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Thilo Kuther, the German founder of the international visual effects company Pixomondo, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Marina del Rey, his nephew, Niklas Fissel, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 58.
A native of Frankfurt, Kuther launched Pixomondo in 2001 out of Stuttgart, creating video installations and 3D animation for corporate clients before jumping into films four years later. By 2012, it had offices in those two cities and 10 others: Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Shanghai, Beijing, London, Toronto, Santa Monica, Burbank and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
By 2018, Pixomondo had added branches in Vancouver and Montreal to go with its two offices in China, plus London, Frankfurt and Stuttgart.
“It’s about finding a spot that is capable of doing great work and then joining the other facilities to share the work [among them],” he said in 2012.
Pixomondo’s notable credits include Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), which won five Oscars,...
Thilo Kuther, the German founder of the international visual effects company Pixomondo, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Marina del Rey, his nephew, Niklas Fissel, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 58.
A native of Frankfurt, Kuther launched Pixomondo in 2001 out of Stuttgart, creating video installations and 3D animation for corporate clients before jumping into films four years later. By 2012, it had offices in those two cities and 10 others: Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Shanghai, Beijing, London, Toronto, Santa Monica, Burbank and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
By 2018, Pixomondo had added branches in Vancouver and Montreal to go with its two offices in China, plus London, Frankfurt and Stuttgart.
“It’s about finding a spot that is capable of doing great work and then joining the other facilities to share the work [among them],” he said in 2012.
Pixomondo’s notable credits include Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), which won five Oscars,...
- 12/3/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina and Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pixomondo, the award-winning VFX and virtual production company, has hired VFX veteran Bryan Godwin as Head of Studio for its Los Angeles facility.
Godwin has two decades of business and artistic experience at Shade VFX, which he founded in 2009, and more recently at Dneg. His credits include being VFX Supervisor on Joker, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Wolverine, and Shade won an Emmy for his work on Westworld while he was personally nominated for Daredevil.
The LA-headquartered Pixomondo has eight offices around the world. Its recent credits out of the West Coast include Westworld, working alongside Shade, as well as Raised By Wolves, Perry Mason, Westworld, The Orville, Goliath, Greenland, and Midway.
It also recently opened its first virtual production studio and LED volume in Toronto, Canada, with plans underway to open other facilities across North America, Europe, and China. Upcoming projects include the Roland Emmerich film Moonfall, the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse,...
Godwin has two decades of business and artistic experience at Shade VFX, which he founded in 2009, and more recently at Dneg. His credits include being VFX Supervisor on Joker, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Wolverine, and Shade won an Emmy for his work on Westworld while he was personally nominated for Daredevil.
The LA-headquartered Pixomondo has eight offices around the world. Its recent credits out of the West Coast include Westworld, working alongside Shade, as well as Raised By Wolves, Perry Mason, Westworld, The Orville, Goliath, Greenland, and Midway.
It also recently opened its first virtual production studio and LED volume in Toronto, Canada, with plans underway to open other facilities across North America, Europe, and China. Upcoming projects include the Roland Emmerich film Moonfall, the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Pixomondo, the award-winning visual effects company whose credits include “Game of Thrones,” has appointed Jonny Slow as its new global CEO, the company announced Tuesday.
Slow, who takes up his new role with immediate effect, joined Pixomondo in 2018 to help set up the effects house’s next growth steps following investment from the London-based Mayfair Equity Partners. These included announcing plans for a Montreal office to open this year. He will work closely with company founder and president Thilo Kuther and Mayfair to further plan and maintain the strategic direction of Pixomondo.
“Jonny has been working with us intensively since October last year and I am looking forward to working with him in this new capacity,” said Kuther. “I am extremely excited for what lies ahead of us.”
With the opening of its Montreal facility, Pixomondo, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, will operate eight offices in four countries: the U.
Slow, who takes up his new role with immediate effect, joined Pixomondo in 2018 to help set up the effects house’s next growth steps following investment from the London-based Mayfair Equity Partners. These included announcing plans for a Montreal office to open this year. He will work closely with company founder and president Thilo Kuther and Mayfair to further plan and maintain the strategic direction of Pixomondo.
“Jonny has been working with us intensively since October last year and I am looking forward to working with him in this new capacity,” said Kuther. “I am extremely excited for what lies ahead of us.”
With the opening of its Montreal facility, Pixomondo, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, will operate eight offices in four countries: the U.
- 5/14/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Less than a year after Mayfair Equity Partners completed a majority investment in Pixomondo, the VFX house behind the Emmy-winning HBO series Game of Thrones and the Oscar-winning 2011 film Hugo, has upped Jonny Slow to the role of global CEO.
Pixomondo founder Thilo Kuther, who previously was CEO, will continue in his additional role as president and executive producer. Slow will work with Kuther, COO Sara Mustafa and CFO Alexi Papadakis to oversee the running of Pixomondo. New Mayfair shareholders will additionally work with them in strategic planning.
Britain-born Slow was previously U.S. divisional CEO of television ...
Pixomondo founder Thilo Kuther, who previously was CEO, will continue in his additional role as president and executive producer. Slow will work with Kuther, COO Sara Mustafa and CFO Alexi Papadakis to oversee the running of Pixomondo. New Mayfair shareholders will additionally work with them in strategic planning.
Britain-born Slow was previously U.S. divisional CEO of television ...
Less than a year after Mayfair Equity Partners completed a majority investment in Pixomondo, the VFX house behind the Emmy-winning HBO series Game of Thrones and the Oscar-winning 2011 film Hugo, has upped Jonny Slow to the role of global CEO.
Pixomondo founder Thilo Kuther, who previously was CEO, will continue in his additional role as president and executive producer. Slow will work with Kuther, COO Sara Mustafa and CFO Alexi Papadakis to oversee the running of Pixomondo. New Mayfair shareholders will additionally work with them in strategic planning.
Britain-born Slow was previously U.S. divisional CEO of television ...
Pixomondo founder Thilo Kuther, who previously was CEO, will continue in his additional role as president and executive producer. Slow will work with Kuther, COO Sara Mustafa and CFO Alexi Papadakis to oversee the running of Pixomondo. New Mayfair shareholders will additionally work with them in strategic planning.
Britain-born Slow was previously U.S. divisional CEO of television ...
Visual effects house Pixomondo, which won three Emmys for its dragon work on HBO's Game of Thrones and an Oscar for its VFX work on Martin Scorsese's Hugo, is preparing to open its third studio in Canada, this time in Montreal.
The Los Angeles-based VFX house aims to take advantage of Quebec's animation talent pool and film tax credits.
"Montreal has a lot of visual effects artists and technological architects with unprecedented talent," Pixomondo founder and CEO Thilo Kuther said Wednesday in a statement.
The VFX house already has outposts in Vancouver and Toronto, as it ...
The Los Angeles-based VFX house aims to take advantage of Quebec's animation talent pool and film tax credits.
"Montreal has a lot of visual effects artists and technological architects with unprecedented talent," Pixomondo founder and CEO Thilo Kuther said Wednesday in a statement.
The VFX house already has outposts in Vancouver and Toronto, as it ...
- 11/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Visual effects house Pixomondo, which won three Emmys for its dragon work on HBO's Game of Thrones and an Oscar for its VFX work on Martin Scorsese's Hugo, is preparing to open its third studio in Canada, this time in Montreal.
The Los Angeles-based VFX house aims to take advantage of Quebec's animation talent pool and film tax credits.
"Montreal has a lot of visual effects artists and technological architects with unprecedented talent," Pixomondo founder and CEO Thilo Kuther said Wednesday in a statement.
The VFX house already has outposts in Vancouver and Toronto, as it ...
The Los Angeles-based VFX house aims to take advantage of Quebec's animation talent pool and film tax credits.
"Montreal has a lot of visual effects artists and technological architects with unprecedented talent," Pixomondo founder and CEO Thilo Kuther said Wednesday in a statement.
The VFX house already has outposts in Vancouver and Toronto, as it ...
- 11/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a recent interview with Gamespot, Thilo Kuther (CEO of Pixomondo) discussed how Daenarys’ pet dragons were created for Game of Thrones. He mentions that when the dragons were tiny in Season 2, it wasn’t that bad animating the dragons, but as the seasons went on “they began focusing exclusively on the dragons, as the beasts became exponentially more complex and demanding to animate.” This apparently caused a lot of discussion in the office and the animators naturally turned to the real world for examples of how these creatures might actually work as Kuther tells it:
.When they got bigger in Season 3 and 4, there was a lot of, ‘So if a dragon is this big, how can it lift itself up? What is it? Is it a bat? Or is it a bird? Is it an eagle? And the amount of energy that went into these discussions is beyond belief...
.When they got bigger in Season 3 and 4, there was a lot of, ‘So if a dragon is this big, how can it lift itself up? What is it? Is it a bat? Or is it a bird? Is it an eagle? And the amount of energy that went into these discussions is beyond belief...
- 11/10/2017
- by Tommy Wiliams
- GeekTyrant
Pixomondo, a visual-effects company that counts "Game of Thrones" and "Star Trek Into Darkness" among its credits, has not paid numerous freelance workers in its office in Frankfurt, Germany, TheWrap has learned. Some workers report that they have waited months to get compensated and that there have been headaches involved with how the company processes invoices. In some cases, workers have ended their contracts early. Pixomondo CEO and founder Thilo Kuther acknowledged that roughly 20 freelancers had not been paid and attributed the issue to a cashflow crunch the company experienced at...
- 8/22/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Twenty-three people have been let go after Pixomondo shuttered its Berlin office last week, the visual-effects company's CEO and founder Thilo Kuther told TheWrap on Monday. Pixomondo maintained five facilities in Germany in such cities as Frankfurt and Stuttgart and Kuther said it no longer needed to have a presence in Berlin. "Berlin is not such an important market," Kuther said. "This is part of our consolidation." Also read: Pixomondo, VFX Company for 'Oblivion,' Closes Berlin Office TheWrap reported last month that Kuther laid off 20 visual effects artists while closing his Shanghai branch. He...
- 4/30/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Pixomondo will close its Berlin offices on May 31, the visual-effects company behind "Oblivion" and "Hugo" said on Facebook. CEO and founder Thilo Kuther did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but a message in German said the closure was part of a company-wide restructuring process. It said outstanding invoices would be honored. Already this year, the Santa Monica-based company has shut down branches in Shanghai, London and Detroit. The move also comes as the visual-effects industry has been hit hard by shrinking profit margins and layoffs. Also read: VFX Flap...
- 4/29/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Visual-effects company Pixomondo will move away from the film business after shutting its Shanghai office in the wake of closures in London and Detroit, the company told TheWrap. CEO and founder Thilo Kuther (pictured below) said Pixomondo, which recently completed work on the Tom Cruise action film "Oblivion," has just laid off roughly 20 animators and artists in the Shanghai office. About a half-dozen employees were moved to its Beijing office, he said. Most significantly, Kuther told TheWrap that Pixomondo, based in nearly a dozen cities worldwide, is moving away from Hollywood...
- 4/1/2013
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
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