Scholar
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2010
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Scholar
Scholar is an independent creative production company and multidisciplinary animation studio working across design, live-action direction, animation, visual effects and mixed-media storytelling. Founded in Los Angeles in 2010 by directors William Campbell and Will Johnson, the company originally operated as Gentleman Scholar. It expanded to New York in 2016 and adopted the name Scholar in March 2020, marking its tenth anniversary.
The studio produces commercial campaigns, brand films, title sequences, music videos and experiential content. Its work spans advertising, entertainment, technology, automotive, financial services, food and beverage, retail and civic institutions. Projects bring together different production disciplines, from illustrated characters and hand-drawn animation to live-action filmmaking and photorealistic computer-generated imagery.
From concept to finishing
Scholar's services cover campaign strategy, research, concept development, copywriting and narrative development, alongside design systems and character worldbuilding. Production capabilities include live-action direction, set design, cinematography and choreography. Animation and design work encompasses 2D, 3D and cel animation, illustration, motion graphics, character development and kinetic typography. Post-production services include editorial, compositing, visual effects, color correction and sound design.
The company describes its approach as style-agnostic. Its portfolio moves between stylized hand-drawn imagery, mixed-media collage, photorealistic automotive work and immersive formats. Experiential projects extend to full-dome planetarium projections and anamorphic 3D digital billboards, alongside AR and VR work.
Selected work
Scholar's portfolio includes Google Play's Ready to Play, Target's Holiday 2025, Taco Bell's Decades Y2K and Mercury's Banking Should Do More. Its work for the U.S. Space Force includes Always Above, a planetarium dome film combining experiential presentation and visual effects. Other projects include Georgia Aquarium's Where Wonder Lives, Knorr's Unlimited Time Menu and the opening and broadcast graphics for the 2023 VALORANT Game Changers Championship.
The Los Angeles and New York studios operate as one production company under the founders' ownership.
More about Scholar
Leadership
- Kirsten Noll serves as Managing Director and Executive Producer in Los Angeles.
- Kev Jones is Executive Producer in Los Angeles, and Krista Carpenter leads marketing and press.
- Kate Aspell is Executive Producer for the New York studio.
Operating model
Scholar maintains independent sales representation in the United States and internationally. These representatives are third-party agency partners rather than Scholar-operated branch offices or subsidiary studios.
Notable credits
25 creditsOffices
Where Scholar is based
- 2800 Clearwater St., Los Angeles, CA 90039, United StatesLos Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles Headquarters / West Coast Studio
HeadquartersOpened 2010
Overall company headquarters and West Coast studio, established in 2010.
- 180 Varick Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10014, United StatesNew York, United States
New York Branch / East Coast Studio
Opened 2016
Full-service East Coast branch established in 2016 as Gentleman Scholar NY and maintained through the Scholar rebrand.
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