Click 3X has added highly skilled VFX Artist, Compositor and Creative Director Theodore Maniatis to its ever-growing roster.
Press Release from Click 3X
Click 3X has added highly skilled VFX Artist, Compositor and Creative Director Theodore Maniatis to its ever-growing roster. With more than 14 years experience creating stunning images for commercials, music videos and films, Maniatis has worked on high-profile campaigns for adidas, Coca-Cola, Absolut, Mercedes-Benz, Miller, Microsoft X Box, and Cheetos as well as music videos for Natasha Bedingfield and The Sugarbabes. His film work includes The Reader (2008) and the short films We Have Decided Not To Die (2004), Blackout (2005), and Tony (2007).
Maniatis joins Click after working in Australia, Asia, Europe and the US, spending time at, among others, Animal Logic LA, Psyop NYC and Rhino in New York City; The Mill in London and New York; and Fuel, Digital Pictures, Emerald City Design and Foxtel in Sydney.
"Our roster already includes some of the best talent in the world, so when we add someone, bet that he or she is going to possess talent of that same high caliber," noted Click 3X Managing Director Jason Mayo. "Theo is no exception - his reel is one of the best around."
Maniatis has a great breadth of experience, having collaborated with the top VFX teams in the industry. Both a technical and creative artist, he has not only a solid knowledge of VFX compositing programs Flame, Inferno, Combustion and Nuke, but also a keen understanding of VFX from a shooting perspective, having worked as a VFX supervisor on spots for Ford, Adidas, Pepto, Famous Footwear, and Halifax Bank. Maniatis has also worked as a director, with a reel that includes award-winning work for Australia's Channel 7, and spots for Barina, AM Eyewear and the Sydney Film Festival.
About Click 3X:Click 3X and its interactive division ClickFire Media create engaging film, TV and web content. Working in tandem or autonomously, Click 3X shoots, edits, designs, animates and creates VFX, while ClickFire brings those disciplines into the interactive space. Click operates a full service, 11,000 square foot state of the art studio in Manhattan outfitted with 50 fulltime staffers.
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