9 Story Media Group introduced Tuesday that Angela C. Santomero is exiting as Chief Inventive Officer after 5 years with the corporate. Because the creator and govt producer of the Emmy-winning preschool collection Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Blue’s Clues & You!, she’s going to proceed to work with 9 Story and its animation studio Brown Bag Movies, and has been retained in an ongoing consulting capability.
Santomero joined 9 Story in 2018, following the corporate’s acquisition of Out of the Blue Enterprises, the youngsters’s media firm she co-founded in 2005. “I’m grateful to 9 Story Media Group for buying Out of the Blue and for the chance to create and develop IP with children on the heart,” mentioned Santomero. “I can’t await the most recent collection that I created to premiere subsequent 12 months!”
Wendy Harris will lead the Inventive Affairs group throughout all places transferring ahead as SVP/Head of Inventive Affairs and report back to President & CEO Vince Commisso. Harris is a seasoned govt behind many franchise collection, together with Blue’s Clues, and has served as Co-Creator and Government Producer on a number of collection.
The VPs of Improvement in New York, Toronto and Dublin will proceed to report back to Harris, as will the senior administration group throughout manufacturing, analysis and interactive in New York.
In response to accelerated international progress over the previous two years for flagship model Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir and Ghostforce, which has been incomes high rankings throughout Europe, ZAG has appointed Mark Kingston to the newly-created position of Senior Vice President, World Shopper Merchandise. The announcement was made at present by Founder & CEO Jeremy Zag.
Kingston will report back to Julian Jacob Zag, EVP, World Operations and Head of Shopper Merchandise, underneath whose management ZAG’s shopper merchandise enterprise has grown exponentially. New places of work have been established around the globe in Paris, Frankfurt, London, Montreal, Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico Metropolis, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Dubai and Shenzhen, collectively delivering over US$1 billion in retail gross sales (as of December 2021) for Miraculous.
Kingston, based mostly in London, will spearhead the continued progress of ZAG’s shopper merchandise enterprise that features L&M, promotions, gaming and LBE for all IPs, together with the animated characteristic Melody, starring Katy Perry (in manufacturing). He joins ZAG following an 11-year, the place he served most lately as SVP, Worldwide Shopper Merchandise, overseeing group members throughout a number of disciplines and in 18 international locations. Prior, he held senior business and retail gross sales and advertising roles at each The Walt Disney Firm and BBC Worldwide.
Sow You Leisure, a lately sprouted new arrival on the Irish animation scene, has employed on the artistic group of Amy Stephenson and Shane Langan as growth producers. That is in response to the expansion of the corporate’s growth slate throughout a variety of genres, with lively discussions already ongoing concerning manufacturing financing with potential broadcast companions for its preliminary choices.
Stephenson and Langan have been writing collectively since they co-founded the comedy group Food plan of Worms in 2006, creating sketch reveals, performs, internet collection and a BBC sitcom. Since 2015, they’ve labored in animation, writing, head-writing and story creating reveals for Amazon, Nickelodeon, BBC and Warner Bros. Discovery amongst many others. In 2019, they gained Finest Preschool Author on the Irish Animation Awards.
Based mostly in Dublin, the duo will report back to co-founder Lena Byrne. In mild of the rising growth slate, the corporate has taken extra workplace house within the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin. Moreover, firm has simply secured funding from Display screen Eire to gas its potential.
U.Ok. animation indie A+C Studios has launched its administrators’ roster with eight signings of award-winning and rising expertise from across the globe. Based in 2007, A+C has grown from its launch in founder Dan Richards’ storage to a custom-fitted house that holds three animation manufacturing studios, a model-making workshop, a movement design studio, an edit suite and a manufacturing workplace. You may learn extra concerning the administrators right here.
- Mai Vu (Say Hello to Pencil, Spring Roll Dream)
- Ida Melum (Poles Aside, Night time of the Residing Dread)
- Vida Vega (BAA, Kinsale & London Worldwide Award winner, Cannes Lions nominee)
- Jess Deacon (Revolution)
- Antonin Niclass (Do Not Feed the Pigeons)
- Luiz Stockler (RTS, Adobe Design and Vimeo Employees Decide acknowledged work)
- Zarina Tucker (Esquire, Naturya, Pleased Socks stop-motion)
- Lina Kalcheva (Different Half)
Extra Strikes:
- Moonraker VFX provides Lucas Pozzey (Lion King 2019, Prometheus, Mission: Not possible – Ghost Protocol) to management group as Head of 3D.
- Generative AI leisure expertise firm Flawless introduced the appointment of business vet Peter Busch as Chief Strategic Officer. Busch has labored for Warner Bros. Animation, Paramount, Picture Metrics and co-founded Faceware Applied sciences.
- Rising Solar Footage (RSP) welcomes FX artist Thomas James (Avengers: Infinity Wars, Information of the World) to Adelaide from London as the most recent member of its coaching workers.
