GFL Animation Studios: Riders of Berk

Dreamworks

"Dragons Riders of Berk"

When APU, a division of W!ldBrain Entertainment, first worked on Dragons: Riders of Berk, they hired Go For Launch Productions to assist with the development of some new characters for the series. Creating 3D character models that are true to the design is a very difficult and exacting art, especially human characters. One of the best tools to assist the modeler in this task are isometric technical turns and facial expressions; basically blueprints for the modeler to follow which enables them to create the 3D model with few or no revisions. We created these technical drawings for 11 of the new characters designed for this TV series.

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Our Company History

Go For Launch Productions Animation Studio was founded in 2006 by Philip and Lorraine Cruden, with the goal of providing Production Design and Art Direction for animated movies, TV shows and the video game industries. Philip has 23 years experience in the animation business. To date Phil has worked on 9 feature films, 322 TV episodes, 4 direct to video films and 5 video games. Together he and his team of professional artists at GFLP have created designs for 4 feature films Including "Ratchet & Clank", "HOP, "BUNYAN AND BABE", "The Hero of Color City", 50 "PLANET SHEEN" TV episodes and 90 "BACK AT THE BARNYARD" TV episodes for which they won a Special Recognition EMMY Award for season 2008-2009. The team has also designed 4 video games. Phil and his team created three short 5 minute film for a game Disney will be releasing. Our current project is our own IP App Game called "Spaceman Skip and the Nebublobs" Coming soon the the App Store. Lorraine has a Bachelor of Business degree from Ryerson Polytechnic University and 8 years experience in the animation industry. Click on the link below to see full bios of the company founders.