Swihart Studios
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Swihart Studios
Swihart Studios was a boutique digital production studio founded and directed by Andrew Swihart in California. Its work combined real-time interactive development, game engine visualization and visual effects, bringing digital art and production direction to experiential entertainment, film and interactive media.
The studio developed interactive 3D touchwall experiences, virtual environments and cinematic visualization. Its capabilities included art direction, concept development, environment and asset modeling, motion graphics, interactive application interface design and pre-visualization. Production work also involved coordinating external studios and managing art outsourcing pipelines.
Interactive environments at sea
A flagship engagement was the development of real-time 3D guest experiences for the Carnival Corporation / Princess Cruises Ocean Medallion platform. Swihart Studios created 80 interactive ports and underwater environments representing destinations across the Caribbean, Alaska, Europe and the United States. These environments were designed for deployment across thousands of shipboard interactive touchscreens, connecting the studio's environment-building capabilities with a large experiential hospitality installation.
The project illustrates the studio's combination of visual development, interactive application design and production coordination. Its broader practice also encompassed virtual reality environments, game art direction and cinematic production, spanning both interactive experiences and screen-based entertainment.
More about Swihart Studios
Production model
For the Ocean Medallion engagement, Andrew Swihart built an internal team of 34 artists and technologists and coordinated multiple external vendor studios. The combined partner network exceeded 100 contributors. The work was showcased during a CES keynote presentation.
Recognition
In April 2018, Swihart Studios received the Excellence in Creativity award at the Santa Clarita Valley Business Journal Technology Awards, held at the California Institute of the Arts. The studio also received formal recognition from the City of Santa Clarita for creative technical achievement.
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Current and former locations of Swihart Studios
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles office
- Santa Clarita, California, United States
Santa Clarita office
Former headquartersAbout this office
Historical primary headquarters and production facility in Valencia, a community within Santa Clarita in Los Angeles County. The saved Los Angeles location represents this same historical studio.
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