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Mac Guff Ligne, a Paris-headquartered visual effects house, is expanding into the U.S. market with an office in Los Angeles. The new outpost is a joint venture between Mac Guff Ligne and visual effects artisan Simon Scott, whose experience includes tenures at such shops as A52, Los Angeles, and Method, Santa Monica…..Video editor Preston Stewart has joined rhinopost, New York. He comes over from Palace Studios, New York, where he primarily cut high-profile documentary projects such as The History Channel’s The American Presidency for which he served as co-offline editor, online editor and colorist. With 20-plus years of experience, Stewart has worked for such companies as Videoworks, R. Greenberg Associates (now R/GA) and CBS Television. His clients have included MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central, Showtime, Cinemax, HBO, TV Land, Oxygen, A&E, Discovery Channel, BET, Spike TV, FX and ESPN. Stewart has also been active in music videos for such artists as the Goo Goo Dolls, Paul Stewart and Shabazz, and Tom Waits….New York-based wild(child) post has taken on East Coast representation for editor Sylvette Artinian. Based in Santa Monica, Artinian has cut spots for such leading brands as Mercedes-Benz, Ralph Lauren, Oil of Olay and Johnson & Johnson…..Editor Tamara Treu, whose credits span short and long form fare, has joined Fluid Editorial, New York. For the past four years, Treu has maintained a freelance relationship with several New York ad agencies, including Publicis Dialog, Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, and Foote, Cone & Belding. Treu rounds out a Fluid roster of editors that also consists of editor/designer Alex Frowein, and editors Bruce Ashley, Greg Letson, Scott Philbrook and Victor Melton. Fluid’s managing partner/exec producer is Marc Schwartz. Editorial producers are Virginia Galvan and Rasha C. Hamilton….Bent Image Lab, Portland, Ore., has added senior producer Tsui Ling Toomer, director/technical director Jim Clark and producer Gretchen Miller. Toomer most recently served as associate dean at the Art Institute of Portland. Her production experience includes producing and writing promos for Comedy Central. Clark’s credits include features and commercials, the latter for such clients as Coca-Cola, Showtime, Sony, Procter & Gamble, Kellogg’s and Hewlett Packard. And Miller had been freelancing at Bent Image Lab, working with company partner/director Chel White on the stop-motion animation OfficeMax spot titled “Santa’s Helper.” Miller has also produced commercials for NBC, Kellogg’s P&G, Hewlett Packard and CBS…..The Syndicate, Santa Monica, has added 3-D artist/compositor Eddie Robison who has extensive credits in episodic TV (JAG, Commander In Chief, Medium, Navy NCIS) and features (Hellboy, Syriana, Bloody Mary, Wrongfully Accused). Partners in The Syndicate, a visual effects and telecine studio specializing in all aspects of final picture delivery, compositing and CGI for spots and music videos, are telecine artist Beau Leon, executive producer Ken Solomon, and director of new business Leslie Sorrentino…. Reel FX, Dallas, has added Discreet Flame artist Laychin Lee, who arrives from VT2 Media Design & Communications in Houston. She began her 13-year career in advertising and made the move into postproduction while living in Malaysia….Southfield, Mich.-based Milagro Post has added visual effects artists Paula Carlson and Alan Simonelli, and editor Chris Bickell. Prior to joining Milagro Post, Carlson worked at GTN; Simonelli also hails from GTN; Bickell was formerly at Pluto Post…..Avid Technology announced that more than 45 postproduction facilities and rental houses–including AlphaDogs, A&A Post, Chainsaw, Editional Effects, FotoKem, Matchframe, Phase Three, Runway, and Wexler Video…have purchased the now shipping Avid Symphony Nitris system….
