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Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
Alex Brodie, Christine Carr Come Aboard Company 3
Company 3, the Santa Monica-based telecine/visual effects house active in commercials, music videos and longform, has expanded its effects operation with the hiring of Henry artist/effects supervisor Alex Brodie and visual effects producer Christine Carr. Both come over from 525 Studios, a shop...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
Colin McGreal Joins Charlex As Cr. Director
With the recent launch of Web and 3-D divisions, Charlex, the New York-based hybrid postproduction/ design/graphics firm, has brought on Colin McGreal to fill the new position of creative director. He'd been freelancing there as a designer for the last two years. Since 1977, Charlex has had only...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
The Butterfly Screams
LOS ANGELES-By most rational standards, a movie with a mysterious, red-eyed monster at plot's center falls squarely into the horror genre. And for some moviegoers, a feature film dependent on Richard Gere's facial expressions for the bulk of its emotional impact also qualifies as a horror flick...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
Post/VFX And Music/Sound Design Briefs
SHORT CUTS New York-based Zona Design created a program package open-including bumpers, lower thirds and a billboard--for Tought Guys , a series running on American Movie Classics (AMC). The :15 open features an adrenaline-fueled, tongue-in-cheek melange of live-action footage combined with vibrant...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
BBDO Minneapolis has added Ed Hernandez to its creative department, as senior art director. Most recently he was an art director at SpyGlass Creative, Minneapolis.
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
Slo.Graffiti Adds Marquis As Executive Producer
Executive producer Matthew Marquis has joined Slo.Graffiti, a division of Los Angeles-based Palomar Pictures that specializes in nurturing up-and-coming commercial directing talent from various disciplines (i.e., artists, designers, film school grads and feature helmers). He will also be involved...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
Spontaneous Names Kapsalis Managing Dir.
Sally Kapsalis has been promoted to managing director of Spontaneous Combustion, a New York-headquartered design, visual effects and animation facility. Kapsalis, who had been head of sales and marketing at Spontaneous for the past year and a half, ascends following the departure of the company's...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Edgeworx has hired Caleb Cooks as in-house director/executive producer. Prior to joining the New York-headquartered postproduction facility, Cooks had been serving a producer at PBS, Alexandria, Va….mOcean, a Venice, Calif.-based creative solutions company specializing in the design and production...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: AGENCY PRODUCERS_ Juggling Act
The past year-plus has seen an inordinate number of layoffs at numerous ad agencies—a purge from which production departments were not immune. Frequently, higher-paid senior production staffers were the first to be let go, in a scenario that many observers regard as being penny-wise and pound-...
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: AGENCY PRODUCERS_ Drive On
Many adjectives could be used to describe John Van Osdol's job at D'Arcy Detroit, Troy, Mich., but "boring" isn't one of them. "I liken it to a firestorm," remarks Van Osdol, who joined D'Arcy as senior VP/director of broadcast production in June 2001. "It's basically putting out the blazes that...