Lagoon Black Studios
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- 2015
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About Lagoon Black Studios
Lagoon Black Studios is a boutique CGI animation and visual effects studio based in Bakersfield, California. Established in 2015 as a Vasquez family creative partnership, it produces character animation, commercial content and architectural visualization. Its work combines artistic development with technical asset production, supporting projects from initial concepts and scripts through finished animation.
The studio’s capabilities span character design, modeling, surfacing, rigging, grooming, lighting and rendering. Alongside animated advertising, it develops visual identities, architectural imagery and interactive storytelling projects. Its entertainment work emphasizes character performance and the creation of appealing digital characters for promotional and commercial productions.
Character-led production
For the 2020 environmental campaign iOtter Clean Up!, Lagoon Black served as the lead animation hub, creating and animating Oliver the Otter. The project brought its character modeling, grooming and animation capabilities together around an environmental public advocacy campaign.
Its commercial portfolio includes The Knockout, a 2018 Clark Pest Control advertisement that presented the company’s mascot as a stylized superhero. Other advertising work includes seasonal and theatrical commercials for Bland Solar & Air during 2016–2017. These projects illustrate the studio’s focus on using animated characters and visual storytelling to communicate a brand’s message.
Beyond advertising
Lagoon Black’s work also extends into digital publishing and the built environment. It developed Knolly Nibbles: A Tale of Tails, an animated storybook application, in partnership with Knolly Nibbles, LLC. Architectural projects include pre-construction imagery for Lake View Custom Homes and institutional visualization for a Veterans Affairs hospital project.
This range connects character-based entertainment with practical visualization and design assignments. The studio serves advertising, entertainment, architectural development and public advocacy markets, adapting its 3D production capabilities to animated campaigns, interactive stories and images that communicate proposed spaces.
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Leadership and advisers
- Larry Vasquez is identified as Co-Founder and Creative Director; Darrell Vasquez as Co-Founder and Director / Animation Director; and G.L. (Gilbert Larry) Vasquez as Co-Founder and Chief Producer.
- Nathan Vasquez serves as Technical Director and Software Engineer.
- The report lists iAnimate founder Jason Ryan on the board of advisers and Odei Addo-Yobo as Technical Advisor.
Production tools and operating model
The reported pipeline integrates Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, Foundry Modo, V-Ray and Ornatrix hair grooming. Production combines on-site work with a curated international collective of remote artists across North America and Europe, including specialist riggers, modelers and composers.
Training connections
Larry Vasquez has served as Media and Communication Manager at iAnimate, while Darrell Vasquez teaches feature animation there. These are professional connections to the online training school, rather than evidence that it is a studio subsidiary.
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Where Lagoon Black Studios is based
- Bakersfield, California, United States
Bakersfield offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 4701 Corporate Ct, Bakersfield, CA 93311, United States Phone: (661) 310-0315 Current headquarters in Seven Oaks Business Park, sharing a purpose-built facility with Northern Digital, Inc. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 5555 Business Park South, Suite 100, Bakersfield, CA 93309, United States Initial studio premises used during 2015–2016 before relocation to Seven Oaks Business Park.
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