Intelligent Creatures

Intelligent Creatures is a creatively driven Visual Effects house dedicated to helping some of cinema’s finest directors tell some of cinema’s most compelling stories. With fully integrated 2D & 3D compositing and animation pipelines and a wealth of on-set experience, the Company stands among the industry’s most progressive VFX creators. Intelligent Creatures relentlessly pursues its mission to be the leading company in the world providing Visual Effects that play a strong supporting role in high-end creatively driven feature films.

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Portfolio

Currently in Production

*"Watchmen (film)", Warner Brothers, Director: Zack Snyder
*"Traitor (film)", Overture Films/Mandeville Films/Hyde Park Films, Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Completed Projects

* "The Game Plan", Walt Disney Pictures, Director: Andy Fickman
* "The Hunting Party", The Weinstein Company, Director: Richard Shepard
* "Hairspray", New Line Cinema, Director: Adam Shankman
* "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium", Mandate Pictures, Director: Zach Helm
* "The Number 23", New Line Cinema, Director: Joel Schumacher
* "Babel", Paramount Pictures, Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
* "Stranger Than Fiction (film)", Sony Pictures Entertainment, Director: Marc Forster
* "Silent Hill", Tristar Pictures, Director: Christophe Gans
* "The Sentinel", New Regency Pictures, Director: Clark Johnson
* "The Fountain", New Regency Pictures/Warner Brothers Pictures, Director: Darren Aronofsky
* "The Matador", Miramax Films, Director: Richard Shepard
* "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", New Regency Pictures, Director: Doug Liman
* "Stay", New Regency Pictures, Director: Marc Forster
* "The New World", New Line Cinemas, Director: Terrence Malick
* "Romance & Cigarettes", United Artists, Director: John Turturro

Interviews

* [http://www.cgchannel.com/news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=7125 CGChannel interview with CEO and Visual Effects Supervisor, Lon Molnar] conducted by Gabriela Muñoz (February 2008)
* [http://www.playbackonline.ca/articles/magazine/20071015/ic.html?word=intelligent&word=creatures Playback interview with CEO, Lon Molnar] conducted by Leigh Stuart (October 2007)
* [http://intelligentcreatures.com/images/news/hparty_magarticle.pdf Enroute talks to IC about "The Hunting Party"] (September 2007)
* [http://www.cgw.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=E4E01CD9AE5C46E499A44E34431CF4D7 Computer Graphics talks to IC about "Hairspray"] (July 2007)
* [http://www.playbackonline.ca/articles/magazine/20070430/creatures.html Playback catches up with IC and "Hairspray"] (April 2007)
* [http://www.fxguide.com/article414.html FXGuide talks to IC about "Number 23"] (April 2007)
* [http://www.mania.com/53736.html Interview with Intelligent Creatures CEO & President] conducted by Pat Ferrara at Mania.com. (February 2007)
* [http://www.mania.com/mania-talks-vfx-firm-intelligent-creatures_article_53736.html Mania talks with VFX firm IC] (February 2007)
* [http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=1e242f07&atype=articles&id=3188&page=1 VFXWorld talks "Babel" with IC] (February 2007)
* [http://www.fxguide.com/article387.html FXGuide interviews IC about "Babel"] (December 2006)
* [http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3866 CGSociety talks to IC about "The Fountain"] (November 2006)
* [http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=1e242f07&atype=articles&id=3087 VFXWorld interviews IC about "The Fountain"] (November 2006)
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/outsider.html Wired interviews Darren Aronofsky about "The Fountain"] (November 2006)
* [http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=1e242f07&atype=articles&id=3056 VFXWorld "Babel"s with IC] (October 2006)
* [http://www.playbackonline.ca/articles/magazine/20061016/intelligentcreatures.html Playback talks to IC] (October 2006)
* [http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=1e242f07&atype=articles&id=2857 VFXWorld talks to IC about "Sentinel"] (April 2006)
* [http://www.eyeonline.com/Web/EyeonWeb/Press/DisplayArticle.aspx?articleid=191 Eyeon Press Release for IC's work on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"] (June 2005)
* [http://www.theasc.com/magazine/feb03/razzle/sidebar.html Ron Magid interviews IC about VFX for "Chicago"] (February 2003)

History

The co-founders of Intelligent Creatures, Michael Hatton, Lon Molnar, Wendy Lanning and Raymond Gieringer met while working in the Visual Effects Industry in Toronto, Ontario Canada, each of them holding senior positions, covering all aspects of visual effects production; visual effects supervision, digital compositing, 3D animation and production management. In October of 2007, CEO Lon Molnar and COO Michael Hatton assumed full ownership and executive management of Intelligent Creatures Inc.

Officially opening its doors in 2003, Intelligent Creatures has attracted such clients as Warner Brothers, Miramax Films, MGM, New Line Cinema, and 20th Century Fox.

References

External links

* [http://www.intelligentcreatures.com/ Intelligent Creatures official web site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0108509/ IMDB Link]