Blur Studio

It's really awesome to see all of the small studios around the world that are kicking out such amazing work. Blur Studio is an example of just such a company. On the surface they seem to share the philosophy of many similar companies, which is to create game trailers, TV ads and web applications to pay the bills by day, and then to use that money to make amazing Academy Award nominated shorts by night.



However, one read of the company bio, and you'll find that the company also seems to have its priorities much more in order than many of its peer companies. Rather than throwing as many freelance artist at a job as they can until it's done, they seem to instead prefer to hire on full-time people who share a similar vision, and it shows in their work.



It's also really amazing to see the growth in terms of their output. It's somewhat obvious as to which of their works came early in the life of the company, and which came later, with the latest stuff rivaling that of Pixar's shorts.



Do yourself a big favor and swing on over to Blur's Website to see all of their work in action. I've posted the YouTube version of their most recent short, "Gopher Broke," below, but you really need to check out their entire body of work to appreciate just how much they've accomplished in 10 years.

Inspiring in every sense of the word.