Bryan Godwin To Head Pixomondo’s L.A. Studio
Pixomondo, the Oscar and Emmy-winning visual effects and virtual production company, has hired VFX veteran Bryan Godwin as head of studio for its Los Angeles facility.
Pixomondo has eight global offices, including Los Angeles which also serves as headquarters for the group. Godwin will build on Pixomondo’s success on the West Coast, which includes such recent feature film and TV projects as Raised By Wolves, Perry Mason, Westworld, The Orville, Goliath, Greenland and Midway.
Godwin brings with him two decades of business and artistic experience at Shade VFX, which he founded in 2009, and more recently at DNEG in Los Angeles. Godwin’s VFX supervisor credits include Joker, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Wolverine. Under his leadership, Shade won an Emmy for its work on Westworld and Godwin was personally Emmy-nominated for his work on Daredevil.
Over the years, Pixomondo and Shade have worked on many of the same projects, including Westworld, Here & Now, Marco Polo and the feature films Live By Night and Justice League. Both companies earned separate Emmy nominations for their work on Westworld.
The addition of Godwin comes just as Pixomondo opens its first virtual production studio and LED volume in Toronto, with plans underway to open other facilities across North America, Europe, and China.
Upcoming Pixomondo projects include the Roland Emmerich film Moonfall, the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse, actor David Oyelowo’s feature directorial debut The Waterman, season 3 of The Orville, and the fourth seasons of Goliath and Star Trek: Discovery.
Hue&Cry Adds Trish Janovic, Luis Roca
Richmond, Va.-based animation and design studio Hue&Cry has hired Trish Janovic as sr. designer and Luis Roca as art director.
Janovic joins Hue&Cry from Facebook where she worked as a designer and illustrator for two years. Prior, she spent three years at production studio Scholar after having kicked off her career at Logan NY where she designed styleframes for multiple VFX projects. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), she embarked on a career which took her from New York to San Francisco. She has collaborated with an array of national brands, producing designs and illustrations for Target, Oreo, and Fila to name a few.
Roca’s hire marks a reunion with current Hue&Cry creative director Matt Darnall, who had made the move to the studio from The Mill/Chicago last fall. Working on the design team at The Mill, Roca is a multidisciplinary creative bringing 10+ years of visual experience to Hue&Cry. He developed his career in the trenches of advertising working for JWT and Saatchi & Saatchi in his hometown of Guatemala City, where he found his passion for motion graphics. A SCAD alum like Janovic, Roca, following his M.A. in Motion Graphics, moved to Chicago and worked as a designer for Digital Kitchen. Through Digital Kitchen, his experience ran from illustration, graphic and UI design, to experiential design and conceptual development. Roca has designed and developed artwork for clients such as Cosmopolitan, Channel, Visa, Starbucks, State Farm, The Venetian, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tigo, and many others.
Upcoming at Hue&Cry, Janovic and Roca are working on projects for Neutrogena with DDB/NY and Salesforce.
Amid the unforeseen realities of COVID over the past year, animation has played a pivotal role in the production and content creation world. Deftly shifting in navigating workflows and production innovation during the pandemic quarantine orders, Hue&Cry efficiently developed a multi-faceted approach allowing continued growth in its clientele and capabilities including live action production and stop-motion animation that complement an already accomplished 2D and 3D motion design reel. Last year alone, the team created work for brands including Zillow, Chase, Capital One, Virginia Lottery and Disney+.
