Jonathan Shipman has been named head of integrated production in the New York office of visual effects, animation and digital production company Framestore. With more than 25 years of production experience in advertising, Shipman will add a broad range of skills and unique business perspective to Framestore NY as the company transitions into a new stage of growth. He will report directly to Jon Collins, president of Framestore.
Previously, Shipman was head of integrated production at McCann Erickson, where he was instrumental in establishing and growing the company’s integrated production offering for major brands, including Dentyne, General Mills, Nestle Waters, MasterCard, Kohl’s and Nikon.
Shipman spent the past 12 years at McCann Erickson, starting out as an executive producer and moving up the ranks to deputy head of production, and finally head of integrated production. He is distinguished for creating the company’s first-ever integrated department, and evolving its postproduction facility from strictly client services and new business operations into high-end creative.
Prior to McCann, he was a senior producer at Ogilvy & Mather, where he worked on accounts that included Jaguar, Amex, Kimberly Clark and Kraft. Shipman began his career at DMB&B.
Collins said that Shipman will help accelerate Framestore’s continued evolution into a team of creative, strategic problem solvers.”
Recently, Framestore worked with The Coca Cola Company to help produce the “Polar Bowl,” the second-screen engagement that attracted more than 600,000 viewers during the 2012 Super Bowl and received worldwide attention. It also partnered with Drive Productions to create a 4D projection on the Maritime Hotel in New York for Hewlett Packard’s new Z800 workstation. The animation, called “Elf Factory,” featured Santa’s helpers busy at work constructing the new HP device debuting during the holidays.
Framestore is an Oscar-winning visual effects company (The Golden Compass), creates images for every platform and is regarded as a leading U.K. authority on stereoscopic 3D. In addition to working for Hollywood studios, advertisers, ad agencies, production and gaming companies, Framestore also generates its own paid-for content, including: VFX in Your Pocket and Polar Peril.
Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies โ often as Allen's best friend โ has died. He was 85.
Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.
Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.
"I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.
Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).
"Roberts' confident onscreen presence โ not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane โ was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
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