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    Daniel Pernikoff joins Framestore’s Chicago office as sr. art director

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    CHICAGO --

    Framestore has added sr. art director Daniel Pernikoff to its Chicago office team.

    Pernikoff has worked in the visual effects and motion industry for over 15 years as an art director, lead compositor, and animator across film, television, and advertising. After starting his career at Digital Kitchen in Chicago, Pernikoff moved to New York where he worked with top studios. He has collaborated on several high profile projects including the Comedy Central rebrand, title sequences and scenes for the best-selling game God of War, the title sequence for AMC’s period drama Hell on Wheels, and led the team in charge of creating animations for an enormous 25k display designed for the launch of one of Microsoft’s flagship stores.

    After returning to Chicago, Pernikoff worked with Method, Vitamin, Filmworkers, and most recently Carbon, as well as with brands such as Budweiser, Google, McDonald’s, Nike, and ESPN, among others.

    At Framestore Pernikoff will bring his talents to projects across the Integrated Advertising division, working on everything from early creative conception, motion tests, look dev, compositing, in addition to mentoring the creative team. 

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