Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure

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About Us

Lagoon Black Studios is an animation studio comprised of passionate and talented artists who are dedicated to their craft and use it to bring their client's visions to life. Our many collaborative and eclectic years have served to further stoke the flame for creating appealing art that inspires and evokes emotion.

We specialize in the areas of Branding & Design, 3D Content Creation, and Animation. Each new project is a creative adventure waiting to be explored, and we embrace the thrill and surprise of that adventure and look forward to helping you with yours.

Our Vision

Lagoon Black exists to be a leader in illumination adventures by combining art and highly talented people using the best technology available.

The Crew

  • Larry Vasquez
  • Darrell Vasquez
  • G.L. Vasquez
  • Jason Ryan
  • Odei Addo-Yobo
  • Cathleen Flynn
  • Victor Vinyals
  • Juan Solis
  • Larry Vasquez

    Larry Vasquez
    Creative Director

    (Co-Founder)

    Larry loves animation. While in college working on his communications degree and then his Masters, he began to hone his skills in 3D modeling and Architectural Visualization. Through his brother Darrell he developed a friendship with Jason Ryan, who began to teach him the skills in animation he now applies to every project. Larry has taught 3D modeling at the University level and serves as Media and Communication Manager for iAnimate.
  • Darrell Vasquez

    Darrell Vasquez
    Director/Animation Director

    (Co-Founder)

    Darrell began college as an engineering major before completing his degree at Boston University in Interdisciplinary studies. Following college, while coaching wrestling at Harvard, the drawl of animation brought him to a message board where he encountered Jason Ryan who began to mentor him. From these beginnings, Darrell has worked in Animation for Magnetic Dreams, Insomniac Games, and ReelFX before arriving alongside his brother at Lagoon Black Studios.
  • G.L. Vasquez

    G.L. Vasquez
    Chief Producer

    (Co-Founder)

    G.L. heads up Lagoon Black studios with 30+ years of business experience. He graduated college Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Electronics Engineering and has since served as the CEO of a subsidiary of a Multi-billion dollar company and an Engineering Company. This experience provides the business acumen to guide Lagoon Black adventures.
  • Jason Ryan

    Jason Ryan
    Board of Advisors

    Jason first fell in love with animation while growing up in Ireland. This love led him to study at the Senior College in Ballyfermont, followed by working at Don Bluth Studios, then serving as Supervisor for Disney Animation, and at Dreamworks, before becoming Animation Director at Cinesite. Jason is the founder of the highly respected online animation school iAnimate. Jason brings his years of passion for animation to the Lagoon Black Studios creative team.
  • Odei Addo-Yobo

    Odei Addo-Yobo
    Technical Advisor

    Odei joins Lagoon Black as part of the technical advisory team which assists in providing feedback and recommendations with regard to applied engineering. This is invaluable when designing movement and structures in a 3D environment that have a real world authenticity.
  • Cathleen Flynn

    Cathleen Flynn

    (Remote Team Member)

    Cathleen has scored feature films, dramedies, comedies, documentaries, shorts, children’s programs, commercials, trailers and games. She has also written songs and cues for several tv series and is a featured composer for Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio Show “The View From Here”. In addition to composing, Cathleen has worked on major feature films and tv series, both nationally and internationally as a music/vocal arranger, music editor, and copyist. Cathleen’s talent is an exciting part of the Lagoon Black Project team allowing for the feel of scenes to be magnified.

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  • Victor Vinyals

    Victor Vinyals

    (Remote Team Member)

    Victor is an experienced Technical Director and character rigging artist based in beautiful Barcelona. Before joining the Lagoon Black team, he worked as an animator in Spain, then began in character rigging at Barcelona-based studio Furia Digital. Following this he moved to the UK to work in Aardman Animations as Senior Character TD and had the chance to work on different feature films co-produced with Sony Imageworks. His work in custom character rigs for visual effects, feature animation and video games have been utilized in projects around the world. He brings these years of passion, knowledge of industry standards to provide Lagoon Black the high quality rigs.

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  • Juan Solis

    Juan Solis

    (Remote Team Member)

    Juan is a passionate character developer resolved to deliver clean and detail character models tailored to the design and use. His 20 year professional career expands into several production areas including Visual Effects, full CG feature films, commercials, game cinematics and video games. Having worked for some of the biggest studios including Walt Disney animation, Dreamworks, Ilion Animation and Blur Studios, he has been involved in projects such Frozen, ThrollHunters, Planet 51, League of Legends, Spiderman, and filled a diverse set of roles during my career, covering such as Character artist, Lead artist, Character supervisor.

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Projects Highlights

"I Otter Clean Up" PSA

Lagoon Black Studios had the amazing opportunity working with Raft Animation on this unique public service announcement. We handled the full production and enjoyed bringing this cute little character, Oliver, to life. We are very proud of the team and all involved.

The Knockout

Clark Pest Control's tag line is "Clark we need you!". So when we were introduced to the company for this first commercial we felt we could have a lot of fun pushing their Clark character to be an actual super hero. This commercial was developed in house from script through final production.

Services

Branding & Design
3D Content Creation
Animation

Contact

Contact Us
(661) 310-0315

Address

4701 Corporate Ct.
Bakersfield, CA 93311

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