Motionographer® Nolo Digital Movie Relocates to Sarofsky Studio
Sarofsky Principal and Govt Inventive Director Erin Sarofsky and Mike Matusek, Founder and Colorist at Nolo Digital Film, are very proud to announce their new strategic partnership.
Having simply relocated into Sarofsky’s state-of-the-art studio in Chicago’s West Loop, Nolo is now additionally sharing Sarofsky’s customer support and manufacturing sources.
As a key a part of this new association, Sarofsky’s Managing Director/Govt Producer Steven Anderson and Head of Manufacturing Joel Signer will share oversight on manufacturing for each firms. This distinctive collaboration seamlessly combines the choices of two visionary artist-owned manufacturing entities.
Shifting ahead, Nolo’s top-tier skills stay devoted to delivering distinctive shade grading and digital intermediate mastering providers to each in-studio and digital shoppers, catering to the distinct necessities of the promoting and leisure industries. Whether or not completely for shade, or together with Sarofsky’s elite artistic and/or ending pipelines, Chicago’s house for premier shade lives on at Nolo.
Nolo’s Colourful Historical past and Future
Again in 2007, when Matusek turned a Associate and Colorist at Nolo, he had already earned a robust following. Basically, the color-grading artistry he supplied for high-profile commercials and have movies at i-cubed saved many consumers coming again.
His persevering with legacy as colorist for filmmaker Steve James started in that period, and since then, Matusek’s prolific collaborations with much more advert and leisure trade leaders have saved him and his colleagues on the high of their sport.
Together with coloring many Tremendous Bowl spots, Nolo’s in depth credit additionally embrace deep involvement with latest, high-profile restorations for Orson Welles’ “The Chimes at Midnight” and Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath,” and coloring Steve James’ newest undertaking with ESPN Movies, which debuted at this 12 months’s SXSW Competition.
“As an artist-driven studio centered solely on color-grading commercials and have movies, we’re very happy with every part we’ve achieved thus far,” Matusek started. “Whereas we’re a small studio, we all know our expertise and providers are world-class.”
Along with Matusek, Nolo’s core skills embrace Senior Colorist Elliot Rudmann and Shade Assistant Kathleen Younger. “With Elliot onboard since 2009 and Kathleen’s presence since 2016, we have now nice continuity collectively as a workforce,” Matusek continued.
“In a enterprise the place change and turnover are constants, we’re particularly proud to have been capable of keep collectively, and in high kind, for our shoppers,” added Rudmann. “We really feel this new association with Sarofsky is a dream come true for everybody concerned.”
Amongst Nolo’s scores of VIP shoppers, Sarofsky has been a frequent collaborator since its launch in 2009. Through the years, a lot of Sarofsky’s largest tasks have been coloured by Nolo artists, together with final 12 months’s primary title sequence for the Apple TV+ unique collection, “WeCrashed.”
For Erin Sarofsky, the rationale for this strategic partnership is multifaceted. First, she is aware of first-hand that Nolo’s boutique color-grading experiences produce glorious outcomes, whether or not remotely or in-studio.
The truth that Nolo’s skills are each distinctive and humble additionally stands out to her.
“Moreover,” she defined, “having Nolo within the studio whereas our artists are designing, modifying, and animating will improve the alternatives for collaboration in any respect levels of the method… which is a pleasant evolution. Sarofsky and Nolo additionally share passions for industrial and leisure tasks, which has helped each firms stand out, particularly in Chicago.”
Sarofsky continued, “Along with Mike and his workforce, we see this as a chance to work with elite design, VFX, edit, end – and now shade – all beneath one roof. Placing sensible creatives collectively is what Sarofsky is all about. We don’t simply add know-how, we add artists who convey their factors of view and views to the artistic course of. Mike and Elliot do exactly that, and can make our inside artistic conversations that rather more knowledgeable and sturdy.”
Steven Anderson additionally shared his ideas on the brand new paradigm.
“Constructing on our historical past of collaborations between Sarofsky and Nolo by teaming-up is a pure development,” he mentioned. “Additionally, having the Nolo workforce right here will likely be nice for our artists and the producers to work with and be taught from. This collaboration rounds out our ending capabilities as properly, making us stronger and much more priceless for all of our shoppers.”
About Nolo
Primarily based inside Sarofsky’s state-of-the-art studio in Chicago’s West Loop, the acclaimed color-grading experience of Nolo Digital Movie now operates in strategic partnership with one-stop cross-media manufacturing firm Sarofsky. Nolo’s top-tier skills stay devoted to delivering distinctive shade grading and digital intermediate (DI) mastering providers to each in-studio and digital shoppers, catering to the distinct necessities of the promoting and leisure industries. Whether or not completely for shade, or together with Sarofsky’s elite artistic and/or ending pipelines, Chicago’s house for premier shade lives on at Nolo.
About Sarofsky
Director, artistic director, and designer Erin Sarofsky kick-started Sarofsky in 2009 and fashioned a bunch of terribly proficient makers who’ve been offering their providers to leaders within the promoting and leisure industries worldwide. Right this moment, Sarofsky’s makers use animation, visible results, movement design and live-action to collaborate with prospects from idea to supply, producing work that’s visceral, modern and various. With artistry that encapsulates in-house lengthy format, chic commercials, model movies, title sequences and way more, Sarofsky’s popularity for breakthrough design, its confirmed multi-media manufacturing experience, and its fabulous Olson Kundig-designed studio in Chicago’s West Loop all represent key parts of the attraction.