Exclusive: Tenet and Dune VFX firm Dneg has promoted Tom Jacomb to President, Dneg Animation.
Previously serving as Managing Director, Jacomb helped launch the Feature Animation division at Dneg in 2014. Based in London, he has guided the growth of the team to more than 500 employees across Dneg’s animation studios in London, Los Angeles, Montréal and Mumbai.
In his new role as President, Jacomb will oversee further worldwide investment and expansion of Dneg Animation, including expansion into Vancouver and the creation of up to 100 new animation roles in the city.
Jacomb’s promotion to President is effective concurrently with the appointment of five new members of Dneg Animation’s team and the studio’s expanding slate of new feature film and episodic animation productions.
The five hires comprise: Freddy Chaleur (Sherlock Gnomes) and Yancy Lindquist (The Boss Baby) joining Dneg Animation’s team of VFX Supervisors, which includes Philippe Denis,...
Previously serving as Managing Director, Jacomb helped launch the Feature Animation division at Dneg in 2014. Based in London, he has guided the growth of the team to more than 500 employees across Dneg’s animation studios in London, Los Angeles, Montréal and Mumbai.
In his new role as President, Jacomb will oversee further worldwide investment and expansion of Dneg Animation, including expansion into Vancouver and the creation of up to 100 new animation roles in the city.
Jacomb’s promotion to President is effective concurrently with the appointment of five new members of Dneg Animation’s team and the studio’s expanding slate of new feature film and episodic animation productions.
The five hires comprise: Freddy Chaleur (Sherlock Gnomes) and Yancy Lindquist (The Boss Baby) joining Dneg Animation’s team of VFX Supervisors, which includes Philippe Denis,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Author William Joyce is set to direct an animated version of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby.” Brian Selznick, who wrote and adapted 2017’s “Wonderstruck,” will work on the screenplay.
Michael Siegel and Dneg Senior VP Creative Production David Prescott join Joyce as producers on the animated feature film. Dneg Feature Animation will provide animation services.
This marks the first time the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald will be turned into an animated feature. Its most recent adaptation was for Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.
Joyce said, “Gatsby continues to cast a powerful spell over readers unlike any other book in American letters. Much of the power of Gatsby comes from the enchantment of Fitzgerald’s prose. He created a vivid dreamscape that, to some degree, has eluded filmmakers since the silent era. The previous film versions were constrained by live-action, but...
Michael Siegel and Dneg Senior VP Creative Production David Prescott join Joyce as producers on the animated feature film. Dneg Feature Animation will provide animation services.
This marks the first time the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald will be turned into an animated feature. Its most recent adaptation was for Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.
Joyce said, “Gatsby continues to cast a powerful spell over readers unlike any other book in American letters. Much of the power of Gatsby comes from the enchantment of Fitzgerald’s prose. He created a vivid dreamscape that, to some degree, has eluded filmmakers since the silent era. The previous film versions were constrained by live-action, but...
- 2/23/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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