Jonathan Ecklund

Job Title:
Producer

What do I do?
Primarily I am responsible for the final output (i.e. look and feel of an animation) of many of our projects, and I am intricately involved in the production process from start to finish. I do a lot of compositing, DVD authoring, graphic design and editing for the ghOst.

What's the coolest thing about Ghost?
The people I get to work with here are fantastic, and I've known them for almost 8 years now, so the relationships are solid and real. Even when we have to work late, it's still a great environment, and it's hard to keep from laughing all the time.

What do I do when I'm not working?
I love spending time with my wife, Ali. She's awesome and I love her more than anything. Board games are always a good distraction, and we like TV shows on DVD. I like to go sailing and wakeboarding in the summertime, and love skiing and traveling to warm places in the winter. My wife and I are also very politically active. I really dig gambling, primarily of the Poker variety, video games are also an entertaining distraction.

My story:
I was born and raised in Minnesota, growing up in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities. After a brief stint in the public schools, I went to Mounds Park Academy, where in 9th thought 11th grade I convinced the school to purchase Infini-D, a 3-D software package, Adobe Photoshop 2.0, and Adobe Premier, for the computer lab. Over the next 4 years I got hooked on 3D modeling, graphic design, and motion graphics. I graduated in 1998 and headed south to the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where i was enrolled in the Moving Images Arts department to study film and film production. In the summers of 2000 and 2001 I interned at Ghost Productions in Minnesota, an entertaining but often bruising time. Over my 4 years of study at CSF, I ended up developing a custom major for myself, a combination of film theory, video production, photography, art, and interactive video installation development. After graduating in 2002, I moved back to Minnesota and founded 444 Productions, a small indepenting graphic and web design studio, renting an office space from Ghost Productions. The more time I spent there, the more Ghost work came my way until I was eventually hired on full time. In 2004/2005, I suffered from my quarter-life crisis, left the company, and spent the next 5 months traveling the country with my future wife. Out of money, we settled down in Saint Paul while I worked for a local tech company, FirstTech computer. A little over 2 years into FirstTech, Ghost Productions offered me my old job back, and so the prodigal employee returns.

Favorite Internet Links:
www.wikipedia.org
www.thememoryhole.org
www.engadget.com

Email:
jonathan@ghostproductions.com

AIM Account:
lasthope444