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UMBRA

Design and motion. Two people, both of us on every job, two projects a month. Identity systems, title sequences, launch films.

CROSSROADS · KANSAS CITY, MO

SELECTED WORK · 2023 TO 2026

Selected work

  1. WYANDOTTE RYE

    Rebrand and a fourteen-second pour loop for a KCK distillery. Shelf sales up 22% the next quarter.

    • identity
    • packaging
    • loop
    2026
  2. FIRST LIGHT FEST

    Main-stage titles on a forty-foot LED wall. One ninety-second loop, ran every Friday all summer.

    • titles
    • led-wall
    • event
    2025
  3. PLEXA ROBOTICS

    Two-minute launch film. One robot, one take a day for nine days, no CG doubles.

    • launch-film
    • direction
    • edit
    2025
  4. CICADA SUMMER

    Festival identity with thirteen poster variants, one per brood year. Screen printed at 18th and Oak.

    • identity
    • print
    • system
    2024
  5. RIVER MARKET RADIO

    Six five-second station idents, every one cut to the same drum fill. Still on air.

    • idents
    • motion
    • sound
    2023

THE STUDIO

TWO PEOPLE.
THAT IS THE POINT.

Umbra is Renee Calder, design, and Theo Marsh, motion. We met cutting title cards at a production house on Southwest Boulevard and left together in 2023. No account team, no juniors. The people you meet on the first call are the people who deliver the files.

We take two projects a month and give each one half of everything we have.

Identity systems
Mark, type, color, and the rules to run them without us. From $7,500.
Title sequences and idents
Broadcast, festival, or product. From $3,000.
Launch films
Direction through delivery, sixty seconds to three minutes. From $12,000.
Sites like this one
Designed and built in-house, no template underneath. From $6,000.

OUT OF
THE SHADOW

Tell us what you are launching and when it has to exist. We reply inside two working days, usually faster.

hello@umbra-studio.com

(816) 555-0173 · 1819 Wyandotte St, Kansas City, MO · Tue to Fri, 9 to 5