Veteran visual effects artist Robbie Robfogel has formed vfx and 3D animation studio Ocean Visual FX in Huntington Beach, Calif. The facility is using Newtek LIGHTWAVE 3D, Eyeon’s Digital Fusion compositing package and BOXX Technologies 3D workstations to design and produce effects and animation for feature films, broadcast and corporate marketing.
Company CEO and vfx supervisor Robfogel has been affiliated with such pixel haouse as Foundation Imaging, O-Entertainment, UFO Films, Transcontinuity Studios, Interweave Entertainment and others. Over the past decade, he has worked on such high-profile productions as Batman & Robin, Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles and Max Steel, as well as numerous music and corporate videos. ‘Our mission at Ocean Visual FX is to create cool, exciting and innovative product that helps the producer, director or company tell their story effectively in a memorable way,’ he says.
The Ocean team includes chief operations officer LuzMary Robfogel, Emmy Award-winning 3D modeler and animator Brandon MacDougall and character animator Jeff Clifton. MacDougall won a team Emmy in 1998-99 for Oustanding Special Effects for a Series for Star Trek Voyager. He was also nominated for the same series in 2001. An experienced Lightwave expert, Clifton previously served as character animator at Clear Crown Studio where he created animal characters for the PC game Wild Life! Before that, he was a 3D artist at Brainforest Digital Animatics.
Ocean has completed a web and DVD 3D modeling and animation package for Champion Sidecars, a company specializing in the conversion of Harley Davidson and Honda Gold Wing motorcycles into classic trikes and sidecars. The studio is also developing a 3D-animated promotional ad character for the Internet in conjunction with New Dimensions in Media. This interactive marketing tool will act as an agent host and guide on corporate websites.
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