Doug Robbins, president/executive producer of New York-based production house Zero 2 Sixty, and visual effects designer/editor/director Thor Raxlen have teamed to launch Guerilla FX, an independent design, effects and post finishing company.
The new Manhattan-based venture grew out of a job Robbins and Raxlen collaborated on at Zero 2 Sixty, where the latter artisan is a director. They turned out a Bell South spot which Raxlen helmed. But with Raxlen’s additional expertise in visual effects and editing, he and Robbin found they had the vertical capability of handling not only the production, but also carrying the project through to digital effects and post. The twosome worked so well together that they decided to form Guerilla FX and have since wraped several assignments, including ads for Crayola, MTV, Hamburger Helper and Champs.
Raxlen’s broad-based experience was honed at Chelsea Digital, Chelsea Pictures’ New York-based, in-house post finishing boutique. As head editor/visual effects designer there, he completed effects and editorial work on spots for assorted agencies and clients. Raxlen also directed a number of commercials during his Chelsea Digital tenure, which brought him to Robbins’ attention and led to Raxlen coming aboard Zero 2 Sixty’s directorial roster.
“With the creation of Guerilla FX, Zero 2 Sixty is now in the unique position of being a production company that has effects and editorial in house and can readily package live action with effects,” related Raxlen. “In return, Zero 2 Sixty has already enhanced the volume and flow of work with Guerilla FX. We hope to keep in place relationships that existed with Chelsea Pictures [and other outside houses].”
The Guerilla FX team includes post supervisor Julie Snyder, editors Jeff Um and Linda Peters, designers Dan Shapiro and Alex Topaller, compositor Chris Greene, and 3D artists Steve Sullivan and Jesse Holmes.
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