Floaties
Lukas Niklaus, Garrick Rawlingson, Stephanie Parker and Laurent Herveic are our four Founders and Directors of Floating Rock, but you can call them the Floaties! With each of them having over 10 years of experience in the film industry, they wanted to take the good things they learned and improve on everything else they could to build a vibrant, unique creative studio, backed by a ridiculously talented team. The Floaties established Floating Rock in April 2020 and have since nurtured it up to the thriving entity it is today. They eagarly anticipate the bright future that lies ahead!
Rockies
The Rockies are our team of talented artists, production, and everyone in between. Majority are based in Wellington but we have plenty across the globe as well! Our Rockies do some of the hard mahi (work), and are encouraged to take steps to grow in their careers but to also take time to live a quality life- the balance that keeps this company happy and buzzing.
Meet Our Team
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Benjamin Mulot
Senior Animator
Benji, Creator of Kyoryu, 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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Stephanie Parker
Co-Founder // Chief Experience Officer
Stephanie drives Floating Rock's marketing and its unique IP incubator, Pitchfest, which fosters new ideas in film and games. An Animator by heart, she has worked on major films like 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' and 'Angry Birds', bringing creativity and precision into her work. By building innovative and engaging spaces for people to connect and create, she continues to make a positive impact in the industry.