Meet New York's New ANImagician

Because the studio is producing self-financed projects, there's very little red tape for the creative team to hurdle. “Joe and Tom challenge everyone to do the job we were all brought on to do. When we bring ideas to them, if they like it, we move right ahead. If not, we literally just go back to the drawing board.”

The studio also sports 98,000 square feet of facility space over four buildings, as well as the highest-end tools for all the employees. In the back are sound-stages for stop motion and motion capture, not to mention recording facilities. “If it's got a button on it, we make sure everyone who could use one has one,” adds Nodelman. Perhaps that's why ANImagic has been able to bring in artists from Canada, Ireland and LA, as well as seasoned animation heavyweights like storyboard artists Diane Kredensor and Jeff Buckland.

Clearly, Nodelman has high aspirations for ANImagic and their his projects. “But my greatest production is my two boys, Dylan and Spencer. And I want to sit in a movie theater with my wife Melanie and my two boys, eating popcorn, and watching a film that Daddy created that was once their bedtime story. That, I think, would be the ultimate dream come true.”