Wild Brain's Humpty Dumpty Nike Spot.

Wild Brain is run by a consortium of directors (John Hays, Phil Robinson, Gordon Clark, David Marshall and Robin Steele, plus producer Jeff Fino) who use a combination of traditional and computer animation, other new technologies, and overseas animation service. Their work stresses storytelling and entertainment. At present Phil Robinson is directing Ferngully II, a direct-to-video sequel to the Bill Kroyer film. They are also developing an Internet situation comedy for the Microsoft Network, a pilot for Nickelodeon, and several commercials (Coke, Mainstay, etc.).

EyeHeart is Siri Margerine's new animation art production service, doing ink and paint, backgrounds, illustrations, and whatever else your art needs might be. For many years, Siri headed the art production services department at Colossal. Clients include Colossal, Story Animation, Wild Brain, Curious Pictures, Maverick, and other local studios.

MessyOptics is an animation camera service founded in 1996 by Carter Tomassi. The company uses Colossal's late model Oxberry animation stand, with a 16mm and 35mm cameras, featuring all the bells and whistles needed to do complex productions, including a motion control system. Tomassi also has a 35mm high contrast film processor for doing pencil tests and a 35mm Steenbeck flatbed. His clients include Colossal Pictures, Curious Pictures, Lucas Arts, Pacific Data Images, Spellbound Productions, Story Animation Co., and Wild Brain.
(find out more at http://www.messyoptics.com/)

Maverick is an animation studio formed in 1996 by Robert Valley and Jeanne Reynolds. Valley, who animated for Colossal; he was in Korea working on a Aeon Flux with Peter Chung when he got word that Colossal had filed for Chapter 11. Maverick was formed when he returned to the States. They have been kept busy doing work for Wild Brain and Curious Pictures.

Aeon Flux.

Little Fluffy Clouds is a computer animation firm run by Betsy de Fries and Jerry van de Beek. Since opening up in June 1996, they did the character animation for Colossal's recent Pictogram Coca-Cola spot, created the destruction of the universe in 60 seconds for Rocket Science, and animated a 30 second Mainstay commercial for Wild Brain. The company is now working on another Coke commercial for Colossal.

Media Concrete is a multimedia design company run by Stuart Cudlitz, George Consagra and Anne Ashbey-Pierotti. They had formed Colossal's New Media Division in 1990 and opened Media Concrete in March 1995. Working with Colossal, they produced the Koala Lumpur CD-ROM for Brøderbund. Other interactive projects they have worked on are Play-Doh Creations for Hasbro Interactive and Ruff's Bone for Living Books. They have also worked on projects for IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others using new technology for communications.

Story Animation Company is run by Robert Story, who worked at Colossal as a producer. He recently produced a commercial for GTE Mobilnet and is presently producing the animated segments of a Sears commercial.