Industry veteran Terry Clotiaux has joined Frantic Films VFX (a division of Prime Focus Group) as SVP/COO, Visual Effects Worldwide for Prime Focus Group, and Senior Exec Producer for North America. Clotiaux will be based out of Frantic's Hollywood facility, and has been tasked with building out the company's international vfx operation and establishing its Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Vancouver offices as the North American front-end for Prime Focus Group's network of global facilities, which spans across North America, India and the U.K.
Said Michael Fink, CEO, Frantic Films VFX, "Terry has produced visual effects for some of the largest vfx films ever made, and understands the business like no one else I've met. He's just begun at Frantic, yet his presence is already making a huge difference in our operations. I'm looking forward to having fun and working hard with Terry while we grow Frantic Films VFX and Prime Focus Visual Effects."
Clotiaux is a 20-year industry veteran who joins Frantic after serving as exec producer at Digital Domain, where he worked on G.I. JOE: RISE OF COBRA, SPEED RACER, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR and THE GOLDEN COMPASS, and was instrumental in bringing on board 2012 with director Roland Emmerich. Previous to Digital Domain, Clotiaux was a senior vfx producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks overseeing work on SPIDER-MAN 3. Additionally, he holds vfx producing credits on such films as ALEXANDER, THE MATRIX RELOADED, THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS and INDEPENDENCE DAY, which took home the Academy Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in 1997.
Clotiaux also spent six years with The Chandler Group, where he was exec producer on projects such as BATMAN RETURNS, CABIN BOY, BATMAN FOREVER and numerous commercial and trailer assignments. Prior to that, worked with Doug Trumbull at Showscan Company. Clotiaux began his career in 1976, where he spent 10 years as a producer with TV production company Robert Guenette Productions.
"What excites me about joining Frantic Films VFX and Prime Focus Group is how these companies are drawing on their combined assets and relationships in North America, India and the U.K. and bringing that knowledge, technology and experience to both the Western film market and the exploding film industry in Bollywood," Clotiaux said. "I was also very attracted to Frantic Films VFX for its legacy of providing complex effects quickly and cost efficiently, and my goal is to build upon that history by ushering in even more complicated work and delivering higher level results -- all while maintaining the boutique qualities that make Frantic special as both a creative vendor and a place to work."
