Chester Nichols
Executive Creative Director and Executive Producer
Chester has a multi-award-winning background as a Creative Director and Producer of original songs, soundtracks, film scores, vocals, film, video, music, animation, auto-Stereoscopic 3D, Special Visual Effects (film and digital), website design and creation, photography, major production and advertising campaigns for Fortune 1000 global clients and more.
He is also an Inductee in The Kansas Music Hall Of Fame joining other great Kansas artists like, Pat Metheny, Kansas, Martina McBride, Melissa Etheridge, Brewer & Shipley, The Red Dogs, Ted Andersen and many, many others.
Chestre has also been honored by the Kansas Historical Society as a Historical Curated Creative Artist and repository where all of Chet's assets are stored and catalogued.
Chester is also a Charter Member of The Illinois Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Route 66.
Chester's list of production companies, directors, producers, artists, accounts, agencies and companies he has worked with is a literal “Who's Who” in the global creative asset production and media producer arenas.
Chester was awarded this Gold Medal at The International Film and TV Festival of New York for his work as a Senior Executive Producer on this commercial. It was directed, produced and shot by Oscar-winner (Star Wars), Robert Blalack and his team at Praxis Film Works in their North Hollywood Special Effects Studio. The spot was produced for the GM-CHEVROLET company and its ad agency Campbell-Ewald in Warren, MI. It introduced their new-cutting edge, multiport engine which became a new engine standard for GM.
Chester was awarded this Clio for his work as a Senior Executive Producer on this commercial. It was directed, produced and shot by Robert Blalack (Star Wars) at Praxis Film Works in their North Hollywood Special Effects Studio. The spot was produced for the GM-CHEVROLET company and its ad agency Campbell-Ewald in Warren, MI. It introduced their new-cutting edge, multiport engine which became a new engine standard for GM.
Chester was awarded this Clio as a Senior Executive Producer. The spot was produced for the 3M company, new AUDIO Tape product. It was directed, produced and shot by Robert Blalack (Star Wars) at Praxis Film Works in their North Hollywood Special Effects Studio.
Chester was awarded this Clio for his work as a Senior Executive Producer on this commercial. It was directed, produced and shot by Oscar-winner (Star Wars), Robert Blalack and his team at Praxis Film Works in their North Hollywood Special Effects Studio. The spot was produced for the GM-CHEVROLET company and its ad agency Campbell-Ewald in Warren, MI. It introduced their new-cutting edge, multiport engine which became a new engine standard for GM.
Chester was awarded this Clio for his work as a Senior Executive Producer on this commercial. It was directed, produced and shot by Oscar-winner (Star Wars), Robert Blalack and his team at Praxis Film Works in their North Hollywood Special Effects Studio. The spot was produced for the GM-CHEVROLET company and its ad agency Campbell-Ewald in Warren, MI. It introduced their new-cutting edge, multiport engine which became a new engine standard for GM.
Chester was awarded his first CLIO and ADDY as an Executive Producer for producing this spot for McDonald's and its agency Needham, Harper and Steers (DDB Needham) in Chicago. It was entitled "SPRING GREEN". It was produced and shot on-location in LA by director, Bob Reagan - CGW in LA 1979. Skip Short was the Senior Executive Producer.
Here is Chet ,"the daredevil", riding an Indian elephant on one of his production shoots in LA. The location was a production ranch that Chet was an Executive Producer at and owned by director Noel Marshall (The Exorcist, The Harrad Experiment) and actress Tippi Hedren (The Birds, Marnie) who used the ranch as a predator, rescue facility and film location for the movie, "ROAR", that they were shooting on the ranch. The first time Chet showed up at "the ranch" and the elephants caught a whiff of Chet, it was "love at first sniff" and the two Indian elephants would fight for his attention. Yee-haw, ride' em Chester! Lord of animal magnetism!