EXCLUSIVE: Smiling Mates creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel and producer Aron Fromm have teamed to launch Zam Studios, a brand new Los Angeles-based unbiased animation studio.
Zam will concentrate on top quality animation, VFX, manufacturing and post-production of all kinds, in line with Cusack, Hadel and Fromm. The studio will even supply shopper providers for tv, characteristic movie and business tasks, in addition to creating unique content material.
“Zam will concentrate on what issues most in animation – high-quality work made by individuals who perceive the method, are obsessive about craft and have a knack for producing cartoons that recapture the magic of years previous,” Cusack, Hadel and Fromm mentioned in a joint assertion.
The studio is dealing with all specialty and blended media animation, stay motion, compositing and VFX for the third season of Smiling Mates, which premieres Sunday, October 5 on Grownup Swim and Monday, October 6 on HBO Max. The quarter-hour collection follows the staff of a small firm devoted to bringing happiness to a weird but colourful world. The brand new season options a mixture of Claymation, high-end 2D animation, CG animation, cease movement and stay motion parts.
Cusack (Yolo: Crystal Fantasy) and Hadel (OneyPlays, Hellbenders) are co-creators and Fromm (Periods with Stan, Mike Decide Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus) serves as a producer/director on Smiling Mates.
Zam Studios’ further credit embody the Smiling Mates shorts, Smiling Symphonies, Billy Idol Ought to Be Useless documentary, and bumpers for Rick & Morty and Grownup Swim.
Zam Studios is represented by Fourth Wall Administration.
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