Inside View: Douglas Sloan
Markee: What is the focus of Icontent?
Mr. Sloan: “My forte as a director is in the documentary realm, and our core strength as a company is storytelling. We were early pioneers of digital content and longer-form pieces and launched Icontent in 2001 to leverage our strength in that area and merge it with our TV commercial business. Icontent operates in parallel with the passion work I direct for Icontent Films.”
Inside View: Big Machine
Steve Petersen, Co-founder/Creative Director – Big Machine Design • Burbank, Calif.
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Cartoon Lagoon Studios released its Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon DVD earlier this fall. Markee 2.0 interviewed partner Pat Giles about this new MST3K-like project and the future of the studio.
Read more...Inside View: Xander™
“I joined East Pleasant from JWT and immediately started working on some programming for Madison Square Garden Network (MSG), including Emmy Award-winning NYC Soundtracks, a documentary-style show about subway musicians. Then I started to apply the TV aspects of production to the commercial work we were doing at East Pleasant, and it worked right off the bat.”
Read more...Inside View: Giovanni Bucci
“I’m half-Italian and half-Dutch. I started working in Italy, then I went to London and LA, and I’m actually spending more time in LA these days. Usually I’m directing and putting everything together for a project – a lot of times I’m doing the editing and motion graphics."
Read more...Inside View: Stun Creative
“We began with one Avid bay and us writing and directing everything, then built up the company organically. We added Buster, a motion graphics/animation/design shop, and about a year ago started Buster Ink, our print/outdoor/digital division. Now we produce cross-platform campaigns and services from concept through production, graphics, outdoor, print and digital."
Read more...Inside View: DUCK Studios
DUCK opened 41 years ago as the animation studio Duck Soup. It rebranded as DUCK Studios, an animation/design studio creating commercials, music videos, short films and web content, about eight years ago.
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