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Our second collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco took us on an intimate journey to artist studios in Clear Lake and New Mexico, and behind the scenes at the de Young Museum.

With a background in advertising creative direction, writing, and live action directing, Kristen Steele Lewis combines a deep curiosity about business and culture with an appreciation for the small, strange things that make us human.

Bay Area–born and raised, Gabby’s origin story as a theater kid with “drama class trauma” and creative DNA makes her the kind of producer every project needs: someone who thrives at the intersection of artistry and execution.

Designing and building custom studio sets isn’t something we get to do every day—but when Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams came to us with that exact ask, we were all in.

Hey, look what we got up to last year. Thank you to all of our clients and creative community for making it such a productive and exciting 2024!

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From FADE IN to FADE TO BLACK... Adobe is with you, the filmmaker, every step of the way. We teamed up with Adobe Studio to bring this 30 second 'Ode to filmmaking' to the big screen at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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For proof that nature is a powerful healing force, look no further than Gold Star Peak just outside of Anchorage, AK.

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Skycar Creative is officially ten years old this fall. At 6:15am on September 15, 2014 Aaron and Jane officially launched the company and moved into our HQ in Point Richmond, CA. We’re so grateful to be here still, and well aware that it's because of all of our wonderful clients and creative community. Thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far!

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With the help of jibs, dollies, and probe lenses we helped visualize breaking out of the “black box” of user experience data for Amplitude. Watch how we brought light into the darkness.

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Here’s another crazy cool batch of generativeAI features that we helped Adobe announce recently. With an insane turnaround time, we shot a heist-type film scene to show off what the new tools will do. Fellow filmmakers should appreciate some of the quick new ways you can now actually ‘fix it in post’.

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No matter how futuristic Adobe’s new digital tools get, the soul of these products remains rooted in tangible art. To celebrate the one year anniversary of Adobe’s Generative Ai tool, Firefly, we mixed the future with the past and sprinkled in a solid helping of fun.

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The good folks at the California Academy of Sciences came to us with a challenge: ‘How can we shake things up for our annual Gala event video as we raise funds for our Thriving California program.’ Well, after a trip to Mars and back, we think we did just that.

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Before looking ahead, here’s a quick smattering of projects we got to jam on last year. Thanks to all for your collaboration!

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Need just the right sprinkling of blockchain in your enterprise? Here’s our illustrated animation for Bastion that shows how to make it happen.

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