NEW YORK CITY - Creative collective Preymaker (https://preymaker.com), which is headquartered in New York City, with studios in Los Angeles and Cape Town, South Africa, recently welcomed Theuns Van Rensburg and Robert Bruce to the company’s creative team. Both are highly respected creative leaders and visual effects artists whose credits span commercials and feature films.
Photo (L-R): Bruce and Van Rensburg
Van Rensburg was recently 2D lead on Pepsi's 2026 Super Bowl spot The Choice. The fully-CG spot features polar bears and won a Gold Andy Award. He joins Preymaker from Framestore, where he was VFX and compositing supervisor, working on campaigns for Nissan, Coors, Snapdragon, Booking.com, Cadburys, Coca-Cola and Audi. He also supervised teams, liaised with clients, budgeted jobs and improved workflows. Some of his previous posts include working independently in Europe as a VFX supervisor and Flame artist, and as an editor at UEFA/European Football Associations. He was also on staff at Black Ginger, Cape Town, as lead online editor and Flame artist.
Bruce most recently helped launch UK creative studio Coffee & TV in the US. Prior to that, he was one of Blacksmith’s first hires in the 2D department, helping the studio establish their brand while working on campaigns for Zillow, YouTube, Apple and Macy’s. He also headed 2D for the New York office of Mr. X, working on high profile feature films with directors such as Darren Aronofsky, Ang Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Doug Liman, Ben Stiller and Adam McKay. And he began his career at The Mill.