Psyop (company)
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| Company type | Private corporation |
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| Founded | 2000 in New York City, United States |
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| Headquarters | , United States |
| Website | psyop |
Psyop is a production studio with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Berlin and Stuttgart.
History
[edit]Psyop was founded in 2000 by Marco Spier, Marie Hyon, Todd Mueller, Kylie Matulick and Eben Mears in New York City.[1] In 2013, Psyop opened Psyop Games, a video game publishing division run by Muse Games co-founder Brian Kehrer.[2] In 2022, Psyop launched in Germany with offices in Hamburg and Stuttgart.
Original Productions
[edit]In 2015, Psyop released an animated series, "Grandma's Cats Are Trying To Kill Her," in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.[3]
In 2016, Psyop launched a VR experience, "Kismet," a virtual fortune-telling machine for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PlayStation VR headsets.[4]
In 2019, Psyop released a dating simulator, I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator, in collaboration with KFC.[5]
In 2020, Psyop, working with Supercell company, produced a short film Lost & Crowned, was uploaded on September 12, 2020, and qualified for Oscars recognition in December.[6] They also collaborated on Absolut's It's In Our Spirit campaign, which was recognized for its motion design.[7][8]
In 2022, during a Dead by Daylight developer livestream on May 17, it was announced that the game's developer, Behaviour Interactive, would be collaborating with Psyop to produce a dating sim spinoff titled Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Price, Erik. "Psyop Makes Ads You Actually Want to Watch". Esquire Magazine. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ^ Fera, Rae Ann (December 13, 2013). "Fighting Malaria With A Video And Game That Show The Nightmare Of The Disease". Fast Company. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ Wolfe, Jennifer. "Psyop's 'Grandma's Cats' Launches on DreamWorksTV". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on January 5, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ Jagneaux, David (May 2, 2016). "Visit 'Kismet' in VR for Daily Fortune Telling, Tarot Cards, and Horoscopes". UploadVR. Archived from the original on May 16, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ Carpenter, Nicole (September 10, 2019). "KFC". Polygon. Archived from the original on September 27, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ "Animated short 'Lost & Crowned' scores Oscar qualification". AnimationXpress. December 7, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^ Spary, Sara (November 23, 2020). "In a Stellar Use of Animation, Absolut Imagines the Joy of Reuniting Post-Pandemic". Ad Week. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^ Lee, Giacomo. "The best motion design adverts of 2020". Creative Boom. No. 11 December 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^ "Dead by Daylight | 6th Anniversary Broadcast". YouTube.
