About us
Founded in 2018, The Werk Howse is a boutique production services firm focusing on the film, TV and video games industries. From project management to motion capture, we handle the details so you can focus on your vision.
Meet the team
Our Founders
The co-founders have combined, more than 50 years experience working in entertainment, producing and leading physical production/motion capture for a range of Oscar and Emmy nominated/winning titles as well as AAA award winning, best-selling video games .
Co-founder
Dennis "DJ" Hauck
Dennis “DJ” Hauck is CEO of The Werk Howse, a production services firm he co-founded with his partner Rosanna Sun in 2018. DJ bridges technologists, artists, producers and business stakeholders to make the process of creating digital content better and faster by leveraging his 25 years of professional experience in visual effects, games, broadcast and interactive media.
DJ has a proven track record of turning process into product, and has created success by enabling people to do what they do best, focus on creativity and critical thinking and finding ways for technology to do the rest.
Prior to forming The Werk Howse, DJ held a number of positions at the intersection of design, technology and 3D graphics including with Sony Imageworks, House of Moves and The Digital Concepts Group. DJ is an inventor of multiple patents in motion capture and facial motion, both of which he has employed in high-profile features and video games.
DJ is a graduate of the Industrial Design program at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where he focused on special effects and 3D graphics and animation. He lives in Los Angeles.
Some of DJ Hauck's work includes
Over the course of his career, DJ has worked on Emmy- and Oscar-winning titles including The Mandalorian, The Polar Express, She-Hulk, Dune (Parts 1 & 2) and Monster House in addition to best-selling video games Hogwarts Legacy, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Resident Evil: Biohazard, Resident Evil Village and The Quarry.
He has also worked on Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 & 2, Deadspace 2 & 3, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Battlefield Hardline and even a live concert hologram for the late Black Sabbath frontman Ronnie James Dio.
Co-founder
Rosanna Sun
Rosanna Sun is the Executive Producer and COO of The Werk Howse. With over 20+ years of professional experience, Rosanna handles casting talent, producing high-profile motion capture and live action production, budgeting, consulting for streaming projects and much more.
Rosanna also has an extensive background in video game production, working on best-selling titles. Prior to forming The Werk Howse, Rosanna served as Director of Development for Roland Joffe’s production company, worked for years in live action physical roduction on large scale, multi-year global motion pictures, was Senior Executive Producer with House of Moves and took on the position of Creative Producer on multiple videogame, streaming and TV projects.
Rosanna is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Los Angeles.
Some of Rosanna Sun's work includes
Over the course of her career, Rosanna has produced and worked on many Oscar- and Emmy- nominated titles and other highly-acclaimed projects including A Thin Red Line, The Matrix: Reloaded & Revolutions, Love on the Spectrum, Galaxy Quest and Titanic.
She has also produced and casting directed multiple video game titles including LA Noire, The Descendents, Mortal Combat X, Devil’s Third, Injustice and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Fun Facts
Our Company Name
“The Werk Howse” was named by the duo’s young daughter who would ask if they were going to the ‘work house’, as opposed to the ‘home house’. Once the company was founded, she would go on to design the logo and create the company font. To this day, the child maintains that she is the top boss of the company.