Camp Lucky–a shop which spans live-action production, editorial, design, animation, VFX, color and audio–has connected with Daria Zeliger Reps for exclusive representation on the East Coast….
Sugarhi, the production company founded by director Jake Banks and cinematographer Florian Stadler, has secured indie representation firm Free Agents to handle sales on the East Coast…..
Conductor Technologies, a multi-cloud rendering platform that supports assorted applications, has hired visual effects and animation industry veteran Julie McDonald as head of business development. McDonald comes to Conductor with an extensive background in production, having guided teams using cloud-based compute resources to create feature films and episodic series, and led business development for cloud-based animation platform Nimble Collective. Drawing on her experience in her new role, McDonald will help studios and artists gain pop-up render capacity quickly and easily. Prior to joining Conductor, McDonald served as a VFX executive at Netflix, overseeing work for multiple projects simultaneously. In 2020, she held concurrent VFX producer and managing director roles at Zero VFX, where she was a cloud transition leader on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. At Cinesite, she was VFX producer on Murder Mystery and for season two of Lost in Space, both Netflix projects. For cloud-based animation provider Nimble Collective, which was acquired by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2019, McDonald helped manage the engineering team to ensure animation platform capabilities matched customer needs, then transitioned to director of business development and onboarded the company’s first commercial platform users. Her lengthy career in entertainment includes a near-decade long stint at Pixar Animation Studios, starting as editorial and film out department supervisor for Toy Story before shifting to postproduction supervision for Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo and the Academy Award-winning short film Geri’s Game. She also supervised final editorial for Shrek 2 at DreamWorks Animation and led Viz Media’s anime streaming and on-demand production business unit for several years….
