(Santa Monica, California--December 10, 2008) Bully Bros. Post, a new full-service post and visual effects facility in Santa Monica, CA has been opened by Creative Director/Lead Effects Artist Kiki Chansamone and Executive Producer Jason Forest.
The all-new facility, located at Christopher Sliney’s Playground Media Group, will specialize in full-service HD finishing for spots, expert compositing, RED and P2 conversions, 3D previz/storyboarding and on-set vfx supervision. They have special emphasis on end-to-end workflow creation and full visual effects design and supervision for commercials. Chansamone comes to Bully Bros. after nine years as lead Inferno Artist at R!OT in Santa Monica, and Forest is the founder/Executive Producer of TV spot production house Bully Pictures in Marina Del Rey, CA.
The new facility has been hot right out of the gate, finishing campaigns for IW Group (Wal-Mart and Met-Life), DraftFCB (Taco Bell), Bozell/Jacobs (Alegent Health), Ogilvy & Mather (Nature Made), and Chiat/Day (Visa). Chansamone and Forest have been good friends since meeting on a Bacardi campaign several years ago, and that friendship has fueled their special vision for Bully Bros. Post. “We started Bully Bros. Post with the goal of creating a ‘family’ atmosphere, not just for ourselves, but for our clients as well,” Chansamone states. “Artistically and technologically, we want to build a company that is based on working with well-known brands for well-known agencies.”
Bully Bros. Post has the talent. Chansamone, a professional artist his entire adult life, began his career as a penciler at Marvel Comics at age 18. After studying at UCLA, he joined Modern Videofilm in 1996, doing rotoscope work on animated shows such as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, later becoming a lead artist on TV’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer. He joined R!OT in 1999, working on features such as Armageddon, Species, and Mortal Kombat, as well as building a loyal following of high-profile TV commercial clients that included Microsoft, UPS, Geico, Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, and Taco Bell. Partner Jason Forest was a freelance producer in commercials and music videos for a decade before starting his own commercial production company, Bully Pictures. He brings soup-to-nuts experience from pre-production through finishing to the new entity.
The company’s other partners are rounded out by Sara Barnthouse and Gaelon Swift. Barnthouse was a producer/rep at Jigsaw Editorial and brings a unique combination of post-production and marketing experience in a forever-changing environment. “I am really excited about what Sara offers our company,” Forest says. “She brings a very thoughtful and personalized approach to marketing and is really well respected in the advertising and offline communities.” Chansamone and Forest refer to Gaelon Swift as their “resident genius.” Swift has been responsible for engineering nearly every technological system for the company and continues to help keep Bully Bros. on the cutting-edge as new shooting and finishing formats hit the marketplace.
“We’re not just a finishing house; from storyboard to delivery, we can do everything at the Playground,” says Chansamone. “Because of our experience with effects supervision, we can work with agencies to cover everything from assisting on conceptual design, to working with creatives and directors to help determine the best ways to approach vfx shots. We also shoot second unit for green screen, as well as production and capture for effects-oriented projects. For us, it’s all about being involved as early in the pipeline as possible.”
“When you come from the kind of art background that Kiki does, you’re not just working with a technician,” adds Forest. “Technology changes almost on a weekly basis, and spots need a lot more care and finessing in the post process, especially when working with new file-based workflows such as those from the RED, Genesis, and Viper camera systems. We feel we can offer clients faster, more efficient work-throughs that go beyond the standard procedures. It’s our job to come up with the solution to any challenge.”
As they continue to expand their client roster and services offered, Chansamone, Forest, and Sliney will continue to strategize on how to create the ultimate post experience for clients, already having the pre-requisites--talented artists, great attention to detail throughout the process, the ability to package an entire job start to end, the latest in finishing technology, a lofty, contemporary and comfortable atmosphere, all the cappuccinos you can drink, plenty of parking, and a pool table and ping-pong beckoning while you wait for dubs in any format. “Christopher Sliney at Playground is really our fifth partner. Without his cooperation and collaborative ideas, we never could have accomplished what we have so quickly,” Forest states. “We look forward to continue growing symbiotically and seeing what we can all accomplish together.”
www.bullybrospost.com
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