Larry Cutler
Technical director and cofounder of Baobab Studios

Larry Cutler is the Technical Director and Co-Founder of the interactive animation studio, Baobab Studios, six-time winner of Emmy, Annie and Webby. "Crow: The Legend," a linear animated short film and a VR experience, won the most awards of any program or series, traditional or interactive, animated at the 2019 Emmy Awards. For the first time, Hollywood will take Baobab's VR IP to become a feature film: Roth Kirschenbaum Filmes will adapt "Invasion!", the first interactive Baobab Studios film, into a traditional feature film. "Penguin Random House" has partnered to turn Baobab's "The Magic Paintbrush" into a series of several books, eMacMillan has partnered to turn "Intercats" into a comic book series. Baobab is the first and second Annie of all for Best VR Production. The studio released "Invasion!", "Asteroids", "Jack", "Crow: The Legend", and "Bonfire", in critical and commercial acclaim. The studio's latest work, "Baba Yaga", made its first world premiere at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
Cutler brings a deep technical leadership to the last 20 years in the area of animation creation and development. Larry currently works in the DigitalImaging Technology Subcommittee for the Oscar Award for technological achievement. He was recently the Vice President of Solutions at Metanautix, a big data analysis startup (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to that, Larry spent 10 years at Dreamworks Animation where he was Global Head of Character Technology and held several leadership positions in the areas of character development, workflow animation, rigging, echaracter animation. Larry began his career at Pixar Animation Studios as Technical Director in the films "Monsters S.A.", "Toy Story 2", and "Insect Life". Larry holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.