Harry Butt
Creative Director
Nexus Design Studio
Direction and animation for a four-part series called Higher Frequencies for ITV's new channel Woo. The episodes are four sound healing sessions; remixing songs from Vegyn, Nina Kraviz, Ashnikko and beabadoobee into a meditation session. Each episode was guided by scientific research into how specific visual movements induce certain states of mind, driving the animation concepts behind each film.
Mixed-technique identity series for US based food delivery app, Creative Direction by Harry Butt at Nexus Design Studio
Nexus Design Studio created nine compelling films, illustrating the unique, visceral sensations evoked by that first delectable bite of food. Each highlighting dishes available through the Postmates app, the campaign showcases the best-of-class merchants, from the fiery thrill of Nashville Hot Chicken to the bouncy world of Boba tea and the serene joy of sushi.
Full credits and write up on It's Nice That.
Airphoria transports players and their friends into a visually immersive Nike Air Max-themed universe within Fortnite. Celebrating all things inflated, we contributed a collection of animations filled with airy colours, continuous motion and perfect loops that can be seen across billboards inside Airphoria. Creative Direction for the animation within the Fortnite world and promotion trailer and teaser.
Direction of a campaign showing off the all natural new Treeflyer running shoes by Allbirds. CGI by Analog Studio
Director: Butt Studio
Production Company: Blink Ink
Executive Producer: Josef Byrne
Producer: Rosanna Morley
CG: Harry Butt, George Dyson, Dexter George, Jess Herrera, Ben Swanwick
2D: Katy Wang, Jade Evans, Hannah Lau-Walker, Connor Campbell
Sound Design: Ewa Paniotowska
Grade: Black Kite Studios Ltd
Special Thanks: Nina Gantz, Ali Little, Jacob Wolf, Liv Taylor
Showing at International Music Video Highlights Program, Vienna Shorts 2021
Three short films and multiple stills formed the campaign for Nike's new Easy-On FlyEase shoe for Kids. Read an in-depth article about the creative process by It's Nice That here.
Production Company: Blinkink
Directed By: Butt Studio
Executive Producer: Clive Olamiju
Producer: Eve Somerville
CG Modelling: Lucy Bradbury
Carolina Carballo
Jordan Carter
Harry Butt
Courteney Morton
Animation: Lucy Bradbury
Joseph Melhuish
VFX Supervisor: Chris Mortimer
VFX / Compositing: Okay Studio
Special Thanks: Emre Samioğlu
Client Credits:
Creative Producer: Leo Becerra
Sr Creative Director: David Frank
Art Director: David Zavertnik
Designer: Kelly Ongkowidjojo
Storyboard Artist: Jordan Domont
DOP: Basil Fauchier
Stills Photographer: Jacq Harriet
Set Design: Matt Jackson
Styling: Anna Trevelyan
Hair: Tina Outen
Makeup: Zenia Jaegger
Movement Direction: Emma Chadwick
Casting: Erin Simon
Post Production: Caffeine Post
Cinematic Intro Trailer for CJ ENM, Korean entertainment & media company behind films such as Parasite.
Director: Butt Studio
Production Company: Blink Ink
Producer: Leah Draws
Executive Producer: Josef Byrne
Composition/Sound Design: Chris Banks
Agency: MMBP & Associates
Animation and stills for Nike Kids' Back to School campaign: a selection of young athletes starting an infinite game of tag.
Working with the European HQ for Nike my work formed part of a global campaign. I developed the art direction and created the animation for the footage of the Nike Young Athlete Laetitia dancing.
Sound design - Joseph Higgins
Directed by Butt Studio and Greedy Goons
Sleeve artwork and centre discs for the Timedance double-vinyl compilation.
As the Art Director for the Timedance record label I have created covers for the various releases over the past few years. Experimental electronic music from artists such as Air Max 97, Batu, Metrist and Laksa is paired with experiments and investigations into abstract digital art.
The identity and illustrations for En Masse festival in rural South Wales. A sustainable focus with an electronic music line up.
Logo developed by Ciaran Birch
I created and directed a campaign for fashion retailer Zalando, designing and building a 3D world as well as directing a photo and video shoot. The product and models from the shoot were placed into the 'Sneakernet' environment, which adapted to the hero product in each scene. Working as an animated and stills campaign it ran across the Zalando homepage for four weeks.
Photographer: Alistair Strong
Additional VFX: Cherry Cherry
Agency: Superimpose
Series of artwork for Bristol based record label Timedance's anniversary world tour.
Commissioned by Bandcamp to try and capture the essence of Experimental music. Here are 4 illustrations for their featured music page 🌪 I designed four temple spaces dedicated to the genre with impossible architecture and fantasy structures. Commissioned by Emma Shore
Centre page poster for Crack Magazine Issue #99 🐉 What does it look like when machine learning becomes human?
Projection visuals for Chloé's Spring 2020 show at the Long Museum in Shanghai. The sequences were created under the theme of Chinese cinematography and projected alongside the catwalk and afterparty.
Agency: Silent Studios
Event Production: Kennedy
Additional VFX: Hayden Martin
Stills created from developing algorithms in an old piece of Windows software that visualises the combinations of mathematical formulas. Any numbers can be used to create unique visuals through this process.
As part of Nike's Tech Collective I was asked to create a short animation to respond to the new TechPack clothing range. I focussed on technology and innovative fabrics through a mixture of high resolution scanning, formula-based image making and 3D animation. The work has gone up in a special exhibition in the NikeTown store throughout late 2018.
Sound Design by Joseph Higgins