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# Curv Studios: Curv Studios. Live Action VFX and Feature Animation.

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## Posts
- [What is The Blues Crab?](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/what-is-the-blues-crab/): An experiment in engaging artists through involvement and how much more they will contribute, how much more anyone in any field will contribute when they truly feel they are part of what’s being produced, and not just a hired hand, dispensable and forgotten.
- [In Shapes Of Sin : Anti-hero’s, Outcasts & Rebels](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/in-shapes-of-sin-anti-heros-outcasts-rebels/): When I was young I endured one failure after another. I skated around C’s, D’s and E’s on report cards from grade school through high school, unable to interest myself in anything I was being taught.
- [The Illusion of Inherent Worth : Loan Sharks & Lemonade](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/the-illusion-of-inherent-worth-loan-sharks-lemonade/): I play a little poker but by no means do I have much skill at it, the card game that is. I do however absolutely love poker as a metaphor for life, as every hand played, or not played, and every gesture symbolic with some corollary in the circumstance of our lives.
- [The Invisible Art : Compositing in Animation](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/the-invisible-art-compositing-in-animation/): The Invisible Art : Legends of Movie Matte Painting is a great ole book which has absolutely nothing to do with this post. Well, except that it refers to Compositing techniques in film which are so well done that the audience miss them altogether.
- [Dustless Digital: Deep Way Down](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/dustless-digital-deep-way-down/): From spring of 2016 until the film’s premiere in Autumn 2018 I was charged with providing all sound and music for The Blues Crab. I worked very closely with director Ari Rubenstein to craft the sound to his vision from my studio ‘Dustless Digital’ in Cambridge, England with the help of two talented musicians, Chris Hooks (guitarist & composer) and Thomas Lydon (composer).
- [Who Are You](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/who-are-you/): “I stretched back and I hiccuped, and looked back on my busy day, eleven hours in a tin pan, god there’s got to be another way” Pete Townsend (The Who).
- [The Artist as a Business, Independent yet Connected](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/the-artist-as-a-business-independent-yet-connected/): Back in 2017 I went to Bournemouth England for my 2nd round at being a guest speaker for the BFX Festival. The prior year I had given a presentation of our work on “Ice Age 5 : Collision Course” (Blue Sky Studios / 20th Century FOX), and this year I had to pitch an idea that had always been, for those who know me well, part of my professional philosophy.
- [The Ghost of Xaos in Bournemouth](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/the-ghost-of-xaos-in-bournemouth/): Back in 2016 my old friend Nicki Morris called me from The Foundry and asked if I’d be interested in representing my company Blue Sky Studios as a guest speaker at Bournemouth, England’s BFX Festival. I jumped at the opportunity as we had just finished the film “Ice Age: Collision Course”, (the 5th in the Ice Age series), and was proud of some compositing tools a colleague and I had developed for the film, whose inspiration had come from tech I’d used at Xaos Inc. nearly 2 decades earlier.
- [No Substitute for the Real Thing](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/no-substitute-for-the-real-thing/): When we travel to new places in the world, most of us at some point will go and 'see the sights'. On my recent trip to New York City... I listened to them. A fascinating sensory experience to concentrate entirely on the complexity of sounds around you as you move through a new place.

## Pages
- [Southern Cross](https://www.curvstudios.com/southern-cross/): On the run across the Southwest, a wary teenage girl and her reckless partner are drawn into a scientist’s race against time when an illegal fracking operation awakens ancient creatures— forcing them to risk everything as the danger they’re fleeing becomes far less than the one they face.
- [Lost in 84](https://www.curvstudios.com/lost-in-84/): Two teenage city boys from Washington D.C. set out for a carefree tubing trip deep into the Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia—only to be swept into a hilarious spiral of wrong turns, sketchy locals, and a descent into the wild that turns their getaway into a darkly comedic coming of age tale
- [Homepage Curvstudios 2025](https://www.curvstudios.com/): The work featured below represents projects created by Curv Studios, as well as work by founder and creative director Ari Rubenstein during his time as an artist and supervisor at leading production companies, including Tippett Studio and Blue Sky Studios.
- [SHAMBHALA](https://www.curvstudios.com/shambhala/): This establishing shot set the stage for an ambitious animated feature film set high up in the Himalayas on the Tibetan plateau. Our hero’s adventure is a magical mystery tour in search of the hidden realm of Shambhala, and what awaits within.
- [ERROR : LOGIC](https://www.curvstudios.com/error-logic-film/): Feeling trapped and restless, a Manhattan professional dreams of escaping the urban rat race.
- [Poncho & Lefty](https://www.curvstudios.com/poncho-lefty/): Outside a desert saloon, Lefty taunts Poncho’s dirty chopper, but his own pristine motorcycle won’t start. Overlooking basics, Lefty learns a lesson in humility, and the value in more than just appearances.
- [Small Blue Shadow](https://www.curvstudios.com/small-blue-shadow/): Feeling trapped and restless, a Manhattan professional dreams of escaping the urban rat race.
- [The Blues Crab](https://www.curvstudios.com/the-blues-crab/): An old gnarled crab tells his story of loss and sorrow, hoping to save a couple of young crabs from the life of blues he’s led.
- [Blog](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/): MEMORIES DREAMS & REFLECTIONS This blog is an opportunity to document and reflect on why we do what we do as artists and craftsmen. To inspire and be inspired by each other on the job and through independent work.
- [Feature Animation](https://www.curvstudios.com/animation/): ReelsReels
- [About Ari](https://www.curvstudios.com/about/): Since the early 1990’s, Ari has been immersed in the arts and technology of CGI (computer graphic imaging). His passion eventually narrowed to focus on visual effects (VFX) for feature films.
- [Curv Productions](https://www.curvstudios.com/curv-productions/): There are stories I want to tell and ideas I need to express, and Curv is the symbol and moniker which I produce these original creative works under.
- [Live-Action VFX](https://www.curvstudios.com/live-action-vfx/): ReelsReels

## Categories
- [Festival & Events](https://www.curvstudios.com/festival-events/)
- [Stories & Reflections](https://www.curvstudios.com/stories-reflections/)
- [The Artist as a Business](https://www.curvstudios.com/the-artist-as-a-business/)
- [Uncategorized](https://www.curvstudios.com/uncategorized/)

## Categories
- [Blog](https://www.curvstudios.com/blog/page_category/demo-blog/)

Ari Rubenstein's books, "ONE SWEET DREAM"  &
"GO WEST YOUNG MAN", can be purchased at https://ar2088.wixsite.com/loansharks