The Outlook Company
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- Founded
- 2006
- Employees
- 51-200
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About The Outlook Company
The Outlook Company is an independent animation, visual effects and multimedia production company based in Baltimore, Maryland. Operating publicly through the OVFX studio brand, it develops entertainment properties for children and families and produces work across animated television, streaming, feature animation and interactive media.
Founded by former NFL player and author Trevor Pryce in 2006, the business began with music and youth literature before moving into episodic animation. Pryce’s 2013 children’s fantasy novel series, Kulipari: An Army of Frogs, became a central entertainment property and was adapted into an animated series for Netflix in 2016. The company established a dedicated animation facility in 2015 and broadened its operations in 2019.
Animation and interactive production
The studio’s capabilities span 2D and 3D animation, visual effects, pre-visualization, concept art, design, asset creation and rigging. Its production approach combines Unreal Engine workflows, real-time rendering and performance capture. Audio engineering and mixing complement its animation work, while interactive game development extends its properties beyond linear screen productions.
The company built its Baltimore production operation to retain creative ownership and control over its pipeline. Animation, performance capture, audio post-production and its Outlook Company Digital gaming division operate together within a central facility, supporting work across different formats.
Entertainment properties
The Kulipari franchise includes An Army of Frogs, produced with Splash Entertainment, and the subsequent Netflix release DreamWalker. In 2023, the company entered a long-term streaming agreement with Hulu covering remastered earlier seasons, Kulipari: A King Rises and development of a full-length 3D CGI reboot using motion capture and game-engine rendering.
Other projects include Benny Blueprints, a preschool property and pilot developed in collaboration with Nickelodeon, and the interactive game Kulipari: United. These projects reflect a business that combines original intellectual property development with animation production and interactive adaptations.
More about The Outlook Company
Production facilities
- The LED-screen performance capture stage is named The Volume, and the audio mixing department is known as The Post Office.
- The studio’s expansion received support from the Baltimore Development Corporation and the Maryland Department of Commerce through the Advantage Maryland program.
Talent development
- The company has prioritized training and employing diverse creative talent from institutions including the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
- In 2022, it partnered with Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation to launch Neru Projects, an incubator guiding underrepresented storytellers and artists through animated-series concept development.
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Where The Outlook Company is based
- The A. Hoen & Co. Lithograph Building, 2101 E. Biddle Street, Baltimore, MD 21213, United StatesBaltimore, Maryland, United States
East Baltimore Studio Campus
HeadquartersAbout this office
Principal headquarters and production facility, housing animation, performance capture and audio mixing operations across approximately 30,000 square feet.
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