Veteran Brand New Schooler Robert Bisi moves into the creative director/director chair after starting as a freelance designer and 3D generalist at the studio way back in 2005. [Watch]
NY/LA editorial house Arcade Edit launches Timber, their creative and digital post production sister company complete with design, concept, animation, compositing, effects, graphics, pre-visualization and color services. The trio in charge: Timber Partner/Creative Director Jonah Hall, Partner/Managing Director Arcade Edit and Timber Damian Stevens, and Timber Partner/Creative Director Kevin Lau. [Watch]
VFX veteran Blythe Dalton Klippsten joins Ntropic‘s LA studio as EP after gigs at Stardust and MassMarket as well as on the TV series’ Jericho, True Blood, Gossip Girl, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. [Watch]
Cally Morton takes over as Psyop‘s EP in LA after wide experience on both coasts including stints at Warner Brothers Studios, New Line Cinema, CBS, E! Entertainment, MJZ and Radical. [Watch]
The 2014 VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy just put out it’s call for entries for short films made from 2013 to 2014 with 2D/3D animation or VFX. Categories include Best Short, Best Design, Best Character and Best Digital Visual Effects. Grand prize winners take home €2,000 (US$2,700). [Watch]
The Mill enthrones Heather Fullerton as the new Managing Director of its 180-person New York office. A former partner at StrawberryFrog in Amsterdam and founding MD of the agency’s NY office and a former EVP at McCann Erickson, Fullerton replaces Alistair Thompson who moved into a global business development role. Fullerton will also serve as a member of The Mill’s Group Executive Board. [Watch]
