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Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

VFX & Post-Production
Open roles
0
Founded
2017
Employees
1-10
Offices
1

About Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades is an independent boutique motion design, animation, and post-production studio based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2017, it works across commercial advertising, documentary graphics, television, music videos, and digital branded content. Its practice brings together editorial, color, motion graphics, and design, with capabilities extending to live-action visual effects and compositing.

The studio supports projects from post-production planning and creative direction through editing, animated graphics, and finishing. Its animation work encompasses 2D and 3D motion graphics, traditional techniques, and mixed-media approaches. Typography, title design, broadcast packages, and animated inserts form part of its work for film, episodic television, and documentary productions.

Commercial and entertainment work

The studio serves advertising, sports media, entertainment, and branded-content clients. Its portfolio includes campaign post-production, documentary title sequences, promotional graphics, event teasers, music videos, and graphics for educational platforms. These assignments draw on combinations of editing, animation, design, and compositing according to the production's requirements.

Its reported client roster includes Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Red Bull, ESPN, Comedy Central, Showtime, HBO Max, Hulu, Google, Logitech, MasterClass, Dapper Labs, and Anheuser-Busch. Work ranges from sports and consumer-brand campaigns to entertainment promotions and online video. Alongside motion design and editorial, the studio offers color grading and finishing as part of its post-production practice.

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Founder and creative leadership

Jeremy Johnstone is the studio's founder and Creative Director. A writer and director, he is described in the research as a four-time Emmy nominee; that recognition applies to Johnstone individually. His background includes senior creative direction roles at 72andSunny and Doubleday & Cartwright.

Production approach

The studio describes an adaptable production model that assembles specialized teams of animators, editors, motion designers, and compositors for individual assignments. It tailors talent and processes to each project rather than using a single fixed pipeline, with the stated aim of meeting schedules and budgets.

The research describes its craft aesthetic as influenced by DIY, skate, and independent film cultures.

Notable credits

19 credits
  • ESPN 30 for 30: You Don't Know Bo
  • MasterClass: Metallica
  • Comedy Central: Key & Peele
  • Nike: Air Reinvented
  • Nike: #MakeItCount
  • Nike: USA Olympic Basketball
  • Nike: Ordem Ball
  • Red Bull Culture Clash
  • Red Bull Music Festival LA
  • Red Bull Sound Select Chicago
  • Red Bull: Brooklyn's Got Wings
  • Natural Light: daVinci of Debt
  • A Naturdays Story
  • Dapper Labs + LaLiga commercial featuring Cristiano Ronaldo
  • Hulu: Generation Stream
  • Grantland: Storytime with Jalen Rose
  • Google: Year In Search
  • Google: OK Google
  • Google + Star Wars

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