Alex Frisch–who spent the past year focused on building a global network of digital artists after having left his managing director’s post at Method Studios in 2009–has joined creative studio/digital agency Imaginary Forces (IF) as a creative director and VFX supervisor.
Frisch brings a much needed special brand of expertise to IF, said Peter Frankfurt, managing director of the studio. “IF has seen an explosion of VFX in our projects and its importance in our storytelling. We are re-thinking the way to use VFX, and having Alex here gives us an opportunity to increase our capability for doing that,” related Frankfurt.
Fellow IF managing director Chip Houghton added, “It’s important to note that the idea is not to become a VFX studio but to harness what’s going on online and across every platform right now.”
Frisch is known for his VFX work on high-end commercials, feature films and music videos. In 1998, he co-founded Method Studios where he specialized in creating VFX for commercials. He became the shop’s managing director in 2002 and departed the company in ’09 to channel his efforts into the alluded to global network of talent. The idea behind the network was to set up a pipeline to create high-end productions with lower overhead costs and to utilize hand picked top artists on a per project basis. Frisch produced three projects with that network and then began collaborating in a low-profile fashion with IF on commercials.
Frisch said he was drawn to the IF team’s storytelling prowess and penchant for developing highly creative projects. Furthermore, IF will give greater impetus to the global pipeline he has been shaping. Frisch and IF have decided to partner, said Frisch, “on creating an international network of artists that will support us in creating our own content and projects; I have been cultivating this group over the course of this year and we are going to roll it out in 2011.”
Kamala Harris Receives Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards
Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
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