Animated Holdings Inc.

Animated Holdings Inc. is the creative entity of Stephen Cooper, a digital artist, director, and performer with three decades of pioneering experience in animation and visual storytelling. From directing the groundbreaking CGI series ReBoot at Mainframe Entertainment to contributing performance animation to critically acclaimed projects like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Academy Award nominee & Annie Award winner), Stephen's work consistently pushes creative and technical boundaries.

Based in Chilliwack, BC, Animated Holdings Inc. is dedicated to leveraging this deep expertise to craft original, impactful interactive experiences at the intersection of art and technology.

Animated Holdings Inc. is currently developing "Compliance Calibration," an intense, short-form VR narrative experience. This project plunges users into a chillingly plausible future, exploring profound themes of surveillance, algorithmic control, and manufactured identity in a world where emerging technologies like Brain-in-a-Vat interfaces and teleoperated existence are rapidly reshaping our reality.

Stephen Cooper serves as the Creative Director, Lead Artist, Designer, Developer, Writer, and motion capture performer for the central antagonist, the Compliance Handler. This role is a powerful synthesis of his past professional acting experience and a recent, intensive year mastering performance capture.