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Business
Attik Opens In Australia. The Attik, a worldwide design
agency, has opened offices in Sydney, Australia to create a stronger global
presence. In the past two years, the company has also launched U.S. offices
in New York and San Francisco. The new office in Sydney will be headed up
by Simon Needham who will relocate to Australia with a number of other colleagues
from the London, U.K. home office. "This is a natural progression for
us. We are a global design company. With our move to Sydney, we will have
access to the Australian-Asian market, as well as servicing our existing clientele
who have an international presence," explains Needham. The Attik hopes
to have a locally-recruited staff of twenty including production, design,
sales and administrative personnel, in place by June 1999.
Tape House Becomes Black Logic. New York-based Tape House Digital has
changed its name to Black Logic announced Alfie Schloss, Vice President, Marketing.
Black Logic is a full-service visual effects company offering graphic design,
high-end compositing, 2D and 3D computer animation and live-action production.
Founded in 1992, the company's mission is to become one of the East Coast's
pre-eminent visual effects and computer animation companies. Schloss stated,
"This is not merely a name change. As Black Logic we have rededicated
ourselves to becoming our clients' collaborator of choice. In essence, our
intention is to redefine ourselves, hoping to meet new challenges and provide
a higher level of excellence."
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| The Funny Farm core crew: (l. to r.) Donna Ervin, Jeff Fastner, Animation Director, Jim Peebles, Animation Director. Photo courtesy Funny Farm Studios. |
Funny Farm Opens Shop In Atlanta. Funny Farm Studios is a new 2D animation studio starting up in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility is headed by Donna Ervin, former manager and producer for DESIGNefx cel animation, and two animation directors, Jim Peebles and Jeff Fastner. "We have enormous talent, experience and speed to offer," states Ervin. The studio will target the national and regional commercial, interstitial programming and web development markets. "We're modeling ourselves on studios such as Film Roman, Klasky Csupo and Nelvana where they gradually grew into animation powerhouses by delivering top quality animation, consistently and reliably over several years," says Peebles. Peebles' previous credits include working at DESIGNefx and animating on shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Tazmania. Fastner's experience includes working at Reelworks in Minnesota and Cartoon Network. Donna Ervin was a scene planner at Disney on Beauty and the Beast, Lion King and Aladdin among others. A unique trait of Funny Farm is that they're located near the Crawford Communications post-production facilities which they believe will enable them to be faster and more competitively priced than many other cel animation studios.
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