Larry Cutler
Technical director and co-founder of Baobab Studios

Larry Cutler is the Technical Director and Co-Founder of the six-time Emmy, Annie, and Webby Award-winning interactive animation studio, Baobab Studios. “Crow: The Legend,” both a linear animated short film and a VR experience, won the most awards of any animated program or series, traditional or interactive, at the 2019 Emmy Awards. For the first time, Hollywood will take Baobab's VR IP to become a feature film: Roth Kirschenbaum Films will adapt “Invasion!”, Baobab Studios' first interactive film, into a traditional feature film. Penguin Random House has partnered to turn Baobab's “The Magic Paintbrush” into a multi-book series, and MacMillan has partnered to turn “Intercats” into a comic book series. Baobab has won its first and second Annie Awards for Best VR Production. The studio released “Invasion!”, “Asteroids”, “Jack”, “Crow: The Legend”, and “Bonfire” to critical and commercial acclaim. The studio’s latest work, “Baba Yaga”, had its world premiere at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
Cutler brings profound technical leadership to the field of animation creation and development over the last 20 years. Larry currently serves on the Digital Imaging Technology Subcommittee for the Academy Award for technological achievement. He was most recently the Vice President of Solutions at Metanautix, a big data analytics startup (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to that, Larry spent 10 years at DreamWorks Animation where he was Global Head of Character Technology and held various leadership positions in character development, animation workflow, rigging, and character animation. Larry began his career at Pixar Animation Studios as Technical Director on the films “Monsters, Inc.”, “Toy Story 2”, and “A Bug’s Life”. Larry holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.