Director César Pelizer, the animator, illustrator and absurdist, has signed with Hornet for global representation. He has worked with clients such as Google, Apple, Headspace, YouTube, TED, XBOX and McDonald’s. His work has earned two Wooden Pencils at D&DA and a Webby Awards under the “Weird” category. Pelizer’s short films have been screened on the festival circuit including the London Short Film Festival, Clermont Film Fest, Pictoplasma in Berlin and Encounters Film Festival in Bristol…..
Grey Group has launched Grey Consulting. This new global enterprise practice for the network will draw on existing strategic planning resources, which include over 150 professionals across the world, technologists and leading-edge creative intelligence. Leo Rayman, CEO of Grey London, has been promoted to CEO of Grey Consulting, a new global position. A search is underway for his successor at Grey London. Additionally, Suresh Nair, who’s served as the strategic leader of the global Grey network since 2005, has been appointed chief creative intelligence officer. Nair, who has served as the strategic leader of the global Grey network since 2005, has been appointed chief creative intelligence officer. In this new global role, he will be responsible for growing and operating Grey’s data and analytics capabilities and integrating this intelligence organically in the agency’s creativity. He will work closely with Rayman and WPP partners….
Darin Grant has joined Animal Logic as chief technology officer. He becomes part of the company’s group executive team which includes co-founder/CEO Zareh Nalbandian, COO Sharon Taylor and chief business officer Robert Norton. The exec team will oversee all three Animal Logic locations–Sydney, Vancouver and Los Angeles. Grant earlier served as head of production technology at DreamWorks Animation and more recently as the global CTO at Digital Domain and Method Studios….
