Steve Cutts

Steve Cutts is an illustrator and animator based in London England His artwork satirizes the excesses of modern society His style is inspired by 1920s cartoons as well as modern comic books and graphic novels In 2012 Cutts created his most popular film MAN which has environmentalist and animal rights themes Created with Adobe Flash and After Effects Cutts describes the film as looking at mans relationship with the natural world In January 2016 a Cutts couch gag for a season 27 episode of The Simpsons featured an homage to 1980s action TV shows such as Miami Vice In October 2016 a Cutts video for the song Are You Lost In The World Like Me from the album These Systems Are Failing by Moby and the Void Pacific Choir addressed smartphone addiction with Max Fleischerinspired animation Moby hired Cutts to create the video after being amazed and blown away by his MAN film The video won the 2017 Webby Award for animation In June 2017 Cutts illustrated another video for Moby and the Void Pacific Choir In This Cold Place from the album More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse Cutts stated that both Moby videos represent consumerism greed corruption and ultimately our selfdestructiveness In 2017 Cutts won the Jury Award at Annecy International Film Festival the highest award which is a qualifying factor to be eligible for nomination at the Academy Awards for the music video Are You Lost in the World Like Me In 2018 for the secondyear running Cutts was the Webby Award Winner in the Film Video Animation Category for original cartoons motion graphics illustrations or digitally animated images premiered on the Internet Cutts made Ridley Scotts curated list of just 12 for the New Directors Showcase at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June 2018 Of the final reel Scott said The range of the work submitted this year has been remarkable Weve taken great care to ensure that the 2018 reel not only reflects great ideas but also considered craft and production Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Cutts licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia