Culver City, California-based advertising consultants Random/Order
Information and Entertainment has hired Robert Abel to oversee several
aspects of its consulting services, as well as to develop new content and
programming. CGI-pioneer Abel has created many landmark titles, including
commercials for Apple Computer, IBM, the Smithsonian Institution, and the
Mayo Clinic. His many technical innovations include: the first "motion
control" camera system, "streak photography," and the first algorithms for
computer animated human movement.