Meet our core-team
With over 17 years of experience in the animation and visual effects field, we deliver Hollywood-caliber services for Film, Video, Commercials, and Animation. Our artists are industry leaders employing cutting-edge techniques to bring your vision to life. We are immersed in the international marketplace and will polish your project to a global standard of excellence.
“There’s nothing creative about living within your means.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
SAM SARRAF: Creative Director
Is a visual artist based in San Francisco, CA.
With an MFA in animation & visual effects and over 15 years in the industry, his skill set includes a wide range of specialties across the advertisement, animation and visual effects fields such as: Compositing, texturing, lighting, rendering, matchmoving, matte painting & environment creation, 2D design and photography.
KARL FURNANDER: VFX Supervisor
Is a VFX and CG animator with over 20 years experience in Film , TV, and commercial production.
An Alumni of California Institute of the Arts he has worked for many production studios including....
Warner Brothers, Disney, LightStorm Entertainment, Zoic Studios, Radium, Technicolor, Reel FX, New Deal Studios and MPC. to name a few. He has supervised and consulted in the USA and abroad in India , Jordan, and China.
JOSEPH SKORMAN: Producer/Editor/Colorist
Is an artist, director, an accomplished editor, and an animator. A writer, illustrator, producer and now adding to that list an actor. He is the co-creator of Loose Cannons, and is creator of PANIC Productions. He is a two time Telly award winning editor (2013-Silver, 2014-Bronze), and has won a silver Telly (2015) for his motion graphics work for the credit animation sequence at the end of LOOSE CANNONS (2015).
RENATA AKHUNOVA: Communication
Renata has over 10-year experience of working in media and communications. She was the founder of a publishing house which she successfully sold to a strategic investor, and continued as an advisor to top managers and companies on public and government relations.
NICOLE BECKERMAN: Marketing
Originally a dancer/costumer from Seattle, WA, Nicole traveled the world serving as a business force of one before residing in Cairo, Egypt temporarily to co-manage a costume design house in 2009-2010. Discovering a passion for business, she returned to Oakland, CA in late 2010 to finish her BA in International Relations, and promptly began doing marketing strategy analysis and social media communications for several high tech ventures in the greater Bay Area. When offered the prestigious Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women in Business Scholarship in 2011, she decided to continue her academic track and complete an MBA at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College. Since finishing at the top of her class, Nicole has continued to serve as a marketing consultant to various organizations while launching a clothing line to further express her creative side.