Venables Bell & Partners (VB&P) has hired associate creative directors Paul Foulkes and Tyler Hampton, the latest additions in what amounts to a 15 percent increase in staff for the San Francisco-based indie ad agency. Foulkes and Hampton will manage and lead Intel’s global account and report directly to VB&P’s founder/creative director Paul Venables. The creative duo brings to VB&P 12 years of working together on award-winning campaigns for Electronic Arts, ESPN, Comcast, adidas, Levi’s, Comcast and HP. They first started their partnership at creative shops Odiorne Wilde Narraway & Partners, San Francisco, and Ground Zero, Los Angeles, on brands like Electronic Arts, ESPN and California’s Anti-Smoking campaign. From there, Foulkes and Hampton landed at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, where they worked on HP’s “+ HP” and Comcast’s “Comcastic” campaigns, as well as the California Coastal Commission. After branching out on their own for a year, with Foulkes becoming a creative director on Levi’s at BBH/NY and Hampton working at 180LA to run Sony, they decided to unite at VB&P….GSD&M Idea City in Austin, Tex., has made three key promotions, upping creatives Luke Sullivan and David Crawford to managing group creative directors, and Karen Jacobs to VP/director of broadcast production….DJ Hauck has returned to Los Angeles motion capture studio Vicon House of Moves as technical supervisor. Hauck has had a long career in motion capture that includes pipeline development solutions for such features as Beowulf, Monster House and The Polar Express. Hauck re-joins Vicon House of Moves from Digital Concepts Group, where as co-founder he developed DCG Face, a toolset for cleaning and re-targeting facial motion capture. Prior to co-founding DCG, Hauck worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he served as senior technical animator and motion capture technology lead. Hauck began his career in motion capture in 1999, starting out as a motion editor at House of Moves in the years before the facility was purchased by Vicon. He was promoted to technical supervisor in 2000 with oversight of delivery of all motion capture files, a position he returns to today in its much expanded capacity….
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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