Stimulated, Inc.
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2005
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Stimulated, Inc.
Stimulated, Inc. is an experiential media, immersive entertainment design and hybrid creative production studio founded in 2005. Based in Southern California, it develops visual experiences for live concerts, theatrical productions, broadcast entertainment, cruise ships and branded environments. Its approach treats digital displays as active performance elements, coordinating motion graphics, animation and projected imagery with choreography, lighting and music.
The studio combines creative direction with technical design and production. Its capabilities include large-format motion graphics, stereoscopic 3D content, CGI animation, augmented reality visuals, animatics and real-time visual effects using Unreal Engine. Projects range from multi-screen stage environments and touring concert visuals to immersive attractions and entertainment systems for maritime hospitality. Its creative strategy work also helps brands adapt existing intellectual property and media assets into new interactive and experiential formats.
Live entertainment and original productions
The company produced stereoscopic visual backdrops for Michael Jackson’s planned This Is It concert series, including material for Earth Song. Its Disney work includes live directing for Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds 3D and visual content for High School Musical: The Concert. It has also created concert visuals for Foo Fighters.
A longstanding collaboration with Carnival Cruise Line has involved visual content for more than thirty shipboard productions. Beyond commissioned entertainment, the studio develops original productions for orchestral presentation. Humanity — The Live Philharmonic Experience pairs orchestral repertoire with photography by Steve McCurry, extending its work into symphonic performance and original intellectual property licensing.
Hybrid creative production
Alongside its entertainment work, Stimulated, Inc. offers hybrid production and creative operations services to corporate brands, show producers and in-house creative agencies. Its proprietary Stimulated.Works platform supports the coordination of distributed creative production. This operating model connects an internal production management team with a curated international artist network, allowing specialist talent to be assembled around the needs of individual projects.
More about Stimulated, Inc.
Founders and early development
Robb Wagner and Pam Wagner co-founded the company. Before its launch, Robb worked as a live television Associate Director with the Directors Guild of America. His coordination of fifty video screens for the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards helped shape the studio's subsequent approach to integrating media with live stage architecture.
Production methods and technology
The company developed The Stimulated Method as its production methodology. Its Stimulated.Works system automates talent sourcing, remote job briefs, 6K file management and milestone reviews. The company describes a curated network of more than 250 vetted hybrid creators supporting its distributed production model.
Recognition and creative activism
Carnival's Epic Rock received a Live Design Award; the recognition belongs to the show, for which Stimulated supplied visual media.
The studio's CauseXT division undertook creative activism work through the Elect Good People / Conscious Market activation in 2022.
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Where Stimulated, Inc. is based
- 1730 Holly Avenue, #770, El Segundo, CA 90245El Segundo, California, United States
El Segundo office
HeadquartersCorporate headquarters supporting business administration and executive management; also the registered corporate address.
- 4100 West Alameda Avenue, 3rd Floor, Burbank, CA 91505Burbank, California, United States
Burbank office
About this office
Physical production studio, digital animation review center and creative development hub. The privacy policy also describes this facility as a headquarters; the report identifies El Segundo as the overall corporate headquarters.
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