Mike Moon, director of adult animation at Netflix, will leave the company at the end of the month to pursue other opportunities.
Moon joined Netflix about five years ago and led and built the company’s adult animation team. Her tenure included animation projects. inside job by Shion Takeuchi of Human Resources by Brutus Rosa, midnight gospel By Pen Ward and Duncan Trussel and upcoming titles including intergalactic From Kenya Barris and Kid Cudi, agent king by Priscilla Presley and John Eddy and Dau exploding kittens By Mike Judge and Greg Daniels.
While at Netflix, Moon led overall deals with Brutus Pink, the creative team. big mouthShion Takeuchi, with animator Alex Hirsch and production studio Titmouse. He also recruited and helped build Netflix’s animation production facility, Vine Studios.
Prior to joining Netflix, Moon worked at Sony Pictures Animation, Disney Television Animation and Cartoon Network.
trip to the moon I follow the news that Todd Yellin, the company’s longtime vice president of products, is leaving in September.
The departures are the latest as the streaming giant tries to replace two-quarters of lost subscribers, 200,000 in Q1 and 970,000 in Q2. In recent months, the company done series of layoffs and said it would “roll back” growth in content spending to about $17 billion annually.
However, Netflix has projected subscriber growth for the next quarter and has also increased its focus on animation after acquire australian animation and visual effects studio Animal Logic in July.
Deadline first reported Moon’s departure.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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