Fonco was founded in 2000 by Fon Davis, as a design and fabrication studio specializing in miniatures. Over the decade we have been in business, Fonco has been joined by a very creative and motivated group of artists, many of whom have worked for companies like Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, and Disney. In addition to picking up incredible talent, we have grown into a 1700 square foot facility, which includes a complete art department, fabrication shop, and photography studio. We now handle full production services from early design and story development through post production, always with a focus on visual story telling. We invite you to bring your project to Fonco, where we believe creativity and hard work equal a great experience. |
The friendly artists at Fonco are all known for wearing many hats, so you don't just get their experience and talent; you get a TEAM- a team that is capable of tackling the most creatively challenging projects. |
Fon Davis
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Fon Davis has over two decades of experience in design, fabrication and more recently writing and directing. Fon is the creator and a co-writer on MORAV and Lee's Chinese Robot Shop. Fon's first feature film work was for Disney on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Since then, he has worked on over 30 feature films including blockbusters like Starship Troopers, Pearl Harbor, and the Star Wars and Matrix series. Fon specializes in overseeing complex or large creative projects in motion pictures, television and product development. Fon has a reputation for being a kind-hearted team builder, hardworking planner and excellent troubleshooter. View Fon Davis' Feature Portfolio Due to copyrights, this section is password protected. Please e-mail to request a password
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Robert Barnes
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Robert Barnes is a character designer, illustrator and incredibly talented sculptor who got his start working on the Star Wars series in Doug Chiang's art department at Lucasfilm, Ice Blink and later at Disney's ImageMovers Digital. Robert is fun to work with and endlessly creative, with a great eye for design and detail. He will stay up all night to get the job done.
View Robert Barnes on imdb.com
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Justin Kohn
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Justin Kohn is a veteran stop motion animator with over two decades of experience animating and making armatures for animation. Justin has worked on several iconic stop motion projects including Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas, Robocop 2 and Coraline. Justin is an easy-going, hard working animator with an amazing ability to breath life into inanimate objects. |
Ray Gilberti
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Ray Gilberti has been a Director of Photography since 1988. Ray’s career as a cameraman began in 1980 at LucasFilm and includes miniatures photography on some of the most notable films of the last three decades: Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future, The Lost World, Poltergeist, Cocoon, Space Cowboys, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and many more. Ray is a great director of photography and an expert Camera Operator in miniatures and live-action. Ray is mild mannered like Clark Kent and a Superman with the cameras; oh yeah.
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Wendy Rolon
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Wendy Rolon is a writer and editor, writing across genres and modes. She works both as a writer-for-hire and also on her own independent projects. Wendy is one of the writers on the Morav Missions series. Currently, she's also in process on bringing one of her screenplays, a monster movie, to the big screen. In addition to this, Wendy writes and directs commercial videos for the web. ... and she writes lots of haikus. See some of her work at HAIKU BEEYATCH
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John Duncan
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John Duncan has over two decades of experience doing design and fabrication for motion pictures, television and product development. John has worked on over 30 feature films including hits like Wall-E, Star Trek, The Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars. John has a natural instinct for great design and beautiful shapes. He's likely one of the best pattern and mold makers in the business. John is even keeled and analytical in a way that makes difficult tasks feel easy and effortless. |
Pierre Maurer
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Pierre Maurer has over a decade of experience doing design and fabrication in motion pictures, television and product development. Pierre has done work on over 20 very well known movies, like War of the Worlds, and Star Wars, Terminator and the Matrix series. Pierre has a really tight grasp on what it takes to get a job done while balancing between the budget, schedule and practical needs. Pierre brings an incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm to projects. |
Martin MacDonald
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Since being inspired by his Grandfather and Uncle's ship models as a child growing up in Nova Scotia, Canada, miniatures have been a consistent thread in Martin's life. With a sharp eye for detail and scale, Martin brings 12 years of professional model making experience to Fonco. Martin has models on display as part of collections in almost 40 countries, as well as experience working for museums and companies such as 21st Century Toys. Martin is happy to be continuing the family tradition of model making here at Fonco. Martin does a fantastic job with a lot of dedication to making the process positive for all involved.
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The FonCo was responsible for production design and fabrication of environments for Mekanism's Brisk® stop motion add campaign.
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Click on above image to view Fon Davis in a commercial at the Fonco Studio in 2005 |
MORAV is a giant robot science fiction series currently under development by Fonco |
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Fonco fabricated a remarkably detailed model of a development in Dubai, complete with working lights.
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Mouser Mecha-Catbot was a fighting robot designed and operated in robot fighting competitions. |
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