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Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Dir. Jeffrey Fleisig Joins Biscuit Filmworks
Director Jeffrey Fleisig has signed with Biscuit Filmworks, the Los Angeles-based production house launched just over a year ago by executive producer Shawn Lacy Tessaro and director Noam Murro. Fleisig had been briefly represented by now defunct Prop-aganda Films, which went out of business two...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Director David Carson On The Menu
Director David Carson has entered into an exclusive agreement with broadcast graphics and design/production shop Digital Kitchen, Bellevue, Wash., Venice, Calif., and Chicago. The deal secures Carson as a director for Digital Kitchen's film, commercial, new media and Web projects. Carson...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Bassinson Opens InterPost
Oscar Bassinson, a freelance spot director perhaps best known for his work in the food/tabletop and comedy arenas, has opened InterPost, an Encino-based digital editing facility. InterPost maintains what's billed as a broadcast-quality NTSC format network, featuring the G4 system with 533 Dual...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: ANIMATION_ New Models
"I've always loved animation," says Jon Parkinson, senior creative director on the Ford account at J. Walter Thompson, Detroit. "But it's not used that much with cars. I suppose it's because people want to see sheet metal." Recently, Parkinson and his team scrapped the sheet metal and enlisted the...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: ANIMATION_ Calling Plans
We've all seen Cingular Wireless' four-pronged, orange character—the guy who's about two prongs short of an actual phone jack. In past campaigns, this CG-generated spokesfigure (appropriately named "Jack") bounced around the television screen communicating via a cartoon bubble. But recently,...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Doug Johnson has been promoted to audio engineer at Cool Beans Digital Audio, New York. He had been serving as audio assistant at the facility, where he worked with such clients as CBS News, Sci-Fi Channel, Food Network, Kids Footlocker, AT&T and Garnier Lumia. Since his promotion, he's worked...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
AICP/East Holiday Party Draws Cross-Section Of Industry Folk
No swimming was allowed at this pool party—the "pool" referring to billiards, one of the attractions at last month's Association of Independent Commercial Producers' East Coast chapter (AICP/East) holiday get-together, held at Slate, a restaurant, bar and billiards establishment in New York...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Click 3X, Expanding By Design
Visual effects company Click 3X, New York, has hired Iain Greenway as its new creative director, and Cathlyn Cantone for the newly created role of head of business development, broadcast. They come to the firm with strong backgrounds in broadcast design, and represent Click 3X's business strategy...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Levesque Exits Nutmeg, Launches Pair Of Shops
Sound designer/composer Mike Levesque, longtime co-owner of sound design/music company Nutmeg Recording, New York, has left that firm and opened two more. Newly established in Westchester, N.Y., are Mike Levesque Music, a sound design/music house, and RhythmPix, a video production/editing company...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Michael Angelo Lights Flame At Rough House
Michael Angelo has joined Rough House Editorial as its lead Flame/ Smoke artist. He comes over to the San Francisco facility having spent the past three years freelancing on both coasts. Prior to his tenure as a freelance, he was a senior online editor at Pacific Video Resources, San Francisco...