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Productivity in offices across the country is about to plummet with the launch of the new-and-improved gaming site Uproar.com (www. uproar.com). Its mission: "Let There Be Fun."
Bearing the millennium-conscious name "Uproar 2000," the site's enhanced offerings have re-entered the online...
Riot, the Santa Monica-based post/visual effects shop, has expanded its telecine department, hiring colorists Beau Leon, Clark Muller and Robert Curreri, and promoting Darby Walker to executive producer, telecine services. The personnel changes follow a yearlong expansion of Riot's resources...
The Attik has named James Somerville group creative director. He will oversee the development of The Attik throughout the company's five offices in London; Huddersfield, England; New York; San Francisco; and Sydney, Australia.
Additionally, New York-based executive producer Jim Moran has...
'Tis the season for muckraking, but are the political watchdogs getting a little paranoid? It would seem that way, based on recent accusations in the media that claim a Pizza Hut ad called "Senator," created by BBDO New York, was the result of a link between New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's...
Steel Film Productions, New York, has opened Acero, a New York-based division that will produce commercials for the Hispanic market. (Acero is Spanish for "steel.") Andres Calvo, who formerly ran Calvo Associates, a rep company that specialized in Hispanic market directors, will be executive...
Word is that director Gore Verbinski of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and the British co-directing team known as Hammer + Tongs, last with bicoastal U Ground, are joining 8Media, the Culver City, Calif.-based production venture launched by former Propaganda chairman/cofounder Steve...
AS CHRONICLED IN THIS week's California Special Report, the Association of Imaging Technology and Sound (ITS) has given new meaning to the term "postproduction process." Reporter Millie Takaki's story (p. 23) provides a thorough rundown of the process, whereby the ITS helped to bring about a...
In the story "Coppos Names Appel, Ferraro To Key Roles" (10/22/99, p. 4), the title of Joanne Ferraro appeared inaccurately in the deck. Ferraro is national director of sales/East Coast managing director for bicoastal Coppos Films. Her title was accurately reported in the story itself.
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R/Greenberg Associates (R/GA), New York, has added two animators to its ranks, Jeff Guerrero and Patrick Porter. The duo join the studio's CG department, which is experiencing an increase in workload.
At R/GA, Guerrero and Porter have already begun animation work on new spots for Dodge...
Bruce Martin has become president/managing partner of No Prisoners, a Los Angeles-based commercial production company launched by feature producer Todd Moyer, founder of the year-old visual effects house No Prisoners 3DFX, also in L.A. The spot shop opens with three directors: Barnaby Jackson,...