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Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
MARCH 21, 1997/Computer animation director/ designer Henry Anderson has joined Blue Sky Studios, Harrison, N.Y., as animation director for commercial and feature work. He comes over from Venice, Calif.-based Digital Domain, where he was creative director, 3-D animation, for nearly a year….Multiple...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
Version2. Taps Cary Gries
Version2. Editing, New York, has announced the addition of editor Carey Gries. He joins a roster that includes cutters Vito DeSario, Lin Polito, Mark Nickelsburg, Fred Jordan, Tina Mintus and Sandrine Cheyrol. Gries' editorial background includes television, music videos and commercial projects...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
Flipside Expands Talent Roster At Its Two Facilities
Flipside Editorial, an editing/post/effects boutique with shops in San Francisco and Santa Monica, has brought on three editors who will be based at the latter site: Hank Polonsky, Tracy Hof and Natasha Uppal. Flipside has also taken on exclusive spot representation for editor Luis Ruiz, who had...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: Directors_ Editor's Note
Hope springs eternal in spring. That's true even in these tumultuous times. The past year or so has seen many changes in the world of commercial production. Several prominent and longstanding spot houses have shut their doors, and advertisers have cut back on budgets across the board, leading many...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: Directors_ rad-ish
Don't ask directing team Christoph Chrudimak and Moritz Friedel about what their nom de film, rad-ish, means. They're tired of the question and they say they don't know. "It has no meaning," says Chrudimak. "We don't know where it came from. Someone gave it to us one day some years ago because...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: Directors_ Baker Smith
Baker Smith was shooting a Mini Cooper car spot when a call came in from his business partner/executive producer, Bonnie Goldfarb. "She was screaming into the phone," recounts Smith, partner/ director at Harvest, Santa Monica, which he founded with Goldfarb in March 2001. "I had no idea what she...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: Directors_ Stacy Wall
Few kids can predict their future careers, but the writing was literally on the wall of Stacy Wall's childhood bedroom in Winston-Salem, N.C. Posters of The Muppet Show characters and basketball legend George "Iceman" Gervin (a hall-of-famer who played with, among others, the San Antonio Spurs and...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Joining J. Walter Thompson , New York, are director Richard Sabean and writer Jeff Watzman -as group creative directors working on the Domino's Pizza account. Both began freelancing at the agency last year. Holland Henton has been tapped by Foote, Cone & Belding , Irvine, Calif., as senior VP/...
Friday, Mar. 15, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: STOCK FOOTAGE_ A New Face For Ford
As the Ford Motor Company prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2003, things are not humming along as smoothly as they could be at the house that Henry built. Last year, the company suffered $5.5 billion in losses, weathered a controversy over its Firestone-equipped Explorer, was forced to cut 35...
Friday, Mar. 15, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: STOCK FOOTAGE_ Bringing Good Images To Life
The NBC Agency, the in-house ad department for NBC, didn't have to go far to find the stock footage it needed to create General Electric's "Then & Now." The :60, which aired during the Winter Olympic Games broadcast, features stock elements that were conveniently located in the archives of both...