| Team Louie Olivas  Louie Olivas, founder and CEO of Cinemolivas Productions, grew up in Tempe, Arizona, along side his three sisters Becky, Jenny, and Katy. In the Kyrene Elementary School District, Louie was involved in the Young Authors Program, and wrote his first book in the First Grade. These early years of creative writing sowed the seeds that lay dormant until Louie was a freshman on the campus of the University of Arizona.After entering the film school and completing several student films, the call to start writing stories grew strong. A year later he had completed a long form treatment which would eventually become the feature screenplay JANCROON. In 2005 the script made its way to Terryl Whitlatch, a top creature designer at Lucasfilm. Louie and Terryl began working on initial concepts, and in late 2005 Louie formed Cinemolivas Productions LLC. Louie and Terryl are also developing an animation/fantasy project entitled BENEDOR. The Jancroon saga will continue with JANCROON: THE SWORDS OF SEMIDRON and JANCROON: BEYOND THE COSMOS. One of Louie’s favorite quotes comes from one of his favorite books in the bible: "A king’s secret it is prudent to keep, but God’s works are made to be known…" - The Archangel Rafael, Tobit 12:7 Harold Stadler Mr. Stadler is President of Cinemolivas Productions, L.L.C., where he manages the selling and development of the company’s products, raising capital and setting future directions for the company. Additionally, Mr. Stadler is President and founder of HS & ASSOCIATES, an investment advisory company, where he is the senior operating manager responsible for managing the operations of the firm. Mr. Stadler is also past founder of three asset management funds where he was in charge of origination, management, structuring, and funding of the funds. Additionally, Mr. Stadler’s prior senior corporate experience was as: 1) CEO of Investment Management Fund; 2) CEO Aerospace Distribution Company; 3) CEO Low Voltage Electrical Company) 4) CEO Direct Marketing/Advertising Company; 5) CEO Real Estate Acquisitions Fund; 6) Managing Partner Real Estate Investments, and 7) has over 25 years of experience in the investment banking, private equity fund management, mergers, acquisitions and commercial banking markets. As a banker, Mr. Stadler has been involved with the sale, financing and acquisition of multiple companies with values totaling in excess of $5 billion. Mr. Stadler also ran a captive private equity fund for Wells Fargo & Co., where he was responsible for executing and structuring real estate and corporate acquisitions for Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Inc. Mr. Stadler spent most of his career in investment and corporate banking. At Wells Fargo he was a Senior Vice President in charge of the Investment Banking function in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Stadler also was a senior manager at two (Roth Capital and Geneva Financial) investment banking firms in Orange County, California where he executed public as well as private corporate finance transactions. Additionally, Mr. Stadler worked several years at Citicorp Securities executing larger transactions on the West Coast. Prior to entering the business world, Mr. Stadler attended Fordham University, New York, N.Y., where he received a degree in finance and Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, where he received his masters in management. Conceptual Artists Terryl Whitlatch (www.katurranodyssey.com) An accomplished, scientific and academically trained illustrator who extensively studied vertebrate zoology and animal anatomy, Terryl Whitlatch has worked for various zoos and museums in the US and The World Wildlife Fund as Senior consultant for Wildlife Art and Animal Anatomy. For over seven years, Terryl worked for Lucasfilm LTD., Industrial Light and Magic and George Lucas' JAK Films and is considered the foremost creature designer in the world. Her unique combination of illustration skills and comprehensive knowledge of animal anatomy and movement are essential components in the design, anatomy and physical animation aspects of creature creation. In her work on the new Star Wars trilogy, she worked directly with George Lucas for whom she designed countless creatures for the films and related products, including CD-ROMs. A collection of her work for Lucasfilm, "The Wildlife of Star Wars," was published by Chronicle Books in 2001 to critical acclaim and popular success. Terryl also designed for many electronic and interactive games for leading publishers including Steven's Spielberg's The Dig. Terryl worked with many major studios and effects houses as a highly sought after creature and concept designer. In addition to her work on Star Wars, her films include Jumanji I and II, The Indian in the Cupboard, Bear Country, Dragonheart and Polar Express. In addition to her continuing work on the Katurran Odyssey series, Terryl is designing fantasy animals for a traditional carousel to be built in her community. Terryl makes her
home with her husband, Tom in Oregon. Ryan started Art Center full-time in Fall '94 with a scholarship, majoring in Transportation Design. He wanted to make sure he learned the nuts and bolts of Industrial Design as well as the Illustration skills- to be able to design a vehicle or an environment that makes sense and looks good and then to depict it in three dimensional space. About halfway through his studies, Art Center started to feature Entertainment Design classes. By that time, he knew he didn't want to be a car designer. Ryan's heart was more in airplanes and architecture. Ryan eventually graduated with honors as a Transportation Design major with emphasis on Entertainment Design. His time at Art Center was really fantastic. The quality of the instructors was high, but he really owes his experience to classmates and upper term students for providing the competition that was essential to push him along. Ryan got a job at Walt Disney Imagineering right out of college and also did some freelancing on the side for Universal Studios. WDI was a great place to work, but a lot of the projects moved too quickly from the ‘blue sky fun’ phase to the engineering, budgeting,... the reality part. A refreshing change came in the form of a job at Industrial Light + Magic in the digital features division. Ryan was at ILM for 3 years before moving up to Skywalker Ranch as a Concept Design Supervisor on Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones and stayed on for Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. He was also a Senior Art Director at ILM where he did a lot of hands-on work during the post-production of Star Wars movies and played a major role in creating the Tripods in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. At the beginning of Episode III pre-production, Ryan went down to Pasadena every weekend to teach Advanced Entertainment Design at Art Center. Response was great, and it was a great experience for him, too. But, his work schedule got too hectic to continue. In late 2003, Ryan got together with Alex Alvarez at Gnomon School of Visual Effects to produce DVD demos. They do not focus on the software but on the techniques he used daily at work. It has been over two years, and they continue to serve as a great substitute to being in his class for those who want to learn to design and paint digitally for feature film, themed environment, and video games. In the Spring of
2005, Ryan relocated to Southern California to start the next chapter
of his career as a freelance concept artist. Ryan still has strong ties
to Industrial Light + Magic, and his client list keeps growing and now
includes Paramount Studios, Mattel, Sony Pictures, Blue Sky Studios,
Walt Disney Feauture Animation, and Electronic Arts. |
