Designer Dan Solomon has relocated to Framestore’s Chicago office, which opened back in May. Animator-designer Solomon comes over from Framestore’s NY office. He has over nine years of experience working at various VFX studios in NYC, including Blind, Psyop, and Framestore. He graduated from The School of Visual Arts in 2013 with a degree in Computer Art, Animation, and Visual Effects. He has a diverse skillset, with experience in motion graphics, 3D animation, compositing, photography, web design and web development.
At Framestore, Solomon has worked on several notable design projects including the title sequence for the 2017 Semi Permanent Festival, The New York Times and General Electric’s “The Nature of Industry,” and Dell’s “Tech Stories,” winning a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for GE and gold at the 2017 AEAF Awards for Semi Permanent.
Framestore’s Design Studio is a highly-skilled collective made up of directors, designers and animators who collaborate with clients to deliver beautifully impactful work across all platforms. In addition to Solomon, the Chicago office has also recently welcomed sr. VFX designer Tim Sepulveda.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More