Unidentified Flying Studios is a unique company that assembles artists according to the needs and budget of a project. Whether you need one person or a whole team, UFstudios can help you decide the best way to use your budget.

Creator/Director John Christopher Gibson began creating visual art at the age of 12 when his parents purchased a video camera that he quickly began using to make crude in-camera-edited movies with his friends. Being a resourceful young man he began implementing homegrown special effects that he came up with after realizing that mixing all the colors in a 4 pack of play-doh, except only half the blue, made a perfect flesh color. At the age when book reports were frequently assigned he was allowed by his teachers to do his reports as short remakes of such books as Animal Farm, Alien and Carrie to name a few.

John continued to pursue his love of movies throughout grade-school and college where he attended film school at the University of Texas at Arlington and worked at a large Dallas production company where he was able to get hands on experience working on commercial productions as a grip and Best Boy electric. He moved to Austin in January of 2001 where he worked as the Video Production Director for Gathering Of Developers, a video game publisher, where he was in charge of creating game trailers, behind the scenes videos and various other high-energy marketing and promotional materials. He was also the Director of Video Production at Substance TV, a DVD magazine where he traveled the US to shoot original stories about extraordinary people, places and ideas.

From 2002 until 2009 he was co-owner of Real Normal Productions where he worked with an extremely large number of clients including the Air Force, Pepsi, GSD&M, TribalDDB Dallas, Nokia, Frito Lay and many, many more. John is an avid film watcher and has been since the age of 4 when he saw his first film, Star Wars, at the theater. When he isn’t working, John loves to read, write screenplays, make films and sit outside on dark nights far from civilization with his beautiful wife and his telescope and gaze at the infinite universe. He continues to discover new ways to apply his talents to create dynamic and entertaining visual media to stimulate the mind and dazzle the eyes.