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- We're a flash studio.We love making cartoons and games!We've produced over 20 million dollars in animated content in the last 12 years. Shows like Three Delivery, Skunk Fu!, Garth & Bev, Happy Tree Friends even a bit of Family Guy. We've delivered to almost every broadcaster, Canal +, BBC, A&E, Nickelodeon, MTV, YTV, CBC, we could keep on writing, but you get the jist. Yeah, we've been around.We've made games for Klondike and MTV and countless others. We get the interactive side. After drawing for 12 hours we gotta chillax right? We're all gamers at heart.Now we figured out how to create our own iOS games for iPhone, iPod and iPad. Just another creative outlet for us and of course, for you.There's not much we can't do when it comes to making animated content. We live this everyday and love it!So if you have a gig, drop us a line. We've knocked out $5k gigs and $5M gigs. We love them all. We love you too, you look great today.Your breath, so minty.Gene
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- SummaryI am a serial entrepreneur. I can't stop myself.
Usually my endeavors involve fun stuff like silly animation. But not always. In the last 10 years my teams and I have brought over twenty million dollars worth of animation production to our studios, employing hundreds of artists in Atlantic Canada.
In 1999 I founded Fatkat Animation Studios in Halifax which was quickly taken over completely by our biggest client and re-named Trainingscape Studios Canada. As pioneers in the flash animation industry, we produced animated interactive training films for clients such as Hasbro, Boeing and Nike. Trainingscape went out of business in the winter of 2003.
That spring I left Halifax to once again raise the Fatkat flag, this time in my hometown of Miramichi New Brunswick. In the second life of Fatkat, I decided to focus on entertainment rather than education and within 4 years grew Fatkat to over 120 in-house, full-time artists.
This animation army rose to popularity in the production of television series. Fatkat worked on television shows such as Odd Job Jack, Carl Squared, Caillou, SuperNormal. They co-produced and financed shows like And Yet I Blame Hollywood, the cult hit Happy Tree Friends and also Three Delivery for networks such CBC, SRC, YTV, Teletoon, Nickelodeon, G4, Canal + and BBC .
Early in 2009, the world changed, many broadcasters stopped buying and our studio's girth got harder to carry. We were too fat to hold on. So we let go, don't cry. I didn't, it happens.
Now we're back, with Loogaroo. A riveting new studio, with a smokin' new model. Not since the golden age of Hollywood has it been this exciting to be in show business!
Hold on to yer nickers!Specialties: I bring creative energy, tenacity for results and a lot of laughs to anything I work on.Experience- Jan 2009 - PresentCreative Hotdog | Founder / LoogarooA Loogaroo is a wolfman, better yet, he's a shape shifter. A mischievous creature that can take on other forms in order to achieve a goal.
The Loogaroo is also a perfectionist, maybe a bit obsessive compulsive. We'd like to think that he just has very high standards of quality rather than being a nut job.
At the same time though, we believe that in order for an animation and gaming studio to be successful, it must also keep exceptionally high standards and of course, some of that nuttiness.
To keep these higher standards for our clients, we take on fewer projects and never anymore than one television series at a time. this way we maximize the focus of our talents on art, the message and story. We have a deep passion for creating and telling stories in all forms and mediums.
We've produced commercials, branded webseries, games & apps, corporate presentations, shorts and televisions shows. At Loogaroo we've assembled a team of high caliber writers, directors, artists, animators and programmers that can shape-shift into any medium that will best deliver the results you need and crave.
From 3D, Stop Motion, Flash, After Effects or Puppetry, we can do it all and have. Our experienced team has hundreds of production credits under their belts. From Pre-school shows for Sesame Street, commercials for Toyota, Interactive E-Learning for Nike, to working on Family Guy. We've even produced our own adult show for Teletoon. We really do enjoy creating in the full spectrum and we've delivered throughout, it's just what we do.
Loogaroo will deliver for you quality content on time and on budget, that's for certain. However we promise you alot of laughter along the way.
We love what we do. - May 1999 - May 2009President | Founder / FatkatFatkat was an exceptionally talented team of professional artists, directors and producers.
In 1999 with a staff of over 50, we created flash animated interactive training films for fortune 500 companies In 2003 we were reborn and with over 120 artists we cranked out content for television and the web.
The Fatkat team worked on high quality notable shows including Family Guy, Happy Tree Friends, Skunk Fu, Chaotic, SuperNormal, Odd Job Jack, Caillou, and Carl Squared.
Fatkat had also completed several commercial projects for the Microsoft, Pepsi, Yahoo, Century 21 and a web series campaign for Unilever’s “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”
In May 2009, with over 20 million dollars of production and hundreds of employees over a period of 10 years. We wrapped on 26 half hours of "Three Delivery" for YTV, Nicktoons and BBC and shut our doors. - May 1999 - Feb 2003Executive Director of Production / TrainingscapeAssembled and managed the most innovative and creative flash team of the turn of the century. We created over 40 flash interactive flash animated training films for fortune 500 companies.
When the company went bottoms up, these pioneer flash animators spread across North America. Most of today's flash techniques and production processes were born here. - Nov 1998 - Aug 1999Animator / Designer / Helix AnimationKey Animator
Lynn Johnson’s “For better or for worse” 16 X 22 min episodes
“Freaky Stories” 5 X 6 min episodes. Character Designer 16 X 6 min episodes. Location & Prop Designer 4 X 6 min episodes.
“Children of the Chelm”: Gemini Award nominee for Best Animated
Program or Series 1 X 22 min Christmas special.
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1997 - 1998NBCC MIRAMICHIAnimation Production
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Honors:2008 - Nominated for KIRA award for "Industry Person of the Year" 2008 - Named to the Wallace McCain Institute for Business Leadership 2008 – Fatkat named 3rd fastest growing company in Atlantic Canada. 2008 – CBDC Young Entrepreneur Award. 2007 – BDC Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007 – Top 50 CEO in Atlantic Canada Atlantic Business Magazine. 2007 – Featured on the Cover of Progress Magazine. 2007 – Fatkat named Atlantic Canada’s fastest growing company. 2006 – Business New Brunswick Innovation award. 2006 – Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. 2005 – CBDC Young Entrepreneur Award. 2005 – KIRA award for most promising start up. 2004 – Finalist in the New Players category at the Banff 2004 TV festival. 2004 – CTV Fellowship award. 2004 – Nominated for best comedic director at the 2004 Reel Island film festival. 1998 – 10 most promising animators in Canada by Teletoon. 1998 - Selected for the Canadian young entrepreneurs mission to San Francisco.
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Interests:I like to Draw, because it actually is a hobby more now than ever. I also enjoy Snowboarding, Hockey, Ultimate Frisbee and Hacky Sac, although I enjoyed it better 40 pounds ago. I love to read inspiring books on business and personal development.
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- We don't meet deadlines, we make them. Congrats to my team for hammering out another round of on budget, on time projects! ~G.
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