Media firm Trendy Magic, based by Oscar winner Rodney Rothman and former MGM Co-President of Manufacturing Adam Rosenberg, has employed Belinda Blacklock as VP of Animation. The announcement follows the corporate’s latest first-look animated broadcast cope with Fox and a first-look live-action characteristic cope with Sony Photos. In her new function, Blacklock will find, develop, and produce animated film and tv initiatives.
“I used to be launched to Belinda years in the past by Angela Petrella and instantly acknowledged an animation soul mate,” mentioned Rothman. “She’s not simply dedicated to animation as a medium with huge untapped artistic and industrial potential; she additionally possesses the talents, expertise, and imaginative and prescient to construct it at scale with out ready for permission. She’s scrappy, daring, sensible, has labored on a few of my favourite latest stuff, and is dang likable in addition. We’re pleased she’s serving to information the best way from right here. In the event you’re enthusiastic about the place we’re going and becoming a member of up, it’s an ideal time to succeed in out – we’ll want your assist too.”
Blacklock started her profession as an animation producer on the award-winning Ardour Animation Studios in London. In 2009 she moved to the U.S. to arrange Ardour’s New York studio, which she helmed for seven years. In 2016 she moved to Los Angeles to affix the VFX studio Electrical Theatre Collective, the place she established and ran their sister firm, Pals Electrical.
Throughout her profession, Blacklock has labored on a number of characteristic documentaries, corresponding to Black Solar and Within the Shadow of the Moon. As well as, she has produced a number of movies for Paul McCartney and The Beatles and acquired a number of awards, together with the Gold Lion, D&AD, and Clio. As well as, she was a part of the workforce nominated for a Inventive Arts Emmy Award for Excellent Interactive Program for the Sport of Thrones 360 Principal Title.
Since its founding in 2021, Trendy Magic has established a various slate of initiatives, in each film and tv with artists and studio companions, together with Columbia Photos; Fox; Sony Photos Animation; Illumination; Interscope; Warner Brothers; Skydance; Picturestart; FX; Sony Photos Tv; and twentieth Tv.
Trendy Magic is represented by UTA.
Supply: Trendy Magic
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
