Worker Studio is an American animation and visual effects company based in

Centennial, Colorado Centennial is a home rule city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 108,418 at the 2020 United States census, making Centennial the 11th most populous municipality in Colorado. Centennial is a principal ...

, founded in 2009 by Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot. The company has provided

visual effects Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...

for a number of short films including Angela Bettis' segment ''E is for Exterminate'' in the horror anthology film The ABCs of Death. In 2013, the studio began developing an animated adaptation of Phil Hartman's comedy album, ''Phil Hartman's Flat TV'', which was posthumously released in 2002 after he performed and recorded it in 1978. The studio is also the production company behind the animated documentary ''John Ross: American'', based on the life of World War II pilot John H. Ross. Former Disney Artist Barry Kooser joined the studio as a partner and Chief Creative Officer until 2015. Hemschoot and Kooser met while teaching animation at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. In 2017, the studio released an original animated,

stop motion Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exh ...

short film, titled ''Camping a la Bergman'', a parody inspired to be an homage to Swedish filmmaker

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoun ...

, by utilizing black and white cinematography, somber classical music and existential Swedish dialogue. The short appeared at a number of film festivals, including Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival and StopTrik International Film Festival. It was broadcast on Colorado Public Television and streaming on e360TV, a VOD platform.

References

External links

Official website - www.worker-studio.com

Worker Studio credits on IMDB.com
{{Animation industry in the United States American animation studios Visual effects companies Entertainment companies of the United States Companies based in Centennial, Colorado Entertainment companies established in 2009