Nic Seresin, an award-winning Flame artist and VFX supervisor, has returned to Smoke & Mirrors, his professional home for many years before leaving to go freelance in 2010. Seresin has worked with a long list of top-shelf directors, including Michel Gondry, Tim Burton, Jonathan Glazer, Frank Budgen, Rupert Sanders, Stacy Wall, Tony Kaye, Spike Lee, Traktor, and Ulf Johansson. Seresin has also worked on several features, including 12 Monkeys, Sweeney Todd, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough…. Entertainment creative agency mOcean has added Brumby Boylston as group creative director, entertainment marketing, and David Kleinman as managing director of entertainment marketing. Kleinman arrives at mOcean following a six-year tenure as executive producer at Blind Visual Propaganda. Prior to Blind, he served as R&D Unit Manager at Lightstorm Entertainment, collaborating with filmmaker James Cameron and VFX supervisor Rob Legato to develop technologies and new workflow methodologies for the 2009 feature film “Avatar.” He entered the entertainment industry working on the live-action side as executive producer/head of production at Crash Films. Boylston was previously co-founder/creative director at National Television, a bicoastal production company specializing in design, animation, and live-action for brands and network clients, including American Express, ABC, Volvo, ING, ESPNU, SyFy and Disney. Prior to launching National Television, he was a writer/creator at The Walt Disney Company….
FCB Stays Atop The One Club’s Year-End Global Creative Rankings
FCB ended the year repeating its top positions in The One Club for Creativity’s Global Creative Rankings, with FCB New York again crowned Global Agency of the Year and FCB Global finishing as Agency Network of the Year for 2024.
The annual worldwide benchmark report is a comprehensive ranking of agencies, brands, countries, and individuals based on points earned from winning entries in The One Club’s eight global, regional, and local awards shows: The One Show 2024, ADC 103rd Annual Awards, Type Directors Club TDC70 competition, Art Directors Club of Europe ADCE Awards 2024, ONE Asia Creative Awards 2024, and The One Club Denver, San Diego, and Miami chapter 2024 awards programs.
“The Global Creative Rankings is the industry’s most comprehensive and transparent ranking,” said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club. “There are no secret weightings in calculating the rankings, and unlike others, it’s not hidden behind a paywall. As the industry’s foremost nonprofit organization for the global creative community, The One Club is in a unique position to provide this free, definitive measure for global creative excellence to everyone in the industry.”
Highlights of the Global Creative Rankings 2024 are below.
Global Agency Rankings
FCB New York
Rethink Toronto
McCann New York
TBWAMedia Arts Lab Los Angeles
Serviceplan Germany Munich
Dentsu Inc. Tokyo
FCB Chicago
Marcel Paris
VML New York
Ogilvy PR New York, Publicis Conseil Paris (tie)
Independent Agency Rankings
Rethink Toronto
Serviceplan Germany Munich
Wieden+Kennedy Portland
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