Comings and goings at studios and networks in the animation industry.
Conley was most recently executive producer at Wētā FX, where he worked on projects such as ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ ‘The Last of Us’ series, and the Oscar-winning short ‘War is Over!’
Lee will remain at the studio to work on the ‘Frozen’ franchise.
The rehaul includes a promotion for Pablo Zuccarino and the exit of APAC chief Christopher Ho.
She replaces Karen Toliver, who will leave the company.
The independent Montreal vfx company aims to develop its own original animation projects and stories.
Lin will leave his label Rideback to replace outgoing Netflix feature boss Scott Stuber on April 1.
Films made under Bailey’s purview grossed roughly $7 billion at the global box office.
Kim Mackey is the units new executive vp of production talent, Jessie Carbonaro its vp of production talent, and Susan Akinbola its vp of development.
Artists Animation Studio will focus on 2d Harmony and hand-drawn animation services for productions aimed at all ages.
Silvergate Media co-founder and chair William Astor has also stepped down.
In a roundtable, he added: “As an animation studio, I just think it’s important we protect the artists and the art form as long as we can.”
Meledandri says if established studios tried cutting budgets to Illumination levels, it would be disruptive to their artistic culture.
The Harmony and Storyboard Pro developer was purchased by New York-based investment firm Integrated Media Company earlier this year.
In the parody video, faux Zaslav explains what the real Zaslav is doing.
“In the good old days it took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie. I think it won’t take 10% of that three years from now,” he claimed during a panel.
According to Docter, “We’ve told people, ‘Hey, all of this is going to be available to you on Disney+!'”
Unity is under fire for unpopular changes to how game devs will be charged and retroactively changing its TOS.
A 20-plus-year industry vet, Grady has spent the last seven at Imageworks.
Shurer will work on Baobab’s multi-platform ‘Momoguro’ franchise as well as Disney+ series ‘Intercats’ and ‘Witchverse.’
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