Swardson Studios

Production and Training

Studio Info

Swardson Studios is a design, animation and visual effects company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As visual communicators, we believe that our goal is to enhance your message, not overshadow it. We have been designing and animating for electronic delivery and print for 7 years.

Our satisfied customers are some of the biggest in their industries including The Boeing Company and The University of New Mexico. Our design strategy starts with your vision and ends with state of the art visual communication and user-friendly interactivity. Whether it is web, motion, design or effects, Swardson Studios is the only group you need to fulfill your visual marketing goals.

Visual Effects

We specialize in creating a wide array of visual effects for film, television, the web and photography. Our team provides on-set visual effects supervision for post production and motion capture as well as motion tracking, match moving, green screen keying, roto-scoping, color correction, set extensions, compositing, and full 3D integration.

Do you have footage you need visual effects for? Do you have a shoot coming up that you expect will need visual effects? No matter what stage you are at in your production, Swardson Studios will help invisibly bring your vision to the screen.

Animation & Motion Graphics

Swardson Studios artists have over 12 years of combined experience in 3D animation and motion graphics production. We have created cinematic animated short films, 3D product visualizations, title sequences, scientific drawings.

We specialize in 3D modeling, character animation, digital environment creation, camera projection and realistic or stylized rendering. Do you have a character you need brought to life? Do you have avirtual set you need generated for your keyed green screen presentation? No matter what stage you are at in your production, Swardson Studios will help bring your vision to the screen.

Web Design & Development

For some, a website is a means to share and gather information. For others it is a means to stay connected with friends and family. Swardson Studios believes that no matter how you view the internet and the many different kinds of sites available today, we can help you with your web design needs.

We have extensive experience creating both static and dynamic websites utilizing modern web languages and technologies such as XHTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP and MySQL. We also have experience with plugin, theme development and site creation using popular content management systems, such as wordpress and drupal. No matter what your design needs are. Swardson Studios can help you bring your vision to the web.

Blog

The visual effects, animation and web design community is ever changing. New methods, examples and tools are shared each and every day. The only way to capitalize on all of this information is to have a place to find it.

The Swardson Studios blog aims to be a place for you to come and see what is going on in the industry. We will be sharing fun and random things as well as articles and tutorials found across the internet.

Check it out often or feel free to subsribe to our rss feed for constant updates.

Free Written and Video Tutorials

At Swardson Studios we feel that production and education are not separate entities. In a creative industry, education not only gives one access to the wisdom of seasoned professionals and technical instruction, but incubates an environment for experimentation and growth that is unmatched.

As such we not only offer production services but educational resources as well, both free and contracted.

For more specific education requests, please contact us.