Loni Peristere / Biography

Loni Peristere co-founded Zoic Studios in 2002 with partners Chris Jones and Steve Schofield. He is an acting creative director for commercial, episodic, and feature animation projects. Loni won the Emmy and the VES award in 2003 for Special Visual Effects in a Television Series for Twentieth Century Fox's "Firefly". He was a multiple nominee, with a second nod for Twentieth Century Fox's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". During his tenure in visual effects he has been nominated and directed numerous award-winning projects. Prior to Zoic, Loni served as creative director for Radium, Los Angeles where he oversaw various commercial and episodic projects including Twentieth Century Fox's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" to which he previously contributed from 1996-1999 while at Digital Magic/POP/RIOT. The Massachusetts native first began working with visual effects in college at the University of Massachusetts where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Literature in 1995. His direction of the 1996 Paul Tucker Award winning short film "Twilight" brought him to the attention of Digital Magic in 1996.