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Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Kate O'Neill Settles Down At Black Logic
After five years as a freelance Flame/Inferno artist, Kate O'Neill has joined Black Logic, the New York-based visual effects division of The Tape House group of companies. An Australian native, O'Neill has freelanced steadily for Black Logic since the beginning of this year. O'Neill comes to Black...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Walker-Curts Named Exec. Prod. At Radium
Executive producer Darby Walker-Curts and operations manager Paul Abatemarco have joined visual effects studio Radium/Santa Monica. The pair will work closely with the team at Radium/ San Francisco, including exec producer Anastacia Feldman. Walker-Curts and Abatemarco are hardly strangers to one...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Colorist Bob Curreri Heads To The Syndicate
Colorist Bob Curreri, formerly of R!OT, Santa Monica, has come aboard The Syndicate, a Santa Monica-based visual effects/telecine specialty firm. His latest credits include spots for J.C. Penney, Blue Cross, McDonald's, KFC and a FOX Sports promo for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. He also...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Dana Bol Opens Tall Girl
Dana Bol, founder and former principal of now defunct arc.light editorial, has launched a commercial editing boutique dubbed Tall Girl. Staffers at the new venture are editor Bol and assistant editor Luke Roth. Bol has positioned Tall Girl as a "virtual company," which will hire additional artisans...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Echo Boys Adds Chastain
Ken Chastain has come aboard music and sound design house/recording studio Echo Boys, Minneapolis. Chastain will do composing work, sound design, and audio mixing for the shop, which is run by principals Tom Lecher, Harry Pulver, Jr., Bob Millea and Randy Anderson. Additionally, Chastain will...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Dirs. Scott, Woo, Carnahan Answer "The Hire" Calling
As reported in last week's "Street Talk," directors have been set for the next three installments in BMW of North America's "The Hire" series of Web-based short films, out of Fallon Minneapolis. The helmers are: Tony Scott (whose feature filmography includes Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Crimson...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Grimshaw Enters The Orphanage
Paul Grimshaw has joined digital studio The Orphanage, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as VP/ executive producer of its commercial and music video division. The San Francisco-based Grimshaw had been executive producer at Industrial Light + Magic Commercial Productions (ILMCP), which closed its doors...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
HD Expedition: JWT For Ford SUV
J. Walter Thompson, Detroit, presents "Exhibit A," a :60 for the 2003 Ford Expedition that was shot with Panasonic's AJ-HDC27 VariCam high definition video camera due to a variety of conditions surrounding the production. The spot used 3-D modeling, miniatures, live action, dense compositing and...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
AUGUST 15, 1997/Director/cameraman Henry Sandbank has announced his retirement from helming Hawthorne, N.Y.-based Sandbank Films. His son director David Sandbank and executive producer Robert Berman will continue the production house under a new, as-yet-unnamed, entity….Palomar Pictures, Los...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
Five Animation Directors Decide To Pow Wow
Pow Wow Productions, the Santa Monica-based animation studio founded by director David Smith and executive producer Donna Smith, has added five new creative artists to its roster: Sheila Aldridge, Tim Biskup, David Brewster, John Corbitt and Miles Thompson. Pow Wow will represent the artists—who...