Visual effects company Method has hired senior Smoke artist Aidan Thomas to its Creative Finishing division.
Press Release from Method
Los Angeles, CA – September 27, 2010 – Visual effects company Method has hired senior Smoke artist Aidan Thomas to its Creative Finishing division. Thomas joins Method from the UK’s Golden Square Post and The Mill, where he worked on commercial campaigns for Intel, Levi’s and Reebok, among others. Recent projects from Thomas at Method include the Nike “MVPuppets” campaign and the Nike “Goodbye Baseball” spot with Ken Griffey Jr. for Wieden+Kennedy. Thomas is currently at work on the ongoing Old Navy campaign from Crispin Porter. “We’re thrilled to have Aidan join the team,” said Method’s Creative Finishing executive producer Robert Owens. “He is amazingly adept as a finishing artist--fast, great with clients and a creative thinker, but it's his savvy eye and compositing sensibilities that set him apart from other Smoke artists. Aidan's made an immediate impression with clients and has grown a strong client base very quickly. It can take years to build a client base for a talent in a new city, and with Aidan it's happened almost instantaneously.” A talented Smoke artist with a passion for moving images, and a native of England, Thomas spent two years at Golden Square Post Production in London, following positions at The Mill London/New York and the UK’s Moving Picture Company. While at The Mill, Thomas headed up the Smoke department, serving as lead artist on worldwide campaigns for Intel, the celebrated “Straight” campaign for Levi’s featuring spots by Gorgeous directors Tom Carty and Frank Budgen and the Martini campaign by Michael Haussman featuring George Clooney, as well as projects for Aflac, Adidas, Nike, Reebok, ESPN, Snickers, Verizon/Sprint, Nikon, Virgin Mobile, Capitol One, Burger King, Mastercard, Volvo, Cheerios, LG and Panasonic, among others. “Aidan has been an enormous asset to the Creative Finishing division and is an integral and very positive part of the team,” said creative director Claus Hansen. “In addition to his standout work with clients, he has already been instrumental in organizing our job directory structure and some of our working systems.” As a senior Smoke artist on Method’s Creative Finishing team, Thomas joins senior Smoke artist Jason Frank and newly hired junior Smoke Artist Aaron Neitz, as well as Flame artists Kelly Bumbarger, Wensen Ho and Claus Hansen, who also serves as the division’s creative director. “It’s really exciting to be part of such a creative and collaborative environment and join such a skilled team of artists,” Thomas said. “Method has a really clean technical infrastructure and top-notch producers, which makes it extremely easy for us to focus on delivering exactly what the clients need.” About Method StudiosBased in Los Angeles, with locations in New York and London, Method Studios is a leading post production facility providing a full range of visual effects services including conceptual design, look development, 3D animation/CGI, matte painting, compositing and finishing. Method Studios also provides an array of services to stereoscopic film productions, including the creation of stereo 3D content. Method's sister company, Company 3, maintains a full stereoscopic color-grading suite in the same building as Method’s Los Angeles facility, most recently used for Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland." www.methodstudios.com
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