JOE TUT is an internationally-recognized, award winning motion graphics and video art studio. Our digital graphics work - particularly GIF animations - have been featured by VICE Magazine’s Best of the Year list, Tumblr’s Staff Picks, and other major publications.
As of 2023, JOE TUT’s video artwork on GIPHY have been viewed and shared over 50 Million times, and other projects have received hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Our work has also been exhibited in museums, music festivals worldwide, including Dillon Francis’ concert tour in South Africa (2015), CHART Art Fair in Denmark (2016) and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis (2012).
Check out a few samples of our video and animation work below!
FEATURED NEW PROJECT
Official Music Video for “Get Free” by TapRoots (2024)
In 2024, JOE TUT directed and animated the official music video for the song “Get Free” by Latin-Fusion band TapRoots.
After developing the cover artwork for the band’s political anthem “Get Free”, the video was produced from an original story of an animated society transcending from confusion to clarity as the people join together to overcome their differences and raise up their community.
“There was so much fun and challenge working through everything, but it's especially fun going back to see how the earliest pieces of the puzzle came to be back in May and how I turned that all into the world of dancers and magic that comes out of the final video.”
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Official Music Videos for The Cosmic Factory (2021)
Leading up to their new EP release in Summer 2021, The Cosmic Factory commissioned JOE TUT to produce music videos to promote the album.
JOE TUT directed and animated official videos for the songs “Lifeline” and “Lazyboy”.
For “Lifeline”, the video was directed and animated utilizing archival film footage of American roadtrips and tornado storm safety guides provided by the Prelinger Archives.
For “Lazyboy”, the animated character was developed with live choreography performed and recorded by Ellie Jackson.
Livestream Visuals for Grammy-nominated group FATUM (2021)
Concert Tour Visuals for Solar Circuit (2020)
“Sunsets” Music Video with electronic producer Dan Rourke
“Qualia” for CHART Art Fair in Copenhagen (2016)
Livestream Visuals for electronic performer INVAR
“Supernatural” Music Video with electronic producer Dan Rourke
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Bad Snacks’ YouTube Library Archive (2016-2018)
Between 2016 and 2018, JOE TUT collaborated with electronic music producer Bad Snacks to create illustrative animation graphics to display with a commissioned series of music soundtracks featured by YouTube’s Audio Library (an open-license resource for users to feature music in their video uploads).
As of 2023, this video series has over 175,000 views.
"Watching Joe's creative vision for synthesizing my sounds into moving images was truly such a satisfying experience from my perspective. He was able to consistently bring my music to life in a completely mesmerizing and inimitable way, in addition to being extremely easy to work with and extremely punctual with the delivery.”
Bad Snacks, Producer
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Dillon Francis Concert Tour Visuals, 2014
In 2014 JOE TUT collaborated with TMWRK Management to create a collection of “Lo-Fi Internet” graphics to support EDM artist Dillon Francis’ international concert tour. This collection incorporated the artist’s branding, early emoji graphics and custom artwork, and were displayed at concert performances in major US cities (Washington D.C., New York and Los Angeles) as well as major music festival events in California, Australia and South Africa.
