There’s a brand new child on the town—Goldenchild, a brand new studio of multidisciplinary, cutting-edge creators devoted to interactive, modern tasks 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 Government Artistic Director.
“Goldenchild’s dad and mom, Matthew Marquis and Pierre Nobile, and I’ve been mates for some time. It’s an awesome little household,” mentioned Schiedon, who’s carried out quite a few 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 artistic expertise.”
Goldenchild will collaborate with manufacturers, companies, and performing artists at varied phases within the artistic course of. Drawing on the roster’s breadth of experience in the whole lot from conventional stay motion and pictures to animation, CGI, AI, digital actuality and augmented actuality methods, the studio reinvents what’s attainable in model storytelling.
Goldenchild is the invention of Managing Director Matthew Marquis and Government Producer Pierre Nobile, who rapidly tapped Schiedon, an illustrator and graphic designer turned jack-of-all-trades creator, to hitch the group not solely as ECD, however as one of many first administrators on the roster.
“Fons has experience in each sort of media that Goldenchild delivers,” mentioned Nobile. “He’s versatile, curious, and above all, is an incomparable and keen artistic associate when bold tasks are thrown our manner.”
Schiedon’s illustrious profession has included directing music movies for artists like Groove Armada and SBTRKT, creating visuals for Beyoncé, Arcade Hearth, and The Killers, designing for Michelle Obama’s documentary “Changing 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 group round them, lots of whom might be discovered on Goldenchild’s roster.
Goldenchild’s specialised roster contains French director, artist, and designer Hugo Richel recognized for his glossy work with high-fashion shoppers that discover the connection between digital artwork varieties like VR, and nature; Anime-inspired Canadian artistic 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. It’s the lovechild of Golden LA and the longer term.”
Matthew Marquis
