VFX artists Vico Sharabani as well as Alex Frisch have joined in the month of February to launch COPA (Co-Op of Artists), a global group of high-end VFX artists operating in the commercial and feature film industries.
COPA is based on a unique model - a virtual studio that is connected via hubs in strategic cities around the world. The new group is structured around COPA headquarters in LA and NY, anchored in NY by EP Yfat Neev, former Rhino and Gravity FX EP, and in LA by acting EP Steve Reiss, former Speed shape and Sea Level VFX EP.
“We take high-end VFX function in a never-before-seen model and an A-level team to produce not just a corporation, but a community of the world’s greatest ability,” mentioned Sharabani as well as Alex Frisch USA in the course of this releasing. “This is a new collaborative model that will upend the current landscape, allowing us to adapt to projects of any scope by taking the best talent in the world anywhere on the planet at any time.”
Working in a co-op structure, COPA artists will convene daily in a common cloud-based online workspace, eliminating constraints of time and distance. Following a motto of “virtual, but also local,” COPA’s model provides clients with face-to-face contact via unique online tools, as well as local spaces to meet and check on work. Each local office is equipped with meeting and viewing spaces, and will soon roll out proprietary technologies the studio is developing.
After a year of noiselessly tweaking this new model with tasks for Lincoln and Crayola via McGarry Bowen, the studio is coming over to living with the release of the music video “Turn me on” for David Guetta and Nicki Minaj. 150 shots for the feature film A Late Quartet, and a new P&G commercial for Leo Burnett directed by Dave Meyers from Radical Media.
Alex Frisch, co-founder of Method Studios, has been working on this new business model for more than two years. “Meeting with Vico less than a year ago was the catalyst that ignited COPA and brought our common visions to life,” Frisch said at the launching time.
Sharabani, founding father of RhinoFX, is back in the VFX fray following a yearlong sector sabbatical, where he had his second kid, got in the TED community, as well as investing time to non-profit and environmentally friendly work.
“It’s like I met another me,” noted Alex Frisch USA. “We both moved to the US in the late ’90s and started what turned out to be wildly successful VFX shops in 1998 and left them at around the same time in 2009. Now we’re both ready to re-imagine the future of VFX together.”
The studio’s international collaborative 'network ' involves COPA head office in L. A. and also New York, and unions with existing studios in Chicago, Tel -Aviv, Toronto, Serbia, London as well as Paris.
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