RING OF FIRE expands its flames with six new artists. Joining the

Hollywood, California-based visual effects and design studio are Infero

artists ALI LAVENTHOL and ALAN LATTERI, visual effects/digital composite

artist JEREMY ALCOCK, CGI artist JOHN JENKINS and producers JILL HEINRICH

and KIMBERLY EVANS. Before Ring of Fire, Laventhol was a freelance Flame

artist working at Rhythm & Hues. Latteri comes to Ring of Fire with credits

on X-FILES: THE MOVIE, STAR TREK IX: INSURRECTION and GODZILLA. Coming from

Pittard Sullivan, Alcock served as a digital artist on spots for ABC's

TGIF, ABC movie opens, Fox Family, VH1 "Music First" and FX Channel.

Previously a freelancer for the company, Jenkins will bring his specialties

in Maya to Ring of Fire full-time. From August 1989-July 1999, Jenkins was

the lead animator at Los Angeles-based Visual Magic Images. At San

Francisco-based Attik, Heinrich served as associate producer on projects

for UPN, Adidas and Columbia Tri-Star. Re-locating from Atlanta, Evans

brings production experience from Turner Broadcasting, Big Mouth

Productions and iXL.