Yeti Farm Creative Appoints New Chief Creative Officer

Yeti Farm Creative has restructured its management team, with partner Jay Surridge becoming chief creative officer.

Additionally, Stephanie Marcott, formerly of Method Studios, Framestore and DNEG, has been tapped as international recruiter to manage talent acquisition.

Yeti Farm Creative is known for its proprietary 2D Sweet Tweets series along with its production of 2D animation hits Hotel Transylvania and Pete the Cat. The company recently moved its operations to a state-of-the-art facility equipped with the latest technology to better support its growing production needs.

The studio also recently entered into two development agreements with executive producer Irene Weibel (Moon and Me, Bravest Warriors) for two CG projects: one from Michael Bruza (Outlandish, SciGirls) and the other with The Mother Company (Ruby’s Studio).

“Jay has done such a great job with the creative and production teams at Yeti and I know he will flourish in this broadened role,” said Ashley Ramsay, founder and CEO of Yeti Farm Creative. “Our new studio space in downtown Kelowna is the perfect place to house our permanent group of story and development artists and I’m excited to announce more about our originals in the coming months.”

“We have built a great core group of artists and producers over the past few years on shows like Pete the Cat with creator Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh, our own Sweet Tweet and the upcoming Summer Memories,” said Surridge. “The last couple years, Yeti found ways to naturally evolve to the industry’s new hybrid production world, allowing us to collaborate more efficiently as a studio in all departments and take a larger role in productions at all levels. We’ve had a creative booster shot. I look forward to working with Stephanie to further build the artist team for these and other exciting new shows, including a 3D series that Irene brought to us, which we are developing with Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Studios, as well as the comedy series Alpha Betas, starring top YouTube creators, among other projects.”