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Andrew Knives is a Texas-based motion designer, animator, and visual artist known for creating surreal, cinematic imagery that blends nostalgia, texture, and movement. Drawing inspiration from vintage design, music culture, film, and analog collage techniques, his work combines bold graphic compositions with dreamlike storytelling. With over a decade of experience, Andrew has developed a distinct visual style that merges handcrafted aesthetics with contemporary motion design. His animations often feature layered textures, retro influences, atmospheric landscapes, and unexpected visual narratives that feel both familiar and otherworldly. Working across animation, design, and visual art, Andrew creates immersive worlds that balance mood, emotion, and striking visual storytelling. His work explores the space between the analog and digital, resulting in imagery that feels timeless, transportive, and distinctly his own. Working across animation, illustration, and live visuals, Andrew Knives creates immersive worlds that feel both familiar and elusive. His distinctive style balances warmth and melancholy, often exploring themes of solitude, movement, memory, and wonder through a lens that feels timeless yet contemporary.
Throughout his career, Andrew has worked with a diverse range of clients- from agile startups to Fortune 500 companies- delivering tailor-made solutions that truly resonate with their target audiences. Collaborating alongside world-renowned designers within a leading agency, he has guided high-impact projects from initial conceptualization to final delivery, ensuring utmost quality and design coherence. Andrew Knives has created motion design, animated campaigns, and visual experiences for brands including Gucci, Valentino, Estée Lauder, and ColourPop, as well as live visual content for concerts, tours, and large-scale events. His work spans commercial, editorial, experiential, and entertainment spaces while maintaining a distinctly personal artistic voice.

Gaze captures a quiet moment suspended between earth and sky, where wonder, memory, and possibility drift together with the clouds. This hand-drawn and digitally animated piece focuses on reflection, daydreaming, and the human tendency to search for meaning beyond the horizon. Inspired by the nostalgia of summer afternoons, childhood curiosity, and the feeling of losing track of time while staring into the sky, the artwork explores stillness as a form of escape. It ultimately invites viewers to slow down, look upward, and reconnect with those fleeting moments of wonder that so often disappear beneath the noise of everyday life.
illustration
portrait
01:00
2026