan areas in the US through law and policy. [Watch]
The Mainframe crew layers in touches of cel animation to boost the style and action in this CG adrenalin-fest highlighting Honda’s F1 partnership with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. [Watch]
During her senior year at SCAD, director/designer Sofie Lee gave herself the challenge “to create a film that communicated an underlying message, while still allowing the audience to sympathize with the visual portrayal of emotions.” [Watch]
