Framestore has added sr. art director Daniel Pernikoff to its Chicago office team.
Pernikoff has worked in the visual effects and motion industry for over 15 years as an art director, lead compositor, and animator across film, television, and advertising. After starting his career at Digital Kitchen in Chicago, Pernikoff moved to New York where he worked with top studios. He has collaborated on several high profile projects including the Comedy Central rebrand, title sequences and scenes for the best-selling game God of War, the title sequence for AMC’s period drama Hell on Wheels, and led the team in charge of creating animations for an enormous 25k display designed for the launch of one of Microsoft’s flagship stores.
After returning to Chicago, Pernikoff worked with Method, Vitamin, Filmworkers, and most recently Carbon, as well as with brands such as Budweiser, Google, McDonald’s, Nike, and ESPN, among others.
At Framestore Pernikoff will bring his talents to projects across the Integrated Advertising division, working on everything from early creative conception, motion tests, look dev, compositing, in addition to mentoring the creative team.
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
So... Read More