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Inventive studio Gown Code as we speak publicizes the signing of Emmy award-winning director, Daniel Castro to its business roster. The Brooklyn-based expertise brings with him a multimedia strategy to storytelling, incorporating 2D design, cease movement and VFX into his live-action work.
Quickly after graduating from his research in product design, Daniel found he had a expertise for graphics, and began working as a visible designer, freelancing in New York earlier than transferring to San Francisco to work for purchasers together with Pottery Barn, Design Continuum Italia, Sephora, and Brooks Stevens Design. While in San Francisco, Daniel pursued a lifelong need in direction of pictures, and located success working as an advert photographer and rising as a visible artist.
Returning to New York in 2013, Daniel started to experiment with stop-motion animation, relishing within the freedom and alternatives that lie in crafting full narrative movies as a substitute of singular nonetheless moments. In 2014, he based Sky Pie Studio, which turned one of many go-to cease movement outlets within the metropolis. Daniel developed his work into extra reside motion work involving 2D and 3D animation as time went on.
A few of Daniel’s profession highlights embody working with French soccer star Paul Pogba for the Pepsi x KFC Champion’s Problem. The mammoth venture concerned designing and bringing to life a 40 foot Rube Goldberg machine (a chain-reaction sort machine, deliberately designed to hold out a easy job in an overcomplicated or impractical approach), and managing a inventive workforce that spanned throughout 5 international locations. Moreover, Daniel labored very intently with Oatly, directing a number of spots for the model throughout the model’s fast development.
It was in 2021 when Daniel received an Emmy award for the brief movie ‘Quarantined’; made in collaboration with Leverage Dance Theatre and Aligned Media. Filmed as Covid-19 restrictions have been drawing to an in depth, ‘Quarantined’ explores the concept that even inside restriction there exists huge potential.
Daniel’s evolution as a director, step by step embracing new creative mediums together with design, pictures, stop-motion, and VFX and integrating these into reside motion work echoes the event of Gown Code itself. Seeking to the longer term as a part of the studio, Daniel will utilise his bold multi-media strategy alongside Gown Code’s enhanced manufacturing capabilities to create design-focused, compelling promoting.
Daniel Castro, director, Gown Code says: “I’m trying ahead to tackling technical and inventive challenges with the prowess of the Gown Code workforce backing me up. My multi-medium strategy has allowed me to deal with briefs from all kinds of angles – however typically I needed to draw back from the wildest answer due to manufacturing limitations. Now the gloves are off. With Gown Code I can go full tilt.”
Brad Edelstein, Government Producer at Gown Code provides: “Daniel’s visible aesthetic and strategy to tasks aligns so nicely with Gown Code’s model and ethos. Daniel leans closely into using detailed artwork path and he’s actually created an attractive and provoking profession by increasing his observe throughout creative mediums. To go from conventional design, to pictures, to stop-motion, to increasing additional into VFX and permitting all of that to finally complement his reside motion work is simply so spectacular. His ever-evolving and insatiable spirit is inspiring. We’re so excited to have him be a part of the workforce and can’t await what’s subsequent in retailer for him.”
