About Us

design leaders

Uptown Studios has quite a history and a great reputation! Uptown Studios started in 1992 with owner Tina Reynolds and began it's adventure in 'changing the world!' Tina slowly added creative professionals along the way and has taken Uptown Studios to the top of its game.

Tina has always led by example and with her fiery enthusiasm and encouragement, all staff have the opportunity to participate in community activism and volunteer in causes they feel passionate about.

your creative team

Tina Reynolds

Owner of Uptown Studios

Tina has been running her own design firm since 1976. Tina is the community face to Uptown Studios, she is always ready and eager to get your project going, give you enough information with the experience that will give you the “big picture” on your campaign or marketing materials. She is always there to remind you to “Make it Easy, Fun and Popular”

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

— Goethe

Cris Weber

Art/Web Director

Cris has owned and partnered in Sacramento design firms since 1994. She is an alumni of California State University Sacramento — Department of Design where she also taught for 6 years. Cris joined the Uptown team in 2007 and couldn't be happier. She loves a well designed campaign as much as welding in her art studio. Let's make some creative sparks fly.

“The best way to predict the future is to design it.”

— Buckminster Fuller

Anton Weaver

Lead Designer

Anton has been with Uptown for four and a half years and is passionate about all things design. Anton loves the creative process and seeing a client's finished piece come to life. He's good with just about any graphic style and can bring something unique to your project whatever it may be. Anton is also passionate about white space and anything with two or more wheels.

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Kate Moore

Multimedia Director

Kate is an experienced graphic designer who specializes in set design, animation and video projects for Uptown Studios. Kate knows the way to make your video projects get noticed on TV, the web and mobile devices. She is also our expert on Social Media Marketing and SEO.

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

— Dale Carnegie

Caroline Rosso

Production Assistant

Caroline is our brand new Production Assistant, but she's by no means "brand new" to detailed office operations, budget proposals, and client communications. She brings her knowledge and "go-to" organizing attitude to Uptown's new production pipeline. Efficiency never looked so good! Give us a call and she'll probably be the first person to greet you and help with anything you may need.

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today”

—

Steve Knau

Web Developer

Steve has been with Uptown for three years and is a hardworking employee as well as a student. He will be attending UC San Diego starting this Fall and is majoring in Computer Science. Over the past few years, he has been working with HTML, PHP, MySQL, and other tools for web development. Steve is reliable when it comes to getting the job done.

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

—Gary Player