Org's cause is effects: F/x pros conjuring trade group to promote industry. (Visual Effects Society for special-effects artists)

HOLLYWOOD Actors,screenwriters and directors all have their unions. Cinematographers and producers, too, have trade orgs. Now, one of Hollywood's fastest-growing occupations is getting its own fraternal order.

A group of effects artists, execs, producers and others have formed the Visual Effects Society. According to the trade org's fact sheet, it's "a nonprofit association dedicated to the advancement and promotion of the art and science of visual effects."

Independent advertising and marketing consultant Tom Atkin has been named VES' executive director. Atkin recently completed four years of designing and implementing advertising and marketing campaigns …