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Friday, Feb. 28, 2003
VES Spot Winners: Framestore, DD
Framestore CFC, London, and Venice, Calif.-based Digital Domain topped the spot portion of the first annual Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards during a gala/ceremony held last week in Los Angeles. Framestore's work on Xbox's "Mosquito" for Bartle Bogle Hegarty, London, copped the Best Visual...
Friday, Feb. 28, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces Larry Hampel and Dean Stefanides , founders/creative directors of the shuttered Hampel/Stefanides, New York, are opening a new shop with William Tucker, managing partner of The Tucker Partnership. The new shop will be called Tucker, Hampel, Stefanides , New York, and Hampel and Stefanides...
Friday, Feb. 28, 2003
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design, Equipment and Stock Footage Briefs
SHORT CUTS Shooters Post & Transfer , a post/visual effects facility in Philadelphia, redesigned Comcast SportsNet's on-air package. Shooters team of creative director/art director Kris Magyarits and visual effects artists Kevin Fanning and Ted Devlin spent three months working on the on-air...
Friday, Feb. 28, 2003
Spontaneous Combustion Adds Delcan And Phillips
Visual effects/ design facility Spontaneous Combustion, New York, has hired executive producer Maribeth Phillips and creative director/director Juan Delcan. The hires mark Spontaneous' charge into live action production and a new business philosophy. With the addition of Phillips and Delcan,...
Friday, Feb. 28, 2003
SPECIAL REPORT: POSTPRODUCTION_ A Good Start
In these rocky economic times, one would think that launching a new postproduction facility would be far from a wise idea, and that such a venture would have a slim chance of success. However, Vendetta Post, Santa Monica, is bucking this trend with a vengeance. Formed in November 2002 by industry...
Friday, Feb. 28, 2003
NEWSBRIEFS
Steve Scheiber has been named managing editor at Henninger Media Services, Washington, D.C. He comes over from Fast Cuts, Washington, where he was serving as senior editor. Prior to that, Scheiber worked as an editor at Roland House, Arlington, Va…. Atomic Dog, a full service creative content...
Friday, Feb. 21, 2003
Film California First Program Survives State Budget Crisis
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—With a budget deficit projected to run as high as $35 billion, California, like many other financially strapped states, is in the process of cutting—if not outright eliminating—funding for assorted programs, entities and services. And for a brief time, it appeared that the Film...
Friday, Feb. 21, 2003
Taxi Founder Whips Up Chokolat
TORONTO—Paul Lavoie and Jeff Spriet have launched a Toronto-based branded entertainment company called chokolat. Lavoie, the founder of full-service advertising agency Taxi, which has offices in Toronto and Montreal, will serve as CEO/creative director of chokolat and will remain president of Taxi...
Friday, Feb. 21, 2003
SPECIAL REPORT: TOP HISPANIC ADVERTISING AGENCIES_ New Wave
A few years ago, it was believed by many that much of the advertising aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market lacked creativity. Paco Olavarrieta, chief creative director at The Vidal Partnership, New York, hopes his shop's innovative creative helps to change that perception. "The past generation of...
Friday, Feb. 21, 2003
Driving Mission
Ad agency Rick Johnson & Co. is based in Albuquerque, N.M., but its creative output belies its regional location. Consider its most recent campaign for the New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department's Traffic Safety Bureau, which uses humor to highlight unsafe driving. In "Driver's...