Other Brother

Other Brother is an independent animation and creative production studio based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 2016 by Stuart Bury and Isaiah Powers, it creates commercial campaigns, scientific explainers and original short films through a combination of physical craft and digital animation. Its work spans stop-motion, layered papercraft, puppetry, hand-drawn character animation and mixed media.

Healthcare and pharmaceutical communication form a central part of the studio’s practice. Other Brother translates complex Mechanism of Action and Mechanism of Disease processes into visual stories for patients and broader audiences. Its projects address conditions including generalized myasthenia gravis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and rheumatoid arthritis. Character animation and tactile design help make these subjects approachable while explaining the underlying medical concepts.

From concept to finished animation

The studio’s production services extend from creative development and scriptwriting through storyboards, animatics, fabrication, animation and compositing. Physical production includes character and prop construction, miniature sets, stop-motion photography and live-action puppetry. Digital capabilities include 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics and visual effects. Projects can also extend into illustration and print materials, allowing a campaign’s visual language to carry across video, booklets and trade show assets.

Alongside its medical work, Other Brother produces advertising, broadcast content and event animation for technology, consumer and animal-health brands. Its Google I/O countdown drew on the early video game Tennis for Two, while its Microsoft Windows work combined layered paper models, stop-motion and live-action performers. An animal-health campaign for Bayer used papercraft animation alongside supporting illustration assets.

Original short films provide another outlet for the studio’s approach to materials and character design. Productions such as Catcher and Howl explore handcrafted visual worlds beyond commissioned campaigns. Across these different formats, the studio combines fabrication, performance and animation to shape stories around the needs of each subject, from a scientific explanation to a playful commercial or independent film.