Archive for February 12th, 2008

Boston, MA – February 13, 2008 - Eye Scream Factory, the Boston-based creative team providing automation design templates for media hobbyists and professionals, has made available a free Valentine’s Day DVD Menu and packaging design Template. Perfect for Valentine’s Day and other romantic occasions, the Valentine template set includes:

* Main and Chapter DVD menu templates more

Marina Del Rey, CA – (February 12, 2008) – New Deal Studios received a 2008 VES Award from the distinguished Visual Effects Society for their contribution to the Halo 3 “Believe� commercial campaign. The award was announced at the VES Awards Dinner held on February 10, 2008 at the Kodak Grand Ballroom in Hollywood.

New Deal Studios’ Matthew Gratzner, Co-Founder/Visual Effects Supervisor for the company accepted the award, which recognized: more

New York, NY – (February 12, 2008) – To create a powerful PSA for Partnership for a Drug-Free America, VH1 recently turned to the talents of Northern Lights Editor David Gioiella. Featuring renowned doctor and TV personality Dr. Drew Pinsky, “Silent Scream� is a disturbingly elegant message of reaching out to people with substance abuse problems. more

SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—Company 3 has hired Bruce Lomet as a Director of Production, Feature Film Services. Lomet, who arrives from Technicolor Digital Intermediate, will oversee digital intermediate production at Company 3’s Santa Monica facility. His responsibilities will include production management, client relations and scheduling. He will manage the DI department and seek to establish workflow protocols and guidelines to ensure projects proceed with maximum efficiency and creative objectives are met. Lomet has produced digital intermediate post production work for such films as Disturbia, Superman Returns, Letter from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. more

“The Voice of the West� since 1865, the six-time Pulitzer Prize winning San Francisco Chronicle is now the eyes and ears as well, with online video on its SFGate.com Web site further expanding its comprehensive coverage of the Bay Area. Among the top five newspaper Web sites nationally for daily visitors, the Chronicle’s staff photographers capture their SFGate.com online video reports using Canon’s XH A1 HD camcorders, which do double-duty shooting still images for the paper as well. more

Los Angeles, CA, February 12, 2008 – Buster, a conceptual design studio that specializes in motion graphics for the advertising and broadcasting industries, was retained to develop and design the “look and feel� of Discovery Communications’ new “Investigation Discovery� (ID) cable TV network, formerly the Discovery Times Channel. Buster is a division of Stun Creative; Stun Creative co-presidents Mark Feldstein and Brad Roth made the announcement. more

Hollywood, CA, Feb.12, 2008 –ka-chew!, the commercial production company owned by Gabor Csupo and Arlene Klasky, owners of multi Emmy Award winning creative giant Klasky Csupo, Inc., is currently celebrating its 10 successful years with the significant expansion of its directorial roster. more

Cypress, CA – (February 5, 2008) – Christie Roadie 25K DLP® projectors are powering a spectacular display of artistic images upon a 100-foot diameter Ferris wheel on Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copacabana Beach. Known for their high brightness and rugged design, a trio of stacked Roadie projectors deliver a total of 75,000 ANSI lumens to reach the wheel, located more than 154 feet away. The projectors rest on a 39-foot scaffolding tower constructed to resist the area’s high winds, which can reach up to 80 mph. more

Allegorithmic, an emerging 3D technology company developing advanced texturing tools for real-time 3D content creation, today announced it will sponsor a “Substance� session during the 2008 Game Developers® Conference (GDC). This session will demonstrate how Substance, Allegorithmic’s new generation of texturing middleware, is redefining production and distribution pipelines for next-generation game developers. Being shown for the first time at GDC, Substance provides game developers with a professional set of tools for creating high-quality textures that are generated in real-time to optimize data streaming and create changing environments. more

Commercial production company Zero To Sixty (0:2:60) and Guerilla FX, an independent production, design, effects and post finishing house, have signed broadcast marketing representative Jamie Dumaine to represent the two companies, it was announced today by Doug Robbins, 0:2:60 President/Guerilla FX Executive Producer, and Thor Raxlen Guerilla FX Creative Director.

In her new post, Jamie Dumaine will be responsible for securing and facilitating new business and helping to grow both companies. To promote the work of 0:2:60’s versatile directorial roster, including Mark Claywell (storyteller/dialogue/contemporary visuals), Thor Raxlen (storyteller/visual effects), Aggressive, AKA Dan Shapiro and Alex Topaller, (visual effects/compositing), and Scotty Bergstein (comedy/dialogue), and the production, design, effects and post talents of Guerilla FX, she will work closely with a senior team that includes Robbins, 0:2:60 Head of Production Theresa Loquercio and Guerilla FX digital division rep James O’Brien. more