Athena Studios

27/05/2024

Shooting interviews for the Visual Effects Society Luminaries series yesterday.

We were incredibly honored to have John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Don Bies, and Phil Tippett on our stage. It was great to hear the stories from these amazing Lucasfilm artists; their love for the craft of filmmaking and their creativity are inspirational.

Thank you for all of your help Timothy Edward Taylor. And thank you for conducting the interviews Lisa Cooke and David W Valentin. 🧡

16/08/2019

If you like animals today was a pretty fun day to be at the studio. If you don't like animals? Well, we feel bad for you. :)

Their names are Huckleberry and Breezy BTW.

26/04/2019

Sorry to have been away for so long. Happy to be working with in the studio with my buddies Justin Kohn and Noah Glasoe again. Working on wrapping this short on facing fear and being empowered. Getting close!

21/12/2018

Woot! Our lonely snowman animation got a write up:

https://www.thesfegotist.com/news/2018/12/19/humankindness-extends-to-snowmen-too/

At the SF Egotist, many of us will admit that holiday gatherings and spending time with family can be stressful. But science has proven human connection can actually make us healthier. That's why Dignity Health is out with an updated version of a digital spot called The Lonely Snowman. They've decid...

03/12/2018

Looks like Dignity Health will be re-running the animation we did for them last year for the 2018 holiday season. Pretty cool!

https://youtu.be/asRcgLDUKqE

A heartwarming tale about a snowman all alone on a wintery day—and the sweet surprises that lift his spirits. It's a message to keep close year-round. ...

21/03/2018

Athena is looking for some awesomely talented people who would like to share some of our studio space.

Fully built edit suite with color grading equipment, 25x25ft green screen stage, audio recording booth, makeup/wardrobe room and more. We have been home to Pixar, Disney and LucasFilm as well as National Geographic and a couple of feature films.

If you're a producer and looking to get into a turnkey space let us know. Would love to have more activity on this awesome stage.

28/10/2017

Was great to be asked to help film some of this. The Visual Effects Society puts on some tremendous events and this one with Phil Tippett was no exception.

05/10/2017

Trailer from for the stop-motion we did last year at this time. And it’s back up again for this Halloween!

22/09/2017

Remembering working on this awesome stop motion short with and Chester. Great fun!

14/09/2017

Did we mention that we filmed 40 amazing short interviews with many of the artist behind Star Wars? Now available to view for free on our site at athenastudios.com/StarWars

08/09/2017

Award-winning Athena Studios is a San Francisco Bay Area film, video, animation and effects production studio. We do stop motion animation as well as digital effects, film restoration, live event streaming and green screen sound stage rentals for the Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Rich...

06/09/2017

LucasFilm in the house this week (do people still say 'in the house'?). Anyway, cannot show anything obviously, so here is a cool logo. You're welcome. :)

17/08/2017

In the studio today helping with something for Pixar. Cannot show anything unfortunately so hope this Luxo lamp does the trick.

04/08/2017

Working on a new stop-motion post production reel. Here is a first draft. New one coming next week with some different shots. Reel put together by our very own .

02/08/2017

Sorry to have been away. In the studio today with the amazing Pete Docter, Craig "Spike" Decker and Kat Alioshin for the filming of the Spike and Mike documentary. Such wonderful people!

14/07/2017

Starting tomorrow - three days of The Mouse.

15/05/2017

New animation reel out today. Added some new things and took out some others. Hope you enjoy it.

https://vimeo.com/205467357

Latest animation reel from Athena Studios in Emeryville, CA 02.23.2017

15/05/2017

04/05/2017

May the 4th be with you!

02/05/2017

Another behind the scenes shot for the Adobe Character Animator project.

28/04/2017

Working on set design for Adobe with the amazing Tom Proost.

18/04/2017

In the studio today working on a fun little animation with the amazing Justin Kohn.

15/04/2017

Stop motion Leonardo Da Vinci for the March for Science on Earth Day, April 22. Produced by Aerial Contrivance and animated by Timothy Hittle. Shot at Athena Studios.

08/04/2017

Was very fortunate to get to visit Skywalker Ranch last week with a friend of mine. Super fun trip! And before you ask, that's not my car.

24/03/2017

Cannot say much about it but excited to be working on a special project with Adobe. More info to come.

01/03/2017

Just finished the new stop-motion production reel. Thanks to Noah Glasoe at Athena for his great editing work on this.

https://vimeo.com/205467357

Latest animation reel from Athena Studios in Emeryville, CA 02.23.2017

11/02/2017

We were honored to host the team from Adobe After Effects at Athena Studios yesterday, including its inventor!

They were here to show us their latest software Adobe Character Animator. Pretty amazing application and we cannot wait to play.

Had a few guests from other studios joining us as well. A great afternoon!

22/12/2016

Afraid we ran out of time to create a holiday animation this year. So here is little something we are recycling from last year to wish everyone a happy holiday!

05/12/2016

Working with Webster Colcord this past weekend on building some stop-motion cows to bring to life.

15/11/2016

Happy to announce that Mermaids on Mars just won Best Animation in the Nevada International Film Festival.

Congratulations to our talented producer Nancy Guettier and the entire crew. Very proud to have been a part of this team.