This generation’s easy internet access has, no doubt, revolutionized society. We can connect with people a world away with just a touch of our fingertips. There is an additional advantage to having access to the World Wide Web— information. We are no longer limited to the Encyclopedia Britannica or local library when a question [...]
Jonathan Strietzel: Forbes Magazine has a circulation of over 900,000 and its website, Forbes.com reaches approximately 18 million people a month. Both the magazine and the website are for the world’s top business leaders and in the October 5th, 2009 edition of Forbes, Big Stage Entertainment was named as #18 in America’s Most Promising Companies. “Our company is very [...]
This year’s Fertile Action Gala was a huge success, with a spectacular venue in the SLS Hotel, amazing attendees and delightful entertainment. A definite night to remember. A video I co-produced, created, editied and directed by Elijah Shepard for the foundation kicked off the evening followed by Dr. Susan Love. Dr. Love urged guests to [...]
Luis Vilallobos, My friend and founder of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA), one of the largest angel investment groups in the nation, died at the age of 70 on Thursday at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange County. Luis Villalobos received a degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1963 graduated from [...]
Strietzel and Ford’s Kay Team Up Jonathan Strietzel – Wanted to give a shout out to Olga who came by to shoot a fun Ford Fiesta skit with me. Olga, I had a blast. Thanks for the good times
Startup News – Los Angeles – Big Stage Entertainment, is the worlds leading developer of 3D facial creation technology, otherwise known as an Avatar, announced on Tuesday that it had secured an additional $2.7 million in second round funding, from Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and TechCoast Angels. Big Stage Entertainment is a So. Cal Startup, founded [...]
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Startup Mayhem – Strietzel’s Big Stage Technology “UM YEAH. THIS IS LIKE EVERYTHING THAT I’VE BEEN EXCITED ABOUT FOR A WHILE.” April 05, 2009 These are true words from an email I received earlier this week as authored by a well-respected digital marketing executive. What can I say… it resonated with me, not simply because [...]
Startup Analysis: Big Stage Entertainment, words from Marcus Alexander Hart/Geek Monthly/February 2009 Startup Big Stage Entertainment – Marcus Alexander Hart writes about how he remembers the movie S1mOne? Marucs covered how Al Pacino had a digital actress with him that he could constantly and freely drop into any movie of his choice at any time. Marcus [...]
Strietzel – December 15, 2008 | Jon Snoddy Startup Life – People who frequent Big Stage Joint tend to dream big. Kind of an unspoken requirement I guess. We started this thing with the vision of digitizing humanity… all of it… everybody. We wanted to create a technology so transformative that it would launch an [...]
Dean Takahashi | December 11th, 2008 If your interested in building a 3-D avatar, or virtual character, you might as well spread take it everywhere with you. That’s the point of Big Stage Entertainment’s PortableYou program. Big Stage uses a highly advanced, facial modeling system to render an amazing digital replica of you in seconds [...]
Virtual Worlds News/December 11, 2008 Yesterday Big Stage announced the launch of Portable You, its program to integrate its 3D facial models with third parties or games, virtual worlds, and more as well as an initial partnership with Icarus Studios and The Venue Network. Today it announced two more partnerships, with Splash News, a celebrity [...]
Strietzel - Posted by Kevin Jenkins in Tech News on 12 11th, 2008 BigStage.com Users Will Be Able to Insert Their 3-D @ctors Into Free Video Game Content, Then Share with Friends and GGL Community Members LOS ANGELES, Dec 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company founded by Jonathan Strietzel, [...]
Startup’s software allows users to insert 3-D versions of their faces in videos, photos, online content. By CHARLES PROCTOR Los Angeles Business Journal Staff Posted date: 11/10/2008 How many people want to see themselves in a clip from “Phantom of the Opera” or “The A-Team”? Enough to build a business? Pasadena Startup Big Stage Entertainment [...]
By Dog and Pony Editor – November 6th, 2008 @ 3:21 pm Jonathan Strietzel is the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of BigStage.com a new digital media company that is bringing digital versions of real people to life. For those of you who’ve dreamed of staring in a blockbuster movie or TV show alongside their [...]
Distorted-Loop.com Posted by Jonny on November 5th, 2008 Can’t get enough of karaoke? Like to take space in the spotlight? Possessed by a pathological need to put yourself across? Big Stage Entertainment’s new service could be a bit of fun for you, as it lets you pop self-made animated 3D performances into your Facebook or [...]
by Andrew Krainin In Digital Podcast 52, Andrew interviews Jonathan Strietzel, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Big Stage, whose breakthrough technology allows users to create and integrate life-like 3-D avatars of themselves into movies, videogames, commercials and other digital video content using just three digital face photos. Imagine if you and your friends could star in [...]
April 16th, 2008 by Andy Merchant Liberate Media is always on the look out for different/innovative uses of social media, and this one caught my attention the other day. Sony BMG has teamed up with Big Stage - a media company whose technology allows users [...]
