Unbiased movie and tv manufacturing firm AGBO has appointed Ian Unterreiner President and Accomplice of its lately acquired digital manufacturing studio VisualCreatures (VC). As well as, the manufacturing firm has opened a brand new motion-capture-enabled sound stage at its downtown Los Angeles artistic campus to accommodate the brand new studio, which focuses on real-time purposes in visible results and animation.
Unterreiner’s appointment will additional VC’s analysis and improvement into digital manufacturing workflows and AI options to supply AGBO and its manufacturing companions with environment friendly, state-of-the-art filmmaking strategies. He’ll report back to AGBO and collaborate with firm co-founders Ryan McNeely and John Cranston on innovation, technique, and artistic deployment.
“Ian joins our group with an abundance of considerate management and imaginative and prescient,” mentioned McNeely. “His ardour for forward-thinking completely aligns with VC & AGBO’s frequent objective of creating the perfect work with the perfect individuals. He will probably be an unbelievable accomplice on our continued path towards creating innovating workflows and game-changing content material.
“Having spent 13 years at Zoic, whose lifeblood is innovation, becoming a member of Ryan, John, and the AGBO group to advance digital manufacturing efforts was a pure development,” commented Unterreiner. “I’m each humbled and privileged to play a task in guiding VisualCreatues’ evolution, whose progress potential is immeasurable.”
“We couldn’t be extra excited to have Ian be a part of the AGBO household as a pacesetter of VC,” added AGBO COO Nick Anglewicz. “He embodies the proper stability of artist champion, futurist, and enterprise pragmatist. Ryan and John are animals of innovation and storytelling, particularly on the frontier of digital manufacturing. Having these capabilities in-house is a large growth for AGBO’s artistic course of and slate and an ideal complement to our enterprise technique.”
The trade veteran brings nearly 20 years of post-production expertise, together with a 13-year tenure at Zoic Studios, the place he most lately served as Government Vice President dealing with company technique and studio oversight throughout the corporate’s Los Angeles, New York, and Vancouver areas. His manufacturing credit embody tasks in movie and tv for studios together with Netflix, Marvel, Paramount, Apple, and Warner Brothers. Unterreiner started his profession helping James Cameron throughout principal pictures and post-production of the characteristic movie Titanic.
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Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
