About - Floating Rock

Aiko Sato

Talent and Project Manager

Aiko is an established project manager with extensive experience working in WētāFX, Ministry, universities, and other multicultural organisations. She is a musician and enjoys working with creatives. Aiko has a strategic mind with a critical eye, providing analytical and innovative advice to the team.

Benjamin Mulot

Senior Animator

Benji is an artist who animates with an incredible eye for timing and weight. He has animated countless creatures and characters, including “Kong vs Godzilla, “Eternals”, “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Game of Thrones”.

Garrick Rawlingson

Co-Founder // Chief Business Officer

Garrick is a versatile professional with expertise in client outreach and creative project leadership. He has extensive experience in character and creature animation and devleoped his creative eye having worked for top VFX studios around the world on films like Alita: battle Angel, Peter Rabbit 2, and The Hobbit 3. His natural social skills aligned him well for connecting with people and businesses.

Gregoire Dehame

Rigger

Gregoire is versatile across both character and creature rigging. He has created his own proprietary rigging system, along with tools to allow for increasingly efficient animation and overall production. During his time at Luma Pictures, Gregoire worked on projects such as The Tomorrow War

Jarrod Crossland

Production Manager

Jarrod is a local Rockie working in our production team, he has been in VFX for 8 years and leading production teams on everything from Game of Thrones to Avatar 2. Outside of work, he is a hiker, bike rider, excel guru, and proud dad. Jarrod is super excited to be part of the growing Floating Rock family!

Laurent Herveic

Co-Founder // Chief Creative Officer

Laurent, has an asset creation background, specializing in facial modelling and FACS. His work on Pogo from The Umbrella Academy earned the prestigous VES award nomination. His additonal work includes memorable characters for movies like Alita: Battle Angel and Planet of the Apes. Laurent's artistic eye leads the way when it comes to creative needs for high quality and structure for outstanding production.

Lukas Niklaus

Co-Founder // Chief Executive Officer

Lukas, a spreadsheet pro and our chief strategist, has a background as an Animator at major VFX studios like Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital. He's extremely passionate about character animation and elicting genuine preformances. Lukas passionately manages the in's and out's of the studio to ensure excellence as a successful studio.

Nathan Santell

Executive Producer

Nathan is based in Montreal although soon to be making the big move to NZ. He is an Emmy-nominated Producer, Consultant, Project Manager, Writer and Development Executive with deep experience in animation, visual effects, story development, artist management & live-action production. Nathan’s strengths include company building, business development, brand strategy, team management, leadership and communications. As Executive Producer for Floating Rock, he is focused on drumming up business on the service side of the company, making sure those projects run smoothly and he’s also instrumental in the development and sales of Floating Rock’s IP’s. He's worked on feature films (Mad Max: Fury Road, Gravity, Iron Man 2&3, Sonic the Hedgehog, Oz the Great & Powerful, Total Recall, Men in Black 3, Avengers, Hunger Games, and so much more.

Stephanie Parker

Co-Founder // Chief Marketing Officer & PItchfest Lead

Stephanie is an Animator by heart, while focussing on Marketing and Pitchfest. In the past she has worked on major films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Angry Birds. Her favourite thing about animation is creating empathetic character moments that resonate with audiences. This translates now to building an innovative space and experiences for peers to have their memorable moments.