Animation is a whole bunch of fun - it brings an extra dimension to many productions at what can be suprisingly reasonable budgets... and it’s evil stepsister, digital compositing, provides the tools to change the reality you shot into the reality you would have liked to have shot if you were allowed to chop down a few lamp posts, demolish a building or lose a little weight!

We run several integrated systems for creating High Definition and Standard Definition 2D and 3D animation and digital compositing - using Discreet 3D Max and Discreet Combustion as well as a range of PC and Mac graphics software. We output across a computer render farm for speed and flexibility, with mastering to almost any format of tape, or digital files either for edit integration or use as stand-alone pieces. Applications are as varied as online technical help programs, 3D animated flythroughs or simply creating worlds that don’t exist yet.


Chris Layhe Associates, Inc. is a video production company that has been producing award winning video programs for business and broadcast for over twenty five years. We are an independent company dedicated to producing high quality and cost effective marketing, advertising, communications, education, PR and broadcast documentary programs.

Santa Cruz, on the San Francisco Bay, California is our home, but our project work has taken us around the world to get the right footage, and so as well as our San Francisco base we have a presence in Tampa Bay and London to facilitate this.

Our services include video production including project management, concept and script writing, directing, design, single and multi-camera video shooting HDCam on Sony HDW-F900 and Sony HDW-700A Cameras, DVCPro50 on Panasonic AJ-SDX900 and HDV on Sony HVR1U videography, sound, lighting and gaffer services, 2D and 3D animation and digital compositing, video editing and post-production Final Cut Pro HD and Avid digital video editing on HDCam, DVCProHD, DVCPro50, Betacam SP, graphics creation and sound design and audio production, and DVD authoring Scenarist interactive DVD or CD-ROM production, encoding and video compression for DVD, CD, or Web.

Chris Layhe Associates Inc. : award winning corporate and broadcast video production. San Francisco. Tampa Bay. London...
design. write. shoot. animate. edit. author. direct. produce