Bio's : Hawaii Animation Studios

Partners:

Dan Krech

Dan Krech is the President and CEO of HAS. As the former head of DKP, Dan brings his production knowledge and experience into service as the head of production and business development. Dan was the President, executive producer and director at DKP for 21 years. Over the last 2 years Dan was an industry consultant and spent a large portion of his time overseas as the producer of three projects. His track record and experience is the standard in quality that Entrenched warrants for all their clientele.  Dan will personally oversee all the projects that Entrenched undertakes and together with the management team provide all of our clients with a project that exceeds all expectations.

 

Credits Include:

 

Jeff Bell

As Partner and CTO of HAS, Jeff brings his 20 years of experience designing pipelines and creating tools for artists. Jeff most recently served as Visual FX Supervisor for the Focus Feature's theatrical film Nine, due for release in Fall 2009. He acted as Lighting Supervisor, Lead Lighter, and worked with Attitude Studios and the Technology team at Starz to engineer an asset transfer pipeline to enable animation and lighting data transfers into either company’s pipeline. Jeff started his career as an animator, but changed his direction and used his engineering background and artistic talents to be instrumental in the development of Maya software for Alias Wavefront.  Subsequent to that accomplishment, Jeff was primarily responsible for the technical growth and direction of DKP, Canada’s foremost computer animation studio.  After which, Jeff became the VP of technology for Starz Animation and IDT entertainment, before founding HAS.


Key Personnel:

Remington Scott

Remington Scott's experience includes supervising computer graphics for top visual effects studios including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Weta Digital, and Square Pictures. He is a supervising member of several Academy Award winning visual effects teams including " Spider-man 2" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," as well as the Academy Award nominated "Superman Returns". Remington's work from "Spider-man 3" received a nomination for 'Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Picture' from the Visual Effects Society and he has authored several patents for Sony Pictures.

A 20+ year veteran in the development and production methodologies of new animation technologies, Remington directed and produced the performance capture for the first theatrically released feature film to utilize motion capture, "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," and oversaw the creation of the performance capture of Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". Remington is recognized for creating some of the most memorable digital doubles and realistic computer generated performances for feature films including "The Watchmen" and "Beowulf" as well as contributing to the stylized animation of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs".

 Chris "Maddog" DiGiovanni

Chris earned his production stripes at MTV in the fast pace of New York City's live action scene before moving west to join the then upstart CG house Pixar. After almost a decade and 6 Films with Pixar

Chris returned to New York to become a Production Manager at Bluesky Animation Studios. Most recently Chris worked along side Jeff Bell at Starz Animation in Toronto. For Hawaii Animation Studios, he will bring 25 years production experience as an artist and production journeyman to the position of Production Manager.

 

CG Film Credits Include:

Jon Lomberg

Jon Lomberg is an artist and art director whose work is known worldwide through print, film, and broadcast, and electronic media. His 25 year partnership with astronomer Carl Sagan produced some of the most important science inspired art of our time, including: