{"id":5421,"date":"2010-09-08T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firedbydesign.com\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2013-01-24T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:41:08","slug":"alex-steffen-join-mothership-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firedbydesign.com\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"Alex & Steffen join Mothership crew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Production company Mothership has signed directing duo Alex & Steffen to its roster.<\/p>\n

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Directing duo Alexander Kiesl and Steffen Hacker<\/p><\/div>\n

The studio, which operates as a sister company to Digital Domain<\/a>, now represents the Stuttgart-based pair – Alexander Kiesl and Steffen Hacker – for commercial work in the United States. Alex & Steffen\u2019s visual effects-driven creative work has won numerous awards and earned the pair a reputation for high-energy storytelling, rich filmic visuals, wit and humour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been following Alex & Steffen\u2019s career trajectory for quite some time,\u201d said Mothership President Ed Ulbrich. \u201cThey\u2019ve done brilliant commercial work that\u2019s VFX-heavy and just explodes off the screen. They also demonstrate a talent for drawing out engaging live-action performances from actors and for imbuing their work with entertaining storylines. They\u2019re hugely talented and we\u2019re excited to add them to our roster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex & Steffen met while studying at the prestigious Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg\u2019s Institute of Animation and Visual Effects. For their final student project, they directed \u201cRacing Beats,\u201d a raucous, hysterical photo-real CG Xbox spec spot in which two sets of mad pilots play \u201cchicken\u201d as they race furiously around airport runways in huge commercial airliners. It earned the duo a CFP-E\/Shots New Directors Award at Cannes in 2005 among numerous other awards.<\/p>\n

The directing duo was promptly snapped up by Toronto\u2019s Spy Films (which still represents them in Canada and other countries) and went on to direct and supervise visual effects on more than 30 spots for brands including WWF, Mazda, BOSCH, MTV, Honda and others under various representational banners. A hugely successful campaign Alex & Steffen directed and VFX-supervised for Snickers via BBDO Moscow featuring robot fantasy-animals earned several awards and even brought the term \u2018snickersni\u2019 into the Russian teenage populace\u2019s lexicon. In addition to awards recognition from the Art Directors Club, Animago and others, Alex & Steffen were featured in the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase at Cannes in 2006. They recently completed a series of nine character-based spots via Saatchi & Saatchi for Vestel. Alex also owns Unexpected, a Stuttgart-based post facility that handles the postproduction for all their spots, shorts and features, where Alex is 3D lead artist and Steffen is lead compositor.<\/p>\n

\u201dWhen we get treatments, we read them together, brainstorm together, develop them and work out VFX breakdowns – all together,\u201d said Steffen. \u201cIt\u2019s not one person doing this and the other doing that. We have the same visual language and approach and we\u2019ve just always been on the same page. It\u2019s surprising, but we almost never argue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we heard about what Mothership was doing – not just production, but creative too, we thought it was exactly the right way to go about it,\u201d added Alex. \u201cWe like the model, and the reputation of Digital Domain and Mothership, which executes at the highest technical and creative level. With the transmedia and original content direction that Mothership is taking, there\u2019s so much more potential for us to explore. It\u2019s a cool place to be, especially if you\u2019re post-heavy directors like us who love making movies, no matter how long. Mothership\u2019s the best place in the States to be.\u201d\u2028<\/p>\n

Visit Mothership<\/a><\/p>\n

See work by Alex & Steffen on Spy Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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