Post house Company 3, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., recently provided a variety of postproduction services to its first game project, “Call of Duty๏ฟฝ: Black Ops II,” and concurrently announced the opening of a division dedicated to offering color grading and other high-end post services to the game production community.
“The creation of Company 3 Games represents a new level of collaboration between game developers as well as publishers and providers of feature film-level post services,” said Stefan Sonnenfeld, president and founder of Company 3. Sonnenfeld, who has color graded assorted feature films and commercials, worked with award-winning game developer, Treyarch, to color grade Activision Publishing Inc.’s next installment of the blockbuster “Call of Duty๏ฟฝ” game franchise, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” set for worldwide release next Tuesday, November 13.
Malte Wagener has been named VP of Games and oversees the division’s work from its offices at Company 3’s Santa Monica headquarters. “With the amazing level of sophistication in games and the immense talent pool in the feature film world, a tight collaboration of the two spheres is a natural development,” he said.
Wagener comes to the position following an extensive career in the video games business. As the director of global business development at Koch Media in Germany, he led that company’s global business development and brand management for products including the international game sensation “Dead Island.” At WEG, a division of CJ Media, in South Korea–the third largest media company on the continent–he led all EMEA gaming efforts, as well as the massive, international eSport cross-promotion known as the World eSport Games.
Wagener added “With the talent and resources of Company 3 and its affiliated companies, we plan to set the new standard for game postproduction.”
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Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
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