One Red Room, a new digital animation and production company co-founded by Sim City video game producer Matthew Thornton, opened for business in Los Angeles. The company is already rolling with production of Shane’s Kindergarten Countdown, a new animated series for Disney Channel’s Playhouse Disney block.
Shane’s Kindergarten Countdown will air each weekday morning as part of Disney Channel’s new hour-long Breakfast with Bear block, debuting on Monday, June 20, at 7 am ET/PT. The show, designed to help children prepare for school each morning, is a spin-off of the Playhouse Disney series, Shanna’s Show, which One Red Room also produces.
Exec produced by Thornton, both Disney Channel series are directed by One Red Room co-founder Christopher Hamilton, who also provides art, storyboard and animation direction.
Located in a converted Spanish-style bungalow in Toluca Lake/Burbank, California, One Red Room offers a combination of production management, design and 2D/3D digital animation through postproduction. The company provides animation services for television, computer games, features, DVD, web and wireless, completely produced within the U.S., and also has several original projects in development.
All One Red Room projects utilize the company’s proprietary "Publish Once–Play Everywhere" (P.O.P.E.) protocol which extends and enables entertainment content to all platforms through the company’s own advanced Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology solutions.
"We’re extremely proud of our quick start at One Red Room," comments Thornton, "We’re confident these two great Disney Channel series will soon be joined by many more for-hire projects, games and original series on our production slate. Already our clients are beginning to see the benefits of using our P.O.P.E. solution for effortlessly managing and distributing content across the many available entertainment platforms for greater audience reach."
In addition to producing the Electronic Arts/ Maxis Studios game, Sim City, Thornton oversaw production on Sierra Online’s CG/live-action gaming hit Phantasmagoria 2. He also managed Microsoft’s Interactive Production facility in Redmond, Washington, and worked as a writer and producer for The Walt Disney Co.
Hamilton started as an illustrator and animator for the globally popular Internet property Neopets.com, and later served as Flash animation supervisor, storyboard artist and character designer for Cornerstone Animation’s production of Veggie Tales for Big Idea. He then joined Hollywood-based Unbound Studios as animation director, working on broadcast projects for MTV and Disney, as well as animated online content for Disney, FOX. Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon.
For more information on One Red Room, go to www.oneredroom.com.
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