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Denise Minter

Vice president of production at Pacific Data Images, oversees all of the global production efforts for PDI's award-winning feature animation, and commercial and feature effects divisions.

Most recently, Minter served as senior producer for PDI's commercial division where she produced a series of spots for the recent launch of Sega's Dreamcast, as well as a spot for Coca-Cola titled, "New Worlds." Prior to her work in commercials, Minter worked as a production manager on PDI and DreamWorks' hit film "ANTZ," which grossed more than $175 million worldwide. During this three-year project, Denise supervised many departments, including layout, motion, lighting, effects and production engineering.

Minter joined PDI as a producer in 1993, and has produced notable commercial projects for clients including Kraft, Mazda and Meow Mix. She also produced the Emmy award-nominated Homer3 for "The Simpsons" 1995 Halloween Special.

After pursuing graduate studies in communications and computer graphics at New York Institute of Technology, Minter began her career as a Paintbox/Harry Artist with the New York post-production facility VCA Teletronics. From there, she took her talents to NBC where she worked for NBC Sports live broadcasts. While at NBC, Minter also worked as a freelancer for Saturday Night Live. She returned to VCA Teletronics as an executive producer of computer graphics where her clients included J. Walter Thompson, Sony Music, MTV and ESPN.