Visual effects shop Digital Domain has hired Cliff Plumer as CEO, and has promoted Kevin Weston to chief financial officer. Former CEO Mark Miller will remain with the company as president. Digital Domain says the appointments reflect a focus on its core business’visual effects for feature films and commercial productions’and strategic development of its efforts in games and animation.
Plumer will be responsible for Digital Domain’s overall strategy and all aspects of its business. He joined the company in 2006 as chief technology officer following a ten-year tenure with ILM and Lucasfilm Ltd. He has more than twenty years of experience in digital entertainment and media technology..
Now charged with overseeing finance and accounting, Weston joined Digital Domain in 2008 as general manager of the games division. The former LucasArts VP has also served as CFO and senior VP at Eidos Interactive Inc., U.S., held senior roles in KPMG’s London Entertainment practice, and has consulted for leading games and entertainment companies. In addition to handling his CFO dutioes, Weston will work with Plumer to develop the company’s long-term expansion into the games market.
As President, Miller is driving the company’s feature film visual effects business. Ed Ulbrich, president of the commercials division and exec VP of production, continues to oversee Digital Domain’s advertising business and exec produce key feature film projects.
Blockbuster director Michael Bay, co-chair of Digital Domain’s board of directors, comments, ‘Digital Domain has always delivered impressive work, but with Cliff and Mark at the helm, our company is certain to grow as a frontrunner among the best in the visual effects industry. Our goal is not only to produce cutting-edge effects, but to create an atmosphere where the best and the brightest come to develop their talents, design innovative techniques and craft ground-breaking effects for every one of our entertainment and advertising projects.’
Academy Award-winning Digital Domain was founded in 1993 and has worked on more than 60 feature films, including such high-profile productions as Titanic, The Day After Tomorrow and director David Fincher’s upcoming Brad Pittt vehicle, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In additon to Fincher and Bay, the studio has also worked with such leading filmmakers as Clint Eastwood, Rob Cohen, Joseph Kosinski, Mark Romanek and the Wachowski brothers. More information on the Venice, Calif.-based company can be found at www.digitaldomain.com.
