Pixeldust Studios, a multi-award winning digital animation and broadcast design studio, was retained by Weinberger Media Partners to create and produce original animations that were featured within a recently aired Discovery TV special entitled “Nuclear Nightmare: Japan In Crisis.” Ricardo Andrade, President and Creative Director, Pixeldust Studios, made the announcement.
To view Pixeldust Studios’ animation work that was featured within this special TV presentation, please see:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/nuclear-nightmare-japan-in-crisis-nuclear-meltdown.html
Said Mr. Andrade, “For this project, we recreated, using 3D animation, the complex of nuclear power plant buildings that were crippled in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami. We used animations to illustrate the ‘how’ and ‘why’ the reactor began to leak, as well as how radioactivity injures people. The animation also helped depict the evolving ‘day by day’ crisis that was taking place inside and surrounding the Fukushima nuclear reactor after the events of March 11.”
Hosted by Paula Zahn and produced by Scott Weinberger and Scott Sternberg, “Nuclear Nightmare: Japan In Crisis” was a documentary project in which people who worked at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan shared their personal stories on camera. Weinberger and his Weinberger Media team were also able to find and interview an American who was at the nuclear plant at the time of the accident, as well as a film crew that was shooting there when the tsunami hit.
About PIXELDUST STUDIOS
Pixeldust Studios LLC is an Emmy and Telly Award winning digital animation and broadcast design studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to create innovative animations and motion graphic design for major broadcast and cable television clients. The company also provides these services to its Non-Entertainment clientele.
Pixeldust Studios, which has delivered hundreds of hours of broadcast animation to its clients, specializes in combining proprietary techniques with world-class creative talent to develop character animation, visual effects, motion graphics, and digitally animated sequences seen within television series, specials, mini-series, documentaries, docu-dramas, and reality programming, as well as within on-air promotional campaigns.
Founded in 2004 by Creative Director Ricardo Andrade, Pixeldust Studios is based in Bethesda, MD (in the Greater Washington, D.C., area) and in New York City. Andrade, a multi-award winning designer, and his company are highly regarded for their work.
The company’s entertainment industry clients include Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Military Channel, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Television, NBC News, PBS, A&E, History Channel, NOVA, National Geographic International, NHNZ, Speed Channel, True TV, “Frontline,” Spike and the Smithsonian Network.
Among the Non-Entertainment clients which had been serviced by Pixeldust Studios are facets of the U.S. Government, Cornell University, the British Museum of London, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, among others.
Pixeldust Studios is headquartered at 4350 East-West Highway, Suite # 350, Bethesda, MD, 20814. The phone is 301/656-0050. The company’s Manhattan office is located at 584 Broadway, Suite # 612, NY, NY 10012, and the phone is 646/476-2053. For more info, please see: www.pixeldust.tv
