After artists Joshua Wassung and Brian Weaver returned from a scouting mission to Israel, The Third Floor kicked off an epic feature film based on the Bible. For the project, The Third Floor has annexed additional space on the 9th floor of our art-deco building to accommodate storyboard artists and an editorial suite. The team is thrilled to be collaborating with the amazing concept designers from Weta in New Zealand to bring the best-selling book of all time to life!
The Third Floor dispatches two more artists to join Eric Carney’s team on Robert Zemekis’ A Christmas Carol.
Chris Edwards, CEO & President of The Third Floor, is featured in Part 1 of VFX World’s online series entitled The Digital Eye: Dissecting A Previs Roundtable. Visit this website to read the full article or DOWNLOAD A PDF.
The Third Floor is approached to do a presentation on “Real-Time Previs” at the Visual Effects Society. Along with our good friends at Xsens Moven, The Third Floor demonstrated how Motion Capture can improve the previs work flow.
The Third Floor is excited to announce the purchase and implementation of a Moven motion capture suit. This motion capture technology will allow for an even greater level of character realism in our previs, and we’re thrilled to begin integrating it into our process.
The Third Floor is asked to participate in the 5D: The Future of Immersive Design conference in Long Beach, CA. Visit this website to read the full article.
After the success of Beowulf, Eric Carney, original founder and CFO of The Third Floor, is personally requested by ImageMovers Digital to help in the creation of the newest Robert Zemekis 3-D phenomenon A Christmas Carol.
The Third Floor is asked to help flesh out the unique characters and environments in Troy Nixey’s latest project in the form of a pitch reel for Walden Media.
The Third Floor is asked to provide artists to work on the post-vis for Prince Caspian. A combination of roto-work, compositing, and tracking keeps our artists busy for several weeks. Visit this website to view the latest trailer.
The Third Floor is asked to provide artists to work on the post-vis for Prince Caspian. A combination of roto-work, compositing, and tracking keeps our artists busy for several weeks.
President & CEO Chris Edwards is asked to present at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Chris joined fellow presenters Ron Frankel of Proof, and David Morin of AutoDesk in an effort to encourage synergy between Previsualization Teams and Cinematographers.
The Third Floor begins work on Walden Media’s Lotus Caves, the directorial debut of friend and collaborator Rpin Suwannath.
The Third Floor joins forces with Just Cause Productions to develop the cinematic sequences for CAPCOM’s groundbreaking Resident Evil 5 game.
A long-time friend of The Third Floor, Previs Supervisor Rpin Suwannath discusses his previs process for The Chronicles and Narnia: Prince Caspian in his month’s edition of VFX Worlds "The Digital Eye." Visit this website to view the latest trailer.
http://www.vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=319b255d&atype=articles&id=3399
The Third Floor is thrilled to announce that our artists have been requested for JJ Abrams’ newest directorial project.
Our 2nd Annual Open House is a success! Thanks to all who stopped by to see our new space and to celebrate with us. We’re so grateful to have you all as friends and clients!
After being tapped by JJ Abrams’ production company to work on the super-secret “Cloverfield” trailer, (as seen in front of Transformers); The Third Floor delivered previs for the entire feature — coming soon (01-18-08?) to a theatre near you!
After finishing previs on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Third Floor artists joined the team on the third installment in the series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
The Third Floor has moved! After experiencing continued growth, we have settled into our new space on the 10th floor of our Art Deco office building. We’ve been told the view from our balcony is one of the best in the city!
The Third Floor is excited to be cast as the previsualization team on the next M. Night Shyamalan thriller, The Happening.
After spending 10 months developing previz sequences for Walden Media’s upcoming Chronicles of Narnia sequel, Prince Caspian, Third Floor artists have wrapped in time to join the team on the third film in the series, Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Construction Begins! After experiencing continued growth, The Third Floor is moving to a larger office/studio space. Move dates are scheduled for the first week of June. Stay tuned for more information!
The Third Floor is thrilled to announce it has been selected to previsualize the exciting battle sequences for the new Untitled Bryan Singer / Tom Cruise feature.
Two Third Floor artists begin working on the newest Walden Media live-action feature Tortoise and Hippo, creating new characters and setting up the previsualization environments and sequences.
The Third Floor is tapped to previzualize a pitch trailer for a ground-breaking new feature tackling the Bible — from Creation to the Apocalypse - featuring Heaven and Hell environments never before seen on the big screen.
After spending months previsualizing sequences for Disney’s upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End, another Third Floor artist lends his expertise to the team at James Cameron’s Avatar.
The Third Floor is excited to be cast as the previsualization team on the newest Eddie Murphy vehicle, Starship Dave, for 20th Century Fox.
Our first-ever music video! After working with director enclave Smuggler on various commercial projects, Third Floor founder Chris Edwards worked closely with director Jonnie Ross and Smuggler to previsualize the high-concept music video for indie rock group Muse’s Invincible.
Two Third Floor artists join the highly-anticipated and latest feature to come from the mind of James Cameron — Avatar. Joining a team of highly-skilled visual effects artists, our two veterans will get a chance to help create never-before seen effects, characters, and worlds of fantasy.
The Third Floor celebrates our 4th Annual Open House with the biggest turnout ever! Thank you to our guests for coming out and seeing all of our hard work from the past year. Pictures to follow shortly. See you next year!
CEO Chris Edwards is a guest speaker at the Spark Animation Festival in Vancouver.
Digital Day at the DGA Demo- CEO Chris Edwards presented on the challenges of directing in the interactive arena alongside veteran Director and Video Game Designer Richard Taylor.
The short film Ring of Gundam is released to celebrate Gundam’s 30th Anniversary. We were fortunate to again work with our good friends at Robot to help launch this newest addition to the Gundam franchise.
The Third Floor begins work on Rob Cohen’s exciting new project Medieval.
Star Trek is released in theatres bringing in $258M in Box Office totals over the summer. The Third Floor was thrilled to previs the opening battle sequence. We’d like to thank Bad Robot and Paramount for allowing us to work on such a great project.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is released in theatres nationwide and proves that the X-Men franchise is not slowing down! The Third Floor is proud to have helped Fox Studios bring this exciting project to life.
The Third Floor begins work on the next installment of the Iron Man franchise Iron Man 2.
The Third Floor is mentioned in the StudioDaily article covering the technical steps behind the making of Cloverfield. Visit this website to read the full article or DOWNLOAD A PDF.
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/9017.html
The Third Floor is mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter! The article covers the film Cloverfield, its box office projections, and the making of the film from previs to production. Visit this website to read the full article or DOWNLOAD A PDF.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic57162ccf8c18bbfffe7bc68a869b66e
CEO Chris Edwards is a guest speaker at SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama, Japan.
The Third Floor is proud to be working with Method Studios on two AT&T commercials for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games airing on NBC February 12—28, 2010.
The Third Floor concludes all major previs and post-vis operations on IRON MAN 2 for Marvel Studios. Here’s a look at the new trailer:
Previs begins on a new feature film, THE SMURFS directed by Raja Gosnell — set for release July 2011.
The Third Floor provides motion capture and visualization services as part of a contestant challenge on VH1’s "Scream Queens".
The owners and employees of The Third Floor celebrate a successful 2009 with a holiday party at Café Santorini in Pasadena.
Check out the second trailer for Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND, for which The Third Floor provided previs services:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTl5sDJjfsE&feature=player_embedded
Work begins on BATTLESHIP directed by Peter Berg — set for release August 2011.
The Third Floor thanks Glenn Derry for bringing us on board an exciting new pitch project in development at Warner Brothers.
James Cameron’s AVATAR is released. A team of Third Floor artists was integral to the creation of Avatar from the beginning of 3D environment building to supporting Cameron throughout the virtual production process:
http://www.awn.com/news/motion-graphics/third-floor-aids-avatar/
Disney releases A CHRISTMAS CAROL, on which The Third Floor artists spent over a year working with Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis.
The Third Floor Turns to StudioGPU MachStudio Pro to Streamline Digital Previsualization.
http://www.vizworld.com/2010/01/floor-turns-studiogpu-machstudio-pro/#more-10883
MachStudio Pro highlighted in 3D World Magazine’s “Renderers: a guide for the perplexed” article with expert opinion given by The Third Floor CEO Chris Edwards
The Third Floor was honored to be visited by ‘Fuji TV’ from Japan through UCLA’s Media Training Seminar 2009. Read more about their visit to our studios here
Congratulations to the Academy Award nominated “Avatar” for your groundbreaking achievements and 9 nominations for:
Best Picture
Art Direction
Cinematography
Best Director for James Cameron
Film Editing
Music
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
It was a pleasure working with you and we wish you the best of luck on Sunday, March 7th!!
The Third Floor would like to congratulate JJ Abrams and the entire “Star Trek” crew for your Academy Award Nominations for:
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
It was a pleasure working with you and we wish you the best of luck on Sunday, March 7th!!
The Third Floor would like to thank Raja Gosnell and the entire “The Smurfs” team as previs for the July 2011 release comes to a wrap.
Congratulations to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and Tim Burton for dominating the #1 spot at the Box Office for three consecutive weeks.
"Inside The Third Floor"-A behind the scenes look at the previz work for Star Wars, Cloverfield, Prince Caspian, Lair and Lost Odyssey originally posted on CGChannel.com.
Disney’s 3D phenom "Alice in Wonderland" has become the sixth movie to cross $1 billion in worldwide box office and the first spring release to do so.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i653c072dd63127c843933703067c74d6
Third Floor featured or mentioned in “American Cinematographer” May 2010 “Iron Man 2” issue.
http://www.ascmag.com/ac_magazine/May2010/IronMan2/page1.php
Watch The Third Floor and Xsens collaborate on a motion capture shoot for an episode of VH1’s “Scream Queens 2”. Ten aspiring actresses will have the chance to win a breakthrough role in "Saw 3D," the next film in Lionsgate’s "Saw" horror franchise.
http://www.vh1.com/video/scream-queens-2/full-episodes/episode-3/1645804/playlist.jhtml
The Third Floor has been featured in the August issue of 3D World Magazine.
“From storyboard to silver screen-Discover how movie production is changing today‘s VFX pipeline as we track the development of a big-screen blockbuster.”