Lewis Kofsky is partner and producer at Curious Pictures. He guides all digital production at Curious, including film, studio services, and gaming. His team produces the mocap and keyframe motion for the hit franchise Rock Band and the newly announced Beatles Game.  Currently he is producing pre-production on Michel Gondry’s first fully animated feature titled “Megalomania” as well as in full production on a documentary about the evolution of consciousness titled “2012: Time for Change.”

Lewis has a long history of marrying technology and artistry to create innovative new looks. He was producer of all the animation segments in the documentary film, "Chicago 10," which opened the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and showcases a proprietary animation look he was a principal in devising. In 2008 Lewis produced eight minutes of mixed-media animation for the Morgan Spurlock’s "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden."  Another standout style is the rotomation technique that he developed on the award-winning "Avenue Amy "- five years before the ubiquitous ipod dancers. Lewis went on sabbatical from Curious to work at PDI/Dreamworks on the animated feature films "Shrek2" and "Madagascar" as a visual FX animator specializing in water and fluid effects.

He's been with us since 1998, starting out as a CG Artist and VFX supervisor fluent in a variety of media. He has worked on film, commercials, TV series and pilots, music videos, and short-form content for a long client list. Lewis started his career in New York at R\GA and has experience at a range of large and boutique studios. Lewis is self-taught in the field of computer graphics and holds a BS in design from Stanford University.

Outside the studio Lewis created a popular class at the NYU film school in title design and digital FX. He is a certified permaculture designer and spends time in his rooftop garden or generally working to make his community sustainable.  He can be spotted in his natural habitats tapping his Blackberry in natural settings, planting trees in the forests of South America, or behind the wheel of his mutant vehicle at the Burning Man Festival.

Mary Knox is executive producer for our commercials division.

Before Curious, Mary had a varied career in journalism and advertising. Her very first job after graduating from Vassar was as a cub reporter on the obit desk of the Buffalo Courier Express. From there, she escaped to Washington, D.C., as the head of production for Foreign Policy magazine. Wanting to return to writing, Mary then moved to New York City, where she became one of the early reporters covering the burgeoning computer
business. The fact that she even knew what a modem was got Mary her first ad agency job, as a copywriter on the Datapoint business at SSC&B.

Mary went on to work at both Hill Holliday (One Show pencil for
Springmaid Sheets) and Young & Rubicam as a copywriter. She returned to journalism when offered the job as editor of what was then called "Back Stage." Mary oversaw the renaming of the paper ("Shoot" was her idea) and started the still-popular Street Talk section.

After Shoot Mary went to to become both a staff and an independent sales rep for production companies, edit houses and music companies--first on the West Coast and then back in New York.

She has a 10-year-old daughter who thinks it is extremely cool that her mother works someplace that makes toys, cartoons, and music videos.

A co-founder of Curious Pictures, Executive Producer Richard Winkler brings extensive hands-on production experience to the studio’s management team, where he supervises all long form content development and production and leads the company's activities in new media and diversification, including entertainment and branded content for mobile, broadband and interactive.

Among his most recent accomplishments are overseeing the studio’s collaboration with casual game leader Gamelab in the development of a new down-loadable game, “Out of Your Mind,” and the production of 30 minutes of motion capture animation for the documentary “Chicago 10,” which opened the 2007 Sundance Festival.  Richard is also an Executive Producer on Curious’ production of “Little Einsteins” for Disney Channel, “Codename: Kids Next Door” for Cartoon Network, “A Little Curious” for HBO Family and “Avenue Amy” for Oxygen Network.

An acknowledged authority on trends in animation and programming, Richard is a frequent speaker at media industry events, most recently appearing on panels at the Ottawa Animation Festival in 2005, the International Animation Artists Salon in Wuhan, China in 2006 and the Kidscreen Summit in 2007.

An embassy brat who grew up in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Richard went to high school in Rome and graduated from Dartmouth with a BA in Anthropology.  He began his film career overseas and has focused on special effects, mixed media, animation and large format projects.  He worked for a range of production companies in New York, producing documentaries, commercials, telefilms and large format films such as “On the Wing,” an IMAX film produced for the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Museum.  In 1987 he joined the New York animation company Broadcast Arts—the predecessor firm to Curious—where he served as Executive Producer for five years.

He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Stephen’s School in Rome, Italy, his high school alma mater.  His interests include design, photography, architecture, travel, art, language, African Music and 20th century history.  He’s married and lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where he actively participates in single player sports such as tennis, golf, bowling and long distance running.

Leopoldo Gout was born in Mexico City and is based at Curious Pictures' studio in New York. He studied contemporary art in Central Saint Martins School of the Arts in London. He and his younger brother Everardo Gout started Calabazitaz (Tender Squash), an art group and production company 12 years ago. The brothers are directors, writers and producers. Now, Calabazitaz/Voodoo Post is known as one of the best production companies in Mexico with worldwide production experience. They have produced and developed commercials, feature films, animation, television and award winning documentary films and Everardo was nominated for a Grammy in 2007 for a music video for The Killers.

Leopoldo will publish his first novel, Ghost Radio, with Harper Collins in 2008. He is also collaborating with best-selling novelist James Patterson on a graphic novel and is a key executive with James Patterson Entertainment (JPE). JPE debuts a prime time series on ABC in fall 2007 based on Women's Murder Club book series and has numerous films and video games in development. Leopoldo manages the co-production deal between JPE and Curious to develop Patterson-authored young adult titles into animated motion media.

Leopoldo lives in both Manhattan and Mexico City with his wife and two children and their soon-to-be-famous Boston Terrier, Ramona.

John Cline recently joined Curious Pictures as head of production.

John’s career spans both the production and agency sides of the business. After years of line producing, Cline eventually became executive producer at the acclaimed boutique shop Optic Nerve. His work there encompassed live action and visual effects for commercials and promo networks, working with a range of clients such as Nike, Microsoft, HP, Reebok, ESPN, VH1, and MTV.

In 1999 John entered the agency world at a high level, as executive producer at JWT on the Merrill Lynch and Kellogg’s accounts. He moved on to Fallon’s New York office as executive producer. Two of his campaigns there for Virgin Mobile won silver and bronze awards at the One Show, and the Starbucks ad “Glen” was voted Spot of the Year in 2004.

After Fallon closed in New York John became head of production at Nitro USA. He was that agency’s eighth U.S. employee and while there was a key part of the management team that helped the office grow to 70 employees in less than two years. With Nitro John produced immensely successful campaigns for Dove Chocolate, Twix, and Healthy Choice, among others.

John is a graduate of Bard College. His short film, “A Letter To Jonathan,” was aired nationally on American Playhouse in 1989 and was nominated for an Emmy.

He lives with his family in New York City, where he manages his two sons’ baseball teams in the Greenwich Village Little League.

As Creative Director, Dominie works with almost all aspects of the development and creative process.  From seeking out new talent to packaging projects, Dominie leads creative teams for TV and feature projects as well as game development and select commercials. Working closely with both clients and talent, Dominie produces and directs through all stages of the creative process: from the exploratory phase of character and environment development, through storyboarding, production and ultimately final color and design.

Dominie began her animation career at MTV Animation Studio. Starting as an artist in the storyboard department on BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD, where seh quickly moved up the ranks finally being promoted to Production Supervisor. Here she oversaw a number of MTV properties, including "Daria," "The Head," "The Maxx," and "Aeon Flux."

As a freelancer, Dominie has also art directed and done visual development for products, promotional materials, CD packaging, books, games and clothing.

In 2001 Dominie took a sabbatical from animation to illustrate her own line of greeting cards. After successfully building a small business with retailers from New York to Los Angeles, she was eager to work on collaborative projects again, acceptng the invitation to come to Curious in the newly created role of Curator of Art & Design. Her wide skill-set and wealth of experience lead to greater responsibilities and the larger creative role of Creative Director.