Gasket Studios
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- Founded
- 2005
- Employees
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About Gasket Studios
Gasket Studios is an independent creative agency and content studio based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 2005, it grew from an animation-focused company into a creative team working across strategy, storytelling, production, and post-production. Its work connects animation and visual effects with live-action filmmaking and interactive experiences for advertising agencies, brands, and entertainment clients.
The studio develops projects from brand discovery and campaign concepts through scripts, storyboards, visual development, and finished content. Its animation capabilities span traditional cel animation, 2D motion graphics, 3D character animation, character design, and rigging. These disciplines support work ranging from animated mascots and product imagery to explanatory films and narrative cinematics.
Production and finishing
Gasket combines live-action direction with animation and visual effects. Its production services include on-set direction, production management, and VFX supervision, followed by compositing, editing, color finishing, and sound integration. Technical work includes green-screen replacement, digital product creation and replacement, CG set extensions, cleanup, and the integration of animated elements into filmed environments. The studio also adapts finished material for different distribution platforms.
Its live-action offering includes Engines Running, an internal collective launched in 2019 that brings together commercial and narrative directors. This expands the studio's approach to story-driven commercials, broadcast work, documentaries, and corporate video while drawing on its established animation and post-production capabilities.
Interactive storytelling
Alongside linear content, Gasket develops augmented reality applications, web AR activations, virtual reality simulations, 360-degree video, and interactive trade show installations. These projects extend its visual storytelling into product demonstrations, sales tools, training, and branded experiences that audiences can explore directly.
The studio serves consumer goods, technology, retail, automotive, healthcare, financial services, agriculture, and entertainment markets. Across these sectors, its production approach combines strategic development with a mix of filmed, animated, and interactive material, allowing projects to move from an initial communication idea through production and finishing within a coordinated creative process.
More about Gasket Studios
Leadership and background
- Founder Gregory "Greg" Shultz serves as Director and Chief Creative Officer. Dan Helgemoe is Senior Producer.
- Shultz studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and previously worked at Hi-Wire and co-founded Make. Contemporary launch reporting described Gasket as artist-operated, bringing together artisans with backgrounds ranging from cel animation and painting to video game design.
Immersive development
The studio dates its immersive work to 2009, giving its AR and VR practice a history extending well before these capabilities became part of its broader creative offering.
Collaborative production model
Gasket describes a trusted network of specialist collaborators. Ditch Editorial contributes editorial expertise, Grey Ghost Sound provides audio post-production, and Nice Shoes supplies color finishing within a shared creative environment. Black Label Music and Redbear Films are also identified as longstanding music and production partners.
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Where Gasket Studios is based
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Minneapolis offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 400 First Avenue North, Suite 535, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Email: hello@gasket.tv Phone: +1 612-252-3930 Office webpage: https://gasket.tv/contact-gasket/ Current overall headquarters and creative studio. Engines Running operates internally through this headquarters. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 733 Marquette Ave, Suite 1350, Minneapolis, MN 55402 Former headquarters premises before the move to First Avenue North. The relocation year is not established.
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