Gavin Farrell: Director of Innovation in Portland

Luxicraft LLC is a cutting edge production house that offers assembled and ready-to-use stabilized 12.5K stabilized 360º spherical ProRes footage with 14 stops of dynamic range. Filmmakers and producers now have access to thousands of high-quality real-world 360 backplates for LED volumes.

A joint venture between Panogs LLC (Gavin's company) and ATI (Aerial Technology International) with the goal to fiill a production gap in the Virtual Reality production space. The VR Drone was designed to give VR filmmakers the best quality aerial spherical footage possible while reducing the post processing times associated with traditional VR drone solutions. www.vrdrone.io

PANOGS is a full-service interactive agency with a strong focus on immersive production (VR/AR/MR) Panogs was recently awarded the 2018 EMMY for Outstanding Digital Innovation for the Virtual Reality Film Capturing Everest. PANOGS is also a Space Needle LLC preferred vendor and has created many of the interactive experiences that delight visitors on the landmark's observation deck. Other clients include Sport Illustrated, Time Inc., Microsoft, and Surround Vision.

Responsibilities captured: video production of the product launch of a patented Blockchain technology through national TV spots and social media video campaigns. All aspects of the video production including high-quality video capture, 3-point lighting interviews, high-quality sound capture, motion graphics creation, editing, and final delivery.Produced "quick turn" news-style content on deadlines that ranged from just a few hours to multi day or multi week segments. Collaborated with producers, writers, and social media experts, and partners to ensure that their needs were met and/or exceeded. Conducted legal drone videography with FAA Part 107 certification

Creating high quality photography packages for real estate agents and architects. Services included drone imaging, videography, wide angle photography, and 3D Scanning using a Ricoh Theta Z1 and Matterport software. Cinematic VR Videography - Project Origami's The Magic of Flight, A WebXR

The IVRPA is an international association of photographers who create and produce 360° Panoramas and other Virtual Reality Content including 360° Video, 360° Virtual Tours, Gigapixel Panoramas, and more.

180º and 360º stereoscopic video production and post-production for "Project Origami an immersive webXR experience deploying next-gen human web interaction. https://liquidcinemavr.com/fly/ Nominated for three WebXR awards at the 2022 Polys.

360º Stitching and post-production of "Into the Himalayas", a three-part episode stereoscopic 360º VR conservation series. Episode "Mountains" was a finalist in the prestigious 2020 Jackson Wild media awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hoNpMixo4

Managed the video production team and produced a series of interviews and conversations with Sophia the Robot, the world's first robot citizen, as she traveled around the globe.

Photographed ultra high resolution Gigapixel panoramas of the giant ancient murals tucked about in rocky Buddhist temples sprinkled across the most remote regions of Tibet. In March of 2018 the first copy of the new TASCHEN book Murals of Tibet was presented to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India. https://youtu.be/SHLJDmgHqmY

Led the interactive advertising Innovation team and spearheaded the very first virtual reality ads for Yahoo! Designed advertorial sponsored Tumblr pages and spearhead the Tumblr-sponsored posts. A lot of graphic motion design and 2D animation using Adobe Animator (Flash).

Delivered rich- media ad campaigns, micro-sites, animated video reels, print collateral, and sales decks. Implemented projects including the Yahoo! Login page, the Image Ad and Mobile Ad units with our partnership with "Celtra" an advanced cloud based 3rd party mobile UX platform.

Mar 2014 (1 month) Before the One World Trade Center was opened to the public Time Inc. brought a small crew to shoot a hyper-resolution 360º image of the view 10' out from the very top of the spire. Gavin stitched and combined the massive data from four hemispherical image-arrays. Time Inc. used the final image as the magazine's first ever tri-fold cover. The Interactive online experience was used as the centerpiece of Time's rebranded website launch. Mark Zuckerberg also choose this image to announce the launch of 360 photos on Facebook.

Designed rich-media ad campaigns for every major US brand (tier 1 & 2). Repurposed brand assets and created complex interactive animated ad units becoming video ads, animated wallpapers, expandable ad units, floaters, micro-sites, sweepstakes and Yahoo! Mail ads. Built out and deployed mixed media ads units using an internal Yahoo! Ad Platform called Adinterax. Interactive Media Designer

R&D of emerging design technologies, technical design of www.thewb.com and other Warner Bros. websites and all television network pilot micro-sites and internal Warner Brothers Intranet sites.

Implemented a major rebrand and structural website. Produced digital marketing campaigns and managed video and photography staff; asset database management of student work.

Oversaw animation production teams and produced several animated "Flashisodes" and interactive games. stickyflicks.com had over 1 million plus visitors per day and was voted "Best Animated Site of the Day" by Yahoo in 2001. https://gavinfarrell.com/#/animation/ Animation was accomplished in Adobe Animator (Flash).