Independent practice / Fort Worth, Texas

Film · Design · Technology / 2016—2026

ColtonBatts

Images with consequence.
Systems with a point of view.

A dark house at night; one window glows red, a white cloth form hangs in the yard.
Suburban GothicStudy No. 01 / Fort Worth, TexasArchive / 2021
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Selected art / 24 frames

Art
first.

6 of 24, ordered by how they landed. The full archive and the captions live in the art index.

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A dark house at night; one window glows red, a white cloth form hangs in the yard.
01 Suburban Gothic 2021
A street lamp with a red bulb on a foggy night, a draped white cloth figure standing beneath it.
02 365 / 256 2021
A hand reaching up into a cloud of glowing sparks in near-darkness, gold and bronze tones.
03 365 / 231 2021
A low red-lit building reflected in standing water at night, red signage doubled in the reflection.
04 Untitled, 2021 2021
A storefront at night with a red door panel and white light, a white cloth figure floating above the roofline.
05 365 / 253 2021
The silhouette of a tree and a flock of birds against a pale sky, a red glow at its base.
06 Untitled, 2021 2021

Selected work / 02 studies

Selected
work

Commercial film, motion systems, and visual identities made to remain legible long after the launch.

01

Shop with Google

Lead Video Editor
30+ Campaign Assets · 2023

02

Nuuly

Video Editor / Motion Designer
Social & Digital Content · 2023

The practice / 03 disciplines

Image.
Sequence.
System.

I move between filmmaking, graphic design, and software because the most interesting work rarely stays inside one medium.

Figure in a white shirt with a vermilion beam crossing their eyes
Everything is material / everything is edited
  1. 01

    Film & Motion

    Editorial, campaign film, kinetic type, and motion systems.

  2. 02

    Design

    Art direction, identity, launch graphics, and production frameworks.

  3. 03

    Technology

    Purpose-built software and interfaces for people who make things.

Independent software / Field instruments

Tools for
the work.

ColorWizard interface

01 / beta / macOS

ColorWizard

Spectral color mixing engine for oil painters. Mix pigments on screen the way they behave on canvas.
MagpieApp interface

02 / active / macOS / Windows / Linux

MagpieApp

The Artisan's Blueprint for Modern Embroidery. Transform images into high-fidelity technical patterns for hand-embroidery.

Selected clients / 2022—2026

Google 01Nuuly 02Under Armour 03Kate Spade 04

New business / Selected collaborations

Make something
worth keeping.

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