3D designer/director Gosha (Georgiy Kuznetsov) has joined Method Studios as creative director in Los Angeles. He adds his talent to the company’s eclectic, bicoastal design team guided by executive creative director Jon Noorlander in NY, creating works for major brands and entertainment properties.
Gosha has designed and created standout moving imagery for spots, websites and marketing campaigns, and has created content for Apple, Facebook, Oreo, Campbell’s Soup, IBM, Lexus and other top brands. He was most recently design director at ManvsMachine. Prior to that he was a motion graphics designer and 3D artist at Hue and Cry and The Martin Agency.
Stuart Robinson, Method Studios’ MD and EVP, North American Advertising Production, said, “Gosha is a fine artist at heart but also totally versed in CG pipelines, look dev, lighting and animation. That mix of traditional design and VFX knowledge makes for fantastic client engagements and conversations; he not only sees the path from vision to execution, he has his own vision as well. Gosha’s work is fantastic, and his talents are a great fit for this team.”
Method’s design team in New York and Los Angeles has created work for Facebook, Apple, GE, Ford, Nike and other brands, title sequences for 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2, Netflix’s Godless, FX Network’s American Horror Story, original animated shorts and more.
Snubs and Surprises In Oscar NominationsÂ
In one of the more wide-open Oscar fields in recent history, there were plenty of nominations surprises Thursday. Not too long ago, it seemed that people like Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman were destined for best actress nominations, while general audience disinterest in the young Donald Trump movie "The Apprentice" might have indicated its awards chances were dead on arrival. But the members of the film academy had something different in mind. Here are some of the biggest snubs and surprises from the 97th Oscar nominations. SURPRISE: Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan, "The Apprentice" The young Trump movie "The Apprentice" has been one of the bigger awards season question marks, especially after it failed to resonate with moviegoers in theaters. And yet both Jeremy Strong, for his portrayal for Trump lawyer Roy Cohn, and Sebastian Stan (who was also in the conversation for "A Different Man" ), for playing the future two-time president, made it in. Only Strong got nominated by the Screen Actors Guild. SNUB: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, "Hard Truths" This will forever be one of the more confounding awards season oversights. Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivered one of the all-time great performances in Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths," as the perpetually aggrieved and sharp-tongued London woman Pansy. The general thinking is that it was either going to be Jean-Baptiste or Fernanda Torres, and Torres got in for the equally beloved "I'm Still Here." SNUB: Pamela Anderson, "The Last Showgirl" This is perhaps up for debate, but there was certainly a lot of goodwill behind Anderson's movie-star turn in Gia Coppola's "The Last Showgirl," especially considering her SAG nomination. But like with Jennifer Lopez and... Read More