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We are a full service animation, video production and design company.
Head of Animation / Co-Founder
Evan Sussman founded Hero 4 Hire Creative in 2010. He is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the twice Emmy nominated PBS Kids Go! web series, Fizzy's Lunchlab. LunchLab.com has had over 2.3 million unique visitors and 14 million page views.
Evan is the winner of several prestigious awards. The short he animated and composited won the Grand Prize for Current TV's 60 Second to Save the Earth Contest. Al Gore featured this winning PSA at the TED global warming presentation. His original short Escape was a finalist in the Doorpost Film Project and was awarded a cash prize.
Evan has directed commercials for Legal Sea Foods and Seventh Generation and original segments for PBS's Emmy Award Winning series Between The Lions. He developed his superpowers working on series ranging from Word Girl for PBS to Assy McGee for Adult Swim. Disguised as an Animator, Designer and Director, Evan is stronger than an after effects render engine.
Head of Production / Co-Founder
Joan Meister began her career in the world of commercials where her clients included Nike, Delta and Amtrak. Then she dabbled in visual effects before working in many aspects of film.
Joan was one of only twelve directors invited to be a part of the Boston collaboration TWELVE for Old Harbor Productions and produced the short film Smoke which was a finalist in the Doorpost Film Project. She developed series for Animal Planet, courtTV and Discovery Channel before founding Hero 4 Hire Creative.
Joan crusades for organization and creativity on all productions as a member of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers and the Mass Production Coalition while serving on the board of Women in Film and Video. Her death defying hobbies include surfing waves along the east coast.
Executive Producer
Allison Dressler Kramer has been working in network television for over ten years.
She began her career at Cartoon Network in Atlanta moving up the ranks to Senior Producer. After five years, she trekked to Manhattan where she worked as an Executive Producer at Nickelodeon. Then as courtTV's Director of Sales Promotions she executive produced the show Saturday Night Solution and helped to rebrand the network to truTV. The new "actuality" network promoted her to Senior Director of Creative Services and she created and executed integrated marketing campaigns and launched new shows.
In her mild-mannered former life, she performed as a character at The Magic Kingdom and earned a Ducktorate Degree from Disney University.
Technical Director
Adrian Garcia grew up in Monterrey, Mexico where he performed as a magician and became interested in special effects and music. He plays bass, piano and guitar and is passionate about film scoring and arranging. In high school he took up computer programming and developed the rhyming software Lyricmaker.
Adrian brought his talents to Massachusetts College of Art and Design where Evan Sussman took note and recruited him as Hero 4 Hire Creative's first animator. Adrian's specialty is bridging the gap between music and animation and his superpowers are known throughout the universe.
His animated shorts tour the international festival circuit and have appeared in countries such as Canada and Brazil. He is the winner of heroic awards including the 2010 Animazing Spotlight for Best Animation Technique and the 2011 Golden Pencil Award for 2D or not 2D.
Animation Director
Daniel Flynn credits Disney films for inspiring his career. He began as an Animator and Storyboard Artist at digital animation studio Soup2Nuts where he worked for four years on Word Girl and SciGirls, two Emmy Award winning series for PBS Kids Go!.
Now he has joined forces with Hero 4 Hire Creative and spends his time animating the Emmy nominated webseries, Fizzy's LunchLab. Dan was awarded the 2007 Digital Media Distinguished Alumni Award from UMass Dartmouth and fights for the animator race on his blog Dan-O-Vision.
Art Director
Lindsay Small-Butera was still but a student completing a double major in animation and illustration at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design when her pilot was optioned by Cartoon Network.
After working at CN she was scouted by Converse to head up their tween initiative. While there she created Star Power, a line of customizable products aimed at young women that focused on the Zodiac. After two years, she left to return to her true love - animation.
Lindsay's alter ego is the Co-Creator of MondoMedia's hit web show, Baman Piderman. The series boasts multimillions of hits and retains a large amount of internet popularity. Lindsay's art has been shown and sold in galleries across the country, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Society of Illustrators Annual gallery in NYC. Lindsay spends her spare time knitting, playing ukulele, and drawing robots.