International branding agency INVNT has appointed Neil Mason to serve as executive creative director, EMEA. Mason brings more than 20 years’ experience to the role, over which he has led the creative output of experiential and integrated campaigns for brands including Nike, McLaren, Samsung, Google and Cisco. Based in London, Mason joins from Identity Group where he was ECD, and has held sr. creative positions at agencies including George P. Johnson and Jack Morton Worldwide. Throughout his career, he has managed and grown creative departments, elevated existing projects to achieve strategic business goals, and won new business across all sectors. Mason–a judge of the D&AD Awards since 2018, guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London, and member of the board of governors at Ravensbourne University–will report to INVNT managing director Claudia Stephenson….
VFX supervisor Artemis Oikonomopoulou has joined Cinesite’s London studio. She brings with her more than 20 years of experience in film and comes to Cinesite after having just delivered sci-fi thriller Infinite. Prior to that she was the VFX supervisor for Mermaid 2, sequel to the all-time highest grossing film at the Chinese box office. Throughout her career Oikonomopoulou has held various supervisor roles across feature films which include Venom, Thor: Ragnarok, Annihilation and Ant-Man among other tentpole film franchises. Oikonomopoulou has a proven track record for delivering industry-leading visual effects for 1,000-plus shot feature film projects. The achievements of her career were acknowledged in June when she was announced as a newly elected member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On set supervision is one of Oikonomopoulou’s many strengths. Her talents were called upon to supervise a unit in the U.S. for Venom in 2018 and more recently she was on location at the pyramids in Egypt, shooting with drones and capturing background plates for Death on the Nile….
