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There’s a brand new child on the town — Goldenchild, a brand new studio of multidisciplinary, cutting-edge creators devoted to interactive, modern initiatives that demand stylistic breadth, heavy-post manufacturing, and hybridized codecs.
Whereas Goldenchild is the affiliate to Golden LA and supported by a lot of the identical firepower, it’s additionally its personal galaxy, boasting a stacked roster of heavily-specialized creators and the versatile management of Dutch-born director, designer and artist Fons Schiedon as Govt Artistic Director.
“Goldenchild’s mother and father, Matthew Marquis and Pierre Nobile, and I’ve been associates for some time. It’s a terrific little household,” stated Schiedon, who’s carried out quite a few initiatives with Golden LA. “This new initiative permits us to work in the best way all of us work finest—flexibly, project-oriented, and utilizing a full vary of inventive know-how.”
Goldenchild will collaborate with manufacturers, companies, and performing artists at varied phases within the inventive course of. Drawing on the roster’s breadth of experience in all the pieces from conventional stay motion and images to animation, CGI, AI, digital actuality, and augmented actuality strategies, the studio reinvents what’s doable in model storytelling.
Goldenchild is the invention of Managing Director Matthew Marquis and Govt Producer Pierre Nobile, who rapidly tapped Schiedon, an illustrator and graphic designer turned jack-of-all-trades creator, to hitch the crew not solely as ECD, however as one of many first administrators on the roster.
“Fons has experience in each kind of media that Goldenchild delivers,” stated Nobile. “He’s versatile, curious, and above all, is an incomparable and keen inventive companion when bold initiatives are thrown our method.”
Schiedon’s illustrious profession has included directing music movies for artists like Groove Armada and SBTRKT, creating visuals for Beyoncé, Arcade Fireplace, and The Killers, designing for Michelle Obama’s documentary “Turning into,” in addition to working with manufacturers like MTV, Motorola, Nickelodeon, XL Recordings, Common Music Group, Samsung, AT&T, Benjamin Moore, Cartoon Community, and Warner Bros.
Nobile and Schiedon first met whereas working collectively on the visuals for the Beyonce Formation World Tour. They hit it off instantly as collaborators and continued to work collectively at Golden LA, forming a like-minded crew round them, lots of whom could be discovered on Goldenchild’s roster.
Goldenchild’s specialised roster contains French director, artist, and designer Hugo Richel identified for his glossy work with high-fashion shoppers that discover the connection between digital artwork kinds like VR, and nature; Anime-inspired Canadian inventive director, Henrique Barone; and Swiss-based Get It, with a specialty in playful, colourful, type-driven movement design and typography.
With this diploma and flexibility of expertise, Goldenchild is ripe with trailblazing potential: “This new firm was created to go after the subsequent, compelling tier of digital work,” stated Marquis. “It’s the lovechild of Golden LA and the long run.”
