A production company with a director's eye and a crew to match. Our slate leans fantasy and science fiction. Our commercial work has played the Super Bowl contest, broadcast television and Prime Video.
"Snare Trap," our Doritos Crash the Super Bowl entry. Written, directed and finished in house, VFX included. It is still the most watched thing we have made.
A science fiction feature, written and directed by Paul-Thomas L. Parnell. Shot, finished and delivered by this team, then licensed to Amazon. Proof that we can carry a story past ninety minutes, not just past thirty seconds.
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Practical light, cinema glass, a full crew on location in Lillington, North Carolina.
An urban fantasy series set in a New York sized city where magic never went underground. Goblins run the rackets, trolls work the doors, dwarves sit on the council, elves and humans share the subway, and dragons land in the middle of traffic. Two detectives work the cases nobody else will touch. Concept art and lookbook below.
An original urban fantasy series. Book One, The Raven's Gambit, is being written now, with the world built to carry across novels, screen and tabletop. Cover art in progress.
Book One of The Veilbreaker Saga. Written by Paul-Thomas L. Parnell.
Cover shown is a work in progress.
An original animated series in production now. Four kids, one small town, and something in the woods that will not stay there. Character design and key art below; the pilot is being built shot by shot on a multiplane pipeline we run in house.
Strangers in the Pines and a second animated project, both in production on an AI-assisted multiplane pipeline. Layered plates, hand-directed frames, composited and finished in house. A director in every frame instead of handing the look to a model.
Book One, The Raven's Gambit, is in progress. An original urban fantasy world written across novels, screen and tabletop. A second canon, the Kodex of the First Archmagus, runs alongside it.
Black Night: Wands and Order is in development, with a lookbook, concept art and test footage built. We also make sizzles, pilot presentations and pitch packages for other creators taking a show out to buyers.
Produced and hosted shows plus audiobook work, from tracking through mix and release.
Genre shorts and spec pieces, including Stranger Things and Mandalorian fan films that let the VFX team stretch between paid jobs.
Dust World, an actual-play western apocalypse series, and the game material behind it.
Crew up for a shoot in North Carolina, or bring us in for direction, cinematography, VFX, editorial or post on your project.
We back projects we believe in with crew, gear and post in exchange for a stake. Send the script.
Spots for brands that notice craft. Broadcast work for Town Fair Tire, Bow Tie Cinemas and Park City.
Bring an idea. We develop it into a script, a proof of concept, and a package that can go out to buyers.
Partnerships are scoped per project, not per package. Tell us what it is and where it stands. Fantasy and science fiction get read first.
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