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Platige Sets Up Shop in SoCal

The VFX and animation studio settles into its new Manhattan Beach digs, offering small shop creative/budgetary advantages with the underlying muscle of extensive European roots; The Mill alumni Aurelien Simon and Gawain Liddiard will head new office.

People Headline News

Digital Domain Names Kevin Lau Executive Creative Director of Advertising, Games and New Media.

New hire will oversee all studio’s short-form projects; brings over 18 years of ad-based VFX and commercial production experience to the role.

People Headline News

Promotions, New Hire Bolster Nelvana’s Senior Management Team

Masterson rejoins as VP sales, consumer products and international, while promotions up Yan to head of brands, Ferguson to senior international sales manager and Brinder to senior content distribution manager, domestic and digital.

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Genius Brands Promotes Two Executives

Deb Pierson, credited with the rapid growth of the video-on-demand Kid Genius Cartoon Channel into nearly 50 million U.S. households, has been upped to SVP, global content distribution and marketing & president of Kid Genius Cartoon Channel, while 25-year licensing, merchandising and business development veteran Lloyd Mintz was promoted to SVP, head of worldwide consumer products.