Great addition at Pixomondo with the VFX veteran Bryan Godwin as the Head of Studio for their Los Angeles office!
Here is the press release:
Pixomondo, the Oscar and Emmy-winning visual effects and virtual production company, has hired VFX veteran Bryan Godwin as Head of Studio for its Los Angeles facility.
Pixomondo (“PXO”) has eight global offices, including Los Angeles, which also serves as headquarters for the group. Godwin will build on Pixomondo’s success on the West Coast, which includes such recent feature film and television projects as Raised By Wolves, Perry Mason, Westworld, The Orville, Goliath, Greenland, Midway and many more.
Godwin brings with him two decades of business and artistic experience at Shade VFX, which he founded in 2009, and more recently at DNEG in Los Angeles. Godwin’s VFX Supervisor credits include Joker, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Wolverine. Under his leadership,Shade won an Emmy for its work on Westworld and Godwin was personally Emmy-nominated for his work on Daredevil.
Over the years, Pixomondo and Shade have worked on many of the same projects, including Westworld, Here & Now, Marco Polo and the feature films Live By Night and Justice League. Both companies earned separate Emmy nominations for their work on Westworld.
“Pixomondo is a natural fit for me – a place where I can flex all the knowledge I’ve acquired as a creative, technical artist and executive,” said Godwin. “These past experiences have led me to this new role. I’m excited to roll up my sleeves and jump in.”
Godwin’s announcement comes just as Pixomondo opens its first virtual production studio and LED volume in Toronto, Canada, with plans underway to open other facilities across North America, Europe, and China.
“It is critical to embrace Virtual Production because it really is the future,” Godwin continued. “Pixomondo is very much on the forefront of this technology and I’m thrilled to be at a company that is embracing that as a mission statement.”
Pixomondo CEO Jonny Slow added, “We are absolutely delighted to announce the addition of Bryan to PXO on the West Coast. To grow PXO successfully, we need to ensure that our senior team can operate in a culture that was carefully constructed by (founder) Thilo Kuther to put the creative process, and emphasis on innovation, at the heart of everything we do.
“As a creative and as an entrepreneur, Bryan is an exact match, and he joins at a time when we are accelerating the evolution of PXO into new techniques and embracing new technology in a big way. Bryan’s leadership is a fantastic addition to our team, and we look forward to working with him for many years to come.”
Upcoming Pixomondo projects include the Roland Emmerich film Moonfall, the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse, actor David Oyelowo’s feature directorial debut The Waterman, Season 3 of The Orville, and the fourth seasons of Goliath and Star Trek: Discovery.
© Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2021