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RazPR Learned to Speak Robot Before Hollywood Needed a Translator
Karen Raz built a boutique agency around a stubbornly useful skill: translating technical breakthroughs into stories that creative people actually want to hear. Nearly three decades later, the niche has become the center of media and entertainment.
Ballast and the case of the floating handcuffs
A backyard pool, a World Cup explosion and Dolly Parton’s family album reveal how this creative studio turns a visual idea into something an audience can believe.
Below The Radar made the crowd bigger. The studio stayed small.
A Santa Monica effects boutique filled digital stadiums, built a car commercial inside a computer, and repaired a location after demolition. Its most interesting production decision was how little company it wanted to become.
Bubba’s LA knows how to move a pickle
A dancing pickle, a robot filming sneakers, and a cartoon with a devastating turn: inside the small motion studio that changes its methods to fit the story.
We Are Royale makes ads you can play inside
A fake travel agency. Real estate for Warcraft. The creative studio behind them has a practical theory of fandom: give people something worth doing, and the advertising gets a lot more interesting.
SACII takes on the hardest part of creativity: getting paid
In South Africa, a township-based incubator puts business coaching, production tools and industry connections within reach of creative entrepreneurs. Its real test begins when the training ends and the invoices should start.
The Software Behind the Shot You Swore Was Real
Foundry turned an in-house compositor and a collection of studio-born tools into the plumbing of modern visual effects. Its next act is a trickier one: adding AI and real-time production without breaking the pipelines artists already trust.
Luma AI Wants You to Direct, Not Just Prompt
Luma has grown from a five-second video curiosity into a serious creative workbench. Ray3.2 gives filmmakers real control, while the credit meter gives everyone a reason to plan before pressing generate.
Brian Fox Left the Edit Bay. He Never Stopped Thinking Like an Editor.
Before Brian Fox marketed visual-effects software, he used it against deadlines. Now the Boris FX CMO and Sapphire product manager argues for something refreshingly practical: faster tools, wider hardware choice, and fewer obstacles between an artist and the frame.
Boris FX Bought the Boring Parts of Hollywood - and Built a Creative Software Arsenal
For 30 years, Boris Yamnitsky has collected the unglamorous tools that make glamorous images possible. The result is a private software portfolio that sits inside Hollywood's favorite workflows - from a disappearing wire to a repaired soundtrack.
Jon Karafin Wants Light to Stop Behaving Like a Picture
Before he built displays that turn photons into objects, Jon Karafin made a two-ton sculpture run on living yeast. His career is a study in what happens when an artist's appetite for wonder meets an engineer's refusal to hand-wave the physics.
The Invisible Business Behind Hollywood's Most Visible Worlds
Crafty Apes built a global VFX company by making its best work disappear into the story. Now the studio is pairing its compositing roots with CG, machine learning, and virtual production - while Hollywood asks vendors to do more, faster, across more places.
Visinema
Visinema is a Jakarta-based integrated entertainment and intellectual-property company founded in 2008 by director Angga Dwimas Sasongko and producer Anggia Kharisma. It produces award-winning Indonesian films, animated features and series, and builds long-lived IP franchises - including Keluarga Cemara, Filosofi Kopi, Nussa and the record-breaking animated hit Jumbo - across cinema, streaming, licensing and consumer experiences. The company positions itself as a storytelling powerhouse aiming to make Indonesian creative work competitive with Hollywood and Korea.
Higgsfield AI
Higgsfield AI is a San Francisco-based generative AI company that builds professional video and image creation tools for creators, marketers, and enterprise teams. Founded in October 2023 by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, the platform offers Cinema Studio, Lip-Sync Studio, and a suite of AI models (Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1) for producing cinematic-quality content. The company reached $200M annualized revenue run rate within 9 months of launch, achieved unicorn status at a $1.3B valuation in January 2026 after raising $80M in a Series A extension led by Accel, and hosts 25 million users across 240+ countries generating 4.5 million videos per day.