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Brickyard VFX Creates Fantasy Worlds for Yahoo!

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX has just completed work on the new "Yahoo! Lip Sync" campaign via ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and Hungry Man director Bryan Buckley.

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Brickyard VFX Builds Stellar Effects for Panasonic

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX has delivered an out-of-this-world viewing experience for “Odyssey,” a :30 ad introducing the new Panasonic 3D HD VIERA TV via ad agency Arnold, which began airing May 15, 2010.

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Brickyard VFX Expands With Exec Producer McCarthy & Producer Herzog

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX today announced two new additions to its Boston team, Michael McCarthy as executive producer of special projects at Brickyard Filmworks, the company's feature film division, and Lucy Herzog as visual effects producer.

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Brickyard VFX Lends a Hand to Sprint for Pass the Pixi

By Matt Kapko | Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 8:49am

Artist owned and operated, bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently completed compositing, color grading, and CG work on a new spot for Sprint's webOS Palm Pixi - a smartphone that falls squarely into the 'for fun' camp. Titled "Pass the Pixi," the spot was directed by the Snorri Brothers of The Cartel for agency Modernista! and first aired November 17 in North America.

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Cassie Hulen Joins Brickyard VFX as Executive Producer

Press Release from Brickyard VFX

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX announced today that Cassie Hulen has been hired as Executive Producer at the company's Santa Monica shop, teaming up with Head of Production Diana Young Gomez.

"Cassie has an extensive background as an executive producer working with some of the top directors and agencies in the industry," said Steve Michaels, Managing Partner, Brickyard VFX. "We welcome her experience and know she'll make a great addition to the Brickyard team."

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Brickyard Filmworks Completes FX work on The Proposal

Press Release from Brickyard Filmworks

Santa Monica, CA and Boston, MA (June 23, 2009) -- Brickyard Filmworks has completed 320 VFX shots on Disney's hit comedy THE PROPOSAL, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, which opened worldwide on June 19. The year-old company, founded by Brian Drewes, Geoff McAuliffe and Dave Waller, (of commercial shop Brickyard VFX) has added a new partner -- film industry veteran Marc Sadeghi (formerly Executive Vice President at The Orphanage).

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Brickyard VFX Creates CG World for LG's ViewtySmart

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Santa Monica, CA (June 1, 2009) -- Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX provided visual effects for "Dandelion," a CG-intensive commercial for LG Electronics via ad agency Y&R NY. Directed by Filip Engstrom for prodco Smuggler, the spot began airing throughout Europe and Asia May 15.

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Brickyard VFX Dials Up Design for the Launch of T-Mobile's New G1 Phone

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX contributed vfx supervision, CG and graphic design work on a three-spot TV campaign for T-Mobile via ad agency Publicis in the West. Directed by Stylewar for production company Smuggler, QUESTIONS, SHARK and HOT DOG promote the new T-Mobile G1 phone with Google, which gives people the power of information, right at their fingertips. The campaign broke October 31.

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Brickyard VFX Plays Mother Nature For Mass Mutual

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX completed work on FISHING and ENTREPRENEUR, the newest spots from Mass Mutual Financial Group. directed by Anonymous Content's Robert Logevall for agency Mullen in Boston.

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Brickyard VFX Makes History For TAG Body Spray

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX completed work on GHOSTRIDE, the new spot from TAG Body Spray promoting the newly-launched record label TAG Records. Directed by Paul Hunter for ad agency Arnold, Boston, and starring rap artists Q and Jermaine Dupri, the spot broke nationally on July 17, 2008.

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Brickyard VFX Drives Seamless Effects For Pontiac Vibe

Brickyard VFX contributed extensive visual effects to the latest commercial for the Pontiac Vibe from Leo Burnett Detroit. The music video-like spot features rap/pop star Shwayze and broke nationwide on air and online on April 21, 2008.

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Sue Troyan Joins Brickyard VFX

Sue Troyan has joined Brickyard VFX's Santa Monica facility as exec producer after departing Method Studios as head of production.

"I have known and worked with Sue on and off for over 15 years, and she has a deep knowledge of the visual effects process and a fantastic reputationamong top commercial production companies and advertising agencies," said Steve Michaels, managing partner, Brickyard VFX. "We're really excited to have her on board."

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Brickyard VFX Lights Up the Night for Sprint

Brickyard VFX of Santa Monica completed work on another spot project for Sprint. The ad, LIGHT TRAIL, uses a similar light-painting motif featured in the current broadcast, print and outdoor campaign for Sprint via Goody, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. The spot began airing this week and was directed by the Snorri Bros. via production company Smuggler.

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Brickyard VFX Breaks Into Flight for Honda Motorcycles

In the latest spot for Honda Motorcycles, a frustrated driver punches through the roof of his car in bumper-to-bumper traffic, sprouts wings and flies to open road heaven with help from memorable 3D and effects work by the Brickyard VFX CG team. This spot marks the latest in a series of collaborations between the artist-owned-and-operated bicoastal effects boutique and director Kinka Usher of House of Usher.

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Brickyard VFX Helps Dress Up Boyfriend Trouser Spot for The Gap

Brickyard VFX of Santa Monica, California, provided extensive beauty and split screen work on a :30 spot for The Gap titled "Boyfriend Trouser," directed by the Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE). The spot stars actors Claire Danes (SHOPGIRL, MY SO-CALLED LIFE) and Patrick Wilson (RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, LITTLE CHILDREN).

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Brickyard VFX Takes Hummer H2 into Hyperspace with Star Trek Cues

Brickyard VFX has completed of a new :30 second spot for Hummer's H2 via ad agency Modernista, Boston. The spot boldly goes where no Hummer has gone before, playing off of iconic STAR TREK music and visual cues.

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Brickyard VFX Completes Chili Peppers, Sunshine Music Videos

Artist-owned-and-operated visual effects studio Brickyard VFX has wrapped two new music videos. The first video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and promotes the song "Tell Me Baby" for The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The second promotes DeVotchKa's "Till the End of Time" from LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.

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Brickyard VFX Creates Chase Sequence for Hispanic Spots

Artist-owned-and-operated effects studio Brickyard VFX has completed a spate of high production value television commercials for the Hispanic market through such agencies as Accent Marketing. The recent work includes two spots for Farmers Insurance Group directed by Martin Weisz and shot by Amir Mokri that feature actor Edward James Olmos (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, MIAMI VICE, BLADE RUNNER), and boast a distinctly cinematic look and feel.

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Compositing Artist Jimi Simmons Joins Brickyard VFX

Artist-owned-and-operated visual effects company Brickyard VFX has hired compositing and visual effects talent Jimi Simmons. A multiple Emmy Award nominee, Simmons brings to the Brickyard VFX team extensive visual effects experience, including work for Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman, Spaz Williams, Mark Dippé and other notable film, music video and commercial directors. A resource for both Brickyard VFX Atlantic and Brickyard VFX Pacific projects, he will be based in Boston.

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Brickyard VFX Wraps AT&T 2006 Winter Olympics Campaign

Brickyard VFX lifts up U.S. Olympians and viewers in a series of AT&T commercials for the 2006 Winter Games. The campaign includes the :30 HD ads SKI LIFT and MEDAL CEREMONY, which leverage Brickyard VFXs compositing, animation and effects expertise to create everything from lift lines connecting two continents to an 8,000-mile fly-over around the world.

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