Cloud Computing, On-Site Collaboration Key to New Studio's Services

The Brigade, a specialized animation and visual effects studio, has been launched by David Dimeola and Gavin Guerra to provide a variety of mobile and cloud-based creative services to corporations, advertising agencies, and production and postproduction companies.
Responding to the needs of clients who can take advantage of on-site creative collaboration, Dimeola and Guerra deploy custom creative teams equipped to take a project from ideation to completion working closely with client creatives.

“We’re like an A-Team that rapidly goes to where we’re needed,” says Guerra.

The studio is currently assembling a well-vetted remote creative team that will be integral to The Brigade’s cloud-based initiative. “There’s a large reservoir of freelance talent-not necessarily living in major cities— who we tap into,” says Dimeola. “We believe we can bring fresh, creative approaches to the work via our cloud-based structure. If freelancers work remotely via the cloud, physical space constraints disappear, traditional work hours become irrelevant, and services are provided to multiple clients at any given time.”

The Brigade has recently provided special teams for Smoke & Mirrors, Outpost Digital, and an animated piece for Behance Network marketing . Projects involved such clients as BMW, Sirius, Honda, and The New York City Parks Department.

Prior to forming The Brigade, Dimeola started out with Click 3X as a visual effects artist and later freelanced with Imaginary Forces, CA-Square, Spontaneous, YES Network (as art director, he established a graphics department creating all on-air content for the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets), and Food Network. He has worked with such brands as HBO, Travel Channel, Continental Airlines, ESPN, GM, Levis and Gatorade.

Guerra has been creating award winning, high-end visual effects worldwide for 20 years. His experience ranges from feature film and TV commercials, to video games and immersive installation art. As a technical director, Guerra worked on commercials for Ritz Crackers, Crystal Light, Nickelodeon, LG, Pepperidge Farm, Microsoft, Dr. Scholl’s, Coca-Cola, Smart Balance, Burger King and many others.

For more information: www.thebrigade.tv.