{"id":138816,"date":"2025-09-07T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138816\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:47:10","slug":"the-future-is-bleak-yet-beautiful-at-laser-days-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138816\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Is Bleak Yet Beautiful at Laser Days Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim have been collaborating artistically since they were preteens. Now, they&#8217;re business partners, living the elusive &#8220;working artist&#8221; lifestyle as the co-founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/laserdays.studio\/?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laser Days Studio<\/a>, an experimental media company that uses 3D animation, motion capture, and other tools (including, yes, AI) to create digital art that feels remarkably imbued with life. &#8220;We&#8217;re interested in experimental storytelling and like using digital realms and worlds to tell stories about strange characters from the future,&#8221; Wedge told Hell Gate, from a desk at the Ridgewood studio where the duo currently works.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wedge, they met in middle school band class in Westchester. &#8220;We were both playing the French horn, and I was the worst player, and Will was the best player,&#8221; he said. Growing up, Wedge experimented with &#8220;primitive, crude&#8221; animations, and Freudenheim would concoct scores using Ableton Live. They parted ways for college, but came back together during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Laser Days was born. The duo, both 28, remain the studio&#8217;s only two full time employees, but work with a regular roster of collaborators, who Freudenheim described as a mix of real-life friends and likeminded artists the pair reached out to online. &#8220;Our tagline is, it&#8217;s &#8216;a real-time rendering, world-building studio,'&#8221; Wedge said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>          Give us your email to read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-cta__description mb\">\n          Sign up now for our free newsletters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/newsletter\/\" class=\"passata color-hg__text background-hg__background p-match radius-match border text-2125 text-decoration-none mb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Sign up<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim have been collaborating artistically since they were preteens. Now, they&#8217;re business partners, living&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-138816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}