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STUART CUDLITZ Executive Vice President for Media Solutions / Co-Founder |
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Stuart Cudlitz brings over 25 years of comprehensive experience to Soulware as an artist, writer, filmmaker, creative director and designer of solutions for traditional and digital media. He has worked in the film and broadcast television and location based entertainment industries, the fine arts and music industries and as a writer and educator on interdisciplinary topics. Most recently he has researched and written branding, positioning and design documents providing cross-media solutions to media, entertainment, web based IT, technology, communications, identity and electronics businesses. These have included WIRED VENTURES, Apple Computer, Warner Bros. Records, FCB/Dockers, Global Business Network, Third Age Media, ZD Studios, SoftBank and SoftBank Expos, Excite/@Home, Silicon Gaming, INC., Ninth House Network, Radio.sonicnet and WildBrain.com among others. He has been a Lecturer and panelist at Lawrence Livermore Labs, ITS, Berkeley Extension, San Francisco State University, MacWorld Exposition, Silicon Graphics Development Conference, The Governors Conference on Technology and the Arts and many other media and computer industry events. As the creative director and co-founder of Media Concrete (1995-1998) Mr. Cudlitz supervised development and design across digital media, focusing on public media installations, internet graphic user interface design, on-line branded media applications and hybrid models and prototypes for broadband entertainment and education development. Clients included: IBM Corporation, IBM Consulting, IBM Research Center, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, MSN, AOL, Prodigy, ZDTV, and Purple Moon among others. As the Creative director of Colossal Pictures New Media and Digital Media Divisions (1990-1995) Mr. Cudlitz oversaw the creative development of installation projects, all interactive media productions, user interface design and the studio's integration of traditional and computer graphic technology across all departments and divisions. He facilitated the process to create branded content experiences for CD-ROM, platform games and multi-user online experiences with extendibility to broadband interactivity, television pilots and other media. In 1992 Mr. Cudlitz assembled the team that became the Digital division of the company. This team included Eric Gregory and among other accomplishment led to the developed and integration of traditional and digital media, motion capture and puppeteering hardware and software to produce MOXY, the award winning real-time animated character, for Turner Broadcasting. The clients for Colossals New Media and Digital Divisions included Time Warner, QVC, Prodigy, Ameritech, Apple Computer, Disney, the Cartoon Network and Turner Cable, VIACOM, Fujitsu, SONY, Motorola, TV Guide, Silicon Graphics, Brøderbund / Random House, Electronic Arts / EAKids / 3DO, Hasbro and many of the other first adopters and innovators in new media from the content, telecommunications and electronic industries. Mr. Cudltizs production responsibilities at Colossal Pictures included supervising the creative process flow of all digital productions including model building, effects and motion capture for performance animation, story and design of original CD-ROM titles, design of site specific installations, the design and prototyping of Interactive television prototypes, Internet interface designs and hybrid CD-ROM and on-line interface design commissions. Mr. Cudlitz is widely recognized as a leading thinker in the fields of technology and media convergence. His interdisciplinary and cross-media portfolio represents both the lineage and the legacy of traditional media and exemplifies the contemporary marriage of analog and digital methods, materials and techniques. |
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