Rough Cut

Coat of Arms

"The rough cut is where the magic happens." We all experience struggles with being creative, believing in ourselves, and finding the best language to share our ideas. There's an infinite battle between the concept in our minds and what gets put to paper. This short is all about the creative process, and how vulnerable we are as artists.

Because this is a universal experience, we connected with friends from around the world and enlisted their help in telling this story. Oh, and we also used their true voices in the voiceover.


Here's to the artists! Here's to the creative process. Here's to the rough cut!

Rough Cut

Coat of Arms

"The rough cut is where the magic happens." We all experience struggles with being creative, believing in ourselves, and finding the best language to share our ideas. There's an infinite battle between the concept in our minds and what gets put to paper. This short is all about the creative process, and how vulnerable we are as artists.

Because this is a universal experience, we connected with friends from around the world and enlisted their help in telling this story. Oh, and we also used their true voices in the voiceover.


Here's to the artists! Here's to the creative process. Here's to the rough cut!

Rough Cut

Coat of Arms

"The rough cut is where the magic happens." We all experience struggles with being creative, believing in ourselves, and finding the best language to share our ideas. There's an infinite battle between the concept in our minds and what gets put to paper. This short is all about the creative process, and how vulnerable we are as artists.

Because this is a universal experience, we connected with friends from around the world and enlisted their help in telling this story. Oh, and we also used their true voices in the voiceover.


Here's to the artists! Here's to the creative process. Here's to the rough cut!

Styleframes

Style

Exploration


Here are a few style explorations from the start of this collaborative project with friends. Be sure to check out the Behance for a much more in depth review of the process with images and WIP videos.

Styleframes


Here are a few style explorations from the start of this collaborative project with friends. Be sure to check out the Behance for a much more in depth review of the process with images and WIP videos.

Behind the Shield

With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.


Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.

Please. Thank you. And godspeed.

Behind the Shield

With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.


Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.

Please. Thank you. And godspeed.

Behind the Shield

With open hearts and a lens focused on education,

we share these project files and details with you, our community,

so that you may glean from them something inspirational.


Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.

Please. Thank you. And godspeed.

Credits

Credits

Credits

Creative Directors & Producers:

Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque


Writer:

Clara Lehmann


Design Director:

Ryan Butterworth


Editor:

Jonathan Lacocque


Sound Designer:

Sarah Webb


Additional Design Exploration:

Chris Moberg


Voiceover:

Aaron Ray, Amy Butterworth, Charlie Butterworth, Clara Lehmann, Friedrich Detering, Jonathan Lacocque, Lola Butterworth,

Lucy Lacocque, Mantas Gr, Nidia Dias, Nuria Boj, Oliver Butterworth, Pablo Lozano, Ricardo Nilsson, Ryan Butterworth, Sophia Lacocque, Steve Savalle

1 - Bubbling Spheres

Ryan Butterworth


2 - Exercise & Ice Cream:
Illustrator: Nuria Boj,

Animators: Arm Sattavorn, Nuria Boj, and Romain Loubersanes


3 - Sailer & Siren:
Illustrator: Aaron Ray,

Animators: Aaron Ray, Mantas Gr, and Ryan Butterworth


4 - Wood Cube

Arm Sattavorn


5 - Smoothing Rock

Designer: Ricardo Nilsson

Animators: Arm Sattavorn and Ricardo Nilsson


6 - Rolling Ball

Illustrator: Ana Hill

Animators: Arm Sattavorn and Susanna Basone


7 - Wooden Blocks

Steve Savalle


8 - Cmd+Z

Illustrator: Aaron Ray

Animator: Arm Sattavorn


9 - Teetering

Mantas Gr


10 - Teetering

Ryan Butterworth

Creative Directors & Producers:

Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque


Writer:

Clara Lehmann


Design Director:

Ryan Butterworth


Editor:

Jonathan Lacocque


Sound Designer:

Sarah Webb


Additional Design Exploration:

Chris Moberg


Voiceover:

Aaron Ray, Amy Butterworth, Charlie Butterworth, Clara Lehmann, Friedrich Detering, Jonathan Lacocque, Lola Butterworth,

Lucy Lacocque, Mantas Gr, Nidia Dias, Nuria Boj, Oliver Butterworth, Pablo Lozano, Ricardo Nilsson, Ryan Butterworth, Sophia Lacocque, Steve Savalle

1 - Bubbling Spheres

Ryan Butterworth


2 - Exercise & Ice Cream:
Illustrator: Nuria Boj,

Animators: Arm Sattavorn, Nuria Boj, and Romain Loubersanes


3 - Sailer & Siren:
Illustrator: Aaron Ray,

Animators: Aaron Ray, Mantas Gr, and Ryan Butterworth


4 - Wood Cube

Arm Sattavorn


5 - Smoothing Rock

Designer: Ricardo Nilsson

Animators: Arm Sattavorn and Ricardo Nilsson


6 - Rolling Ball

Illustrator: Ana Hill

Animators: Arm Sattavorn and Susanna Basone


7 - Wooden Blocks

Steve Savalle


8 - Cmd+Z

Illustrator: Aaron Ray

Animator: Arm Sattavorn


9 - Teetering

Mantas Gr


10 - Teetering

Ryan Butterworth

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© 2025 Coat of Arms. All rights reserved.

© 2025 Coat of Arms. All rights reserved.