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Friday, Nov. 8, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN_ Fantasy Trio
For SHOOT's Fall top 10 chart, the three highest ranking spots have one thing in common: they all take an absurd, fantasy-like situation and make it feel real. A poignant piano tune causes viewers to feel empathy with a discarded lamp for Ikea, while sound design and an eerie score accompany the...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
Knight Takes Majority In Vinton Deal
PORTLAND, Ore.—Nike co-founder Philip Knight has upped his minority stake in dimensional animation house Vinton Studios to majority ownership. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Suffice it to say that Knight's investment is significant, helping to accelerate Vinton's expansion plans in...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Steve Rudasics has joined FCB Seattle in the position of creative director. He had been freelancing for the past year and a half.
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
Barnes Produces For Wild(child) And Voodoo
After three years with Grey Worldwide, New York, Shannon Barnes has joined New York editorial facility Wild(child) and sister company Voodoo Design & Visual EFX as producer. The new position marks Barnes' return to postproduction. In 1996, she began her career as a production coordinator at...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
Black Logic Adds Kuan Lin To Team
Black Logic, New York, the visual effects/production company division of the Tapehouse group of companies, has hired Kuan Lin as a full-blown member of the visual effects team. Lin's permanent position as CG artist on the Black Logic staff follows a six-month stint with the company that began with...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Animators/graphics designers Eric Hochstein and Mark Levy have joined Flite 3 Studios, Baltimore. Hochstein was previously a graphic artist with the 3M Corporation. He will be offering design and graphic services for the firm's corporate, educational and advertising agency clients. Levy worked as a...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design and Equipment Briefs
SHORT CUTS J.J. Sedelmaier Productions , White Plains, N.Y., completed an animated spot for the American Association of Poison Control Centers and New York agency SawyerMiller Advertising. The :30, titled "Baby Point of View," shows an inquisitive tot--rendered in pen and ink on a white background...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
Honda Drives Into IMAX Theaters For Rubin Postaer
SANTA MONICA—Despite the never-ending brainstorming of great minds searching for new ways to communicate their clients' messages, somehow the notion of shooting a commercial in the IMAX format has gone without any real attention for years. Although the 70mm film format is famous for taking...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
Baby's First Birthday
Bouncing baby Aice A. Ward, whose long overdue birth to proud parents Oscar and Emmy A. Ward was announced in this space one year ago, is celebrating his first birthday Hollywood-style, with a bash at The Highlands in Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 14. This posh event will be hosted by his uncles,...
Friday, Nov. 1, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
OCTOBER 31, 1997/Feature director Wim Wenders has entered his L.A.-based longform company, Kintop Pictures, into an association with Orbit Productions, Hollywood, for exclusive spot representation….Comedy director Gary Weis has left bicoastal 1/33 Productions after more than five years, to start...