We are STATE, and we help brands bring strategy to life through design, animation, illustration, motion systems, and live action. We collaborate with teams across campaigns, products, events, social, broadcast, and digital.
Over the years, we’ve partnered with technology, entertainment, and financial brands including Disney, Google, Netflix, Yahoo, Betterment, Dell, and Gusto. Our work ranges from launch campaigns and brand films to large-scale installations and illustrated worlds.
For Intuit, we see an opportunity to visualize what happens when human intelligence and AI work together. Brains, light, and flowing gradients become a visual language for ideas, insights, and smarter decisions, transforming the Sphere into a living expression of intelligence in motion.
Our Jet-Puffed "brain" typography for Sphere is a great reference for how sculptural 3D forms can take over the canvas. For Intuit, we’d bring that sense of dimension and scale to the brain, with light and color tracing the moment information becomes insight.
Jet-Puffed, Sphere, and an audience that understood the assignment.
We handled the s'more-tacular melting of Puff Pal on Sphere. Then Kraft invited the internet to roast, react, and comment.
For Netflix’s “Jupiter’s Legacy,” we pulled out our GC skills and combined them with our love for comics to make those transitions slick. Oh yeah, Superheroes are always the freaking best.
For Legion’s final season, we developed mind-bending Nouveau-60’s visuals that would make your burnt-out uncle, Mitch, flashback so hard.
We were excited to break out our inner trivia nerds to design the world for this game with the team at Netflix Interactive. Working with them, we explored the game's look and designed its backgrounds, UI layouts, and animation loops, bringing the direction together in a teaser. Once approved, we collaborated with Netflix’s engineering team to carry the designs into the final game.
Before the story starts, you need a proper hello. We helped Netflix Animation Studios create an opening ident all their own, bringing a little animation magic to one of the world’s most recognizable brands.
Feelings is a film created for the OFFF Barcelona 2023 Main Titles. Combining organic CG environments with surreal, narrative-driven design, the piece turns abstract ideas and inner states into a visual world. A strong reference for exploring the brain, intelligence, and the flow of ideas through light, form, and motion.
Our work lit up the biggest canvas on Earth, the Sphere in Las Vegas.
We trapped Chester Cheetos inside that massive dome, and he looked so freaking good that we couldn’t resist… we downed 10 bags of Cheetos before the project even wrapped.