The veteran filmmakers’ new tech-driven production company, located on the Fox lot, is leveraging its proprietary Unreal Engine-based real-time cross-platform pipeline to concurrently develop transmedia properties across animated series, features, and immersive games.
Filmmaking veterans Jason Chen and Ted Gagliano have launched Desert Eclipse, a tech-driven creative production company that leverages its proprietary Unreal Engine-based real-time cross-platform pipeline to develop transmedia properties across animated TV series, feature films, and immersive games simultaneously.The company’s lab and real-time stage are located on the Fox Studios lot in Century City.
By building and enabling all assets in-engine, the company’s animation and virtual production workflows allows concurrent development of actors, characters, environments, props and shared worlds for multiple platforms and IP, enabling greater creative flexibility, efficiency, standardization, and fidelity.Gagliano serves as the company’s chairman.Previously, he worked as president of feature post-production at 20th Century Fox, overseeing more than 700 films including , and .
He co-founded the Fox Innovation Lab, overseeing production of Wild-The VR Experience (Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern) and .Chen serves as the company’s CEO, founder and executive producer.His credits include , and .
Regarding his new company, Chen told AWN, “At desert eclipse we’ve created a safe haven for Animation to flourish across film, television, short form content and gaming.By using technology as the wind in our sails we provide the foundation for artists of all kinds to fully realize the projects in which they never knew they could make.The era of animation is now, and it’s our responsibility to bring a century of legacy filmmaking experience into the animated digital future.” Additional members of the executive team are COO Rachel Pinchbeck, who previously worked at companies including Bron Studios, Netflix and Google, and served as a producer on the Beatles-inspired Netflix series .
Gagliano’s Bunker Comics label, a catalogue of graphic novels from the Madefire publishing library, was merged into Desert Eclipse, which plans to leverage the IP library into animated content.“Being on the historic Fox Studios lot is symbolic for us,” Gagliano stated.“It’s where some of the greatest cinematic stories were made, and now we’re carrying that legacy forward – infusing it with real-time innovation that redefine what’s possible for creators from all backgrounds and areas of expertise.
We’re building a studio for the future – one that’s filmmaker-first, tech-enabled, and globally connected.By developing our own IP and streamlining real-time production, Desert Eclipse is creating a new model for how stories are told, shared, and experienced.”
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
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