If you saw the "Fantastic Four" movie commercials for the Dodge last summer, you probably saw a spiffy-looking Dodge zoom through it. Making that car fly is the handiwork of Milagro Post, a Southfield-based visual-effects firm.
The company put together the special effects that make the futuristic automobile hover, fly and created its instrument panel. So even though the car was a real model (all two tons and 27 feet of it) its cool features were the product of imagination that calls Metro Detroit home.
Milagro Post utilizes that sort of creativity for a number of advertising and marketing services. They are mainly focused on film services and supplying content for broadcast, the Internet and are now looking into expanding into mobile phones.
"We seem to be flooded with work to do," says Michael Suggs, one of the firm's co-founders.
That has helped it grow exponentially in its five year history. The firm started with six people and has now burst to 30 employees. It did that by accomplishing its 5-year business plan in only two years. Milagro Post hired six people in the last couple years alone.
And it hopes to continue on that sort of growth pattern. The firm's leaders are hoping the new tax incentives for the film industry in Michigan will bring in even more work and help them create even more revenue and jobs.
"We're starting to field calls from Hollywood already," Suggs says. "We would be very happy to see some of that work here."
Source: Michael Suggs, co-founder of Milagro Post
Writer: Jon Zemke
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