Archive for November 12th, 2008

Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 13, 2008 – Whodoo EFX has completed the cinematics for Electronic Arts’ upcoming new game release “Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.� Whodoo Visual Effects Supervisor Helena Packer Burnson made the announcement.

Working with EA’s Cinematic Director Richard Taylor on the new game, Whodoo helped design and create a 3D time travel sequence, replete with a Soviet-era underground laboratory and time travel machine. Whodoo’s talented team of visual effects artists also animated a wild electrical storm, and teleported the game’s “Soviet Generalsâ€? back to pre-WWII Vienna. more

Not that long ago, animators sketched their creations on paper and then ran to the copy machine to scale things up or down. Fixes, revisions, or creating alternate versions were time-consuming chores. Big mistakes meant starting over completely.

“But it seems like a lifetime ago,� says Antonio Gonella, Director of Production Technology at Cartoon Network Studios. Ever since he introduced Wacom’s Cintiq interactive pen displays to the studio’s animators, productivity and employee satisfaction have risen significantly. New storyboard versions can be created on the fly, experimentation is painless, and animators love being able to draw directly on the Cintiq’s screen. more

South American Powerhouse Relies Upon Powerful Color Grading Tools and State-of-the-Art Workflow

November 12, 2008 (Stockholm, Sweden) Digital Vision, the premier supplier of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, announced today that TV Globo, headquartered in Brazil, has purchased a Nucoda HD color grading system with DVO Enhance image processing options. The Nucoda HD system will become an integral part of the tapeless workflow being put into place as the South American broadcaster continues its migration to high definition production and transmission. more

LOS ANGELES, November 12, 2008 — No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos will be honored with a special screening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Leo S. Bing Theater on Friday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m. The film is also screening at the Starz–Denver Film Festival November 14 and 15, the Camerimage International Festival of Cinematography November 29– December 3, the Santa Fe Film Festival December 3–7 and the Palm Springs International Film Festival January 6–19. more

Tokyo, November 11, 2008 — Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (TSE/OSE: 6810) today announced that from December it would launch the world’s first iVDR for commercial broadcasting, iVDR Xtreme, which features significantly higher shock resistance, and a compatible adapter. The Maxell booth at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition, InterBEE2008 (November 19 to 21, Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan), will display those products. more

STEPHEN ARNOLD MUSIC NAMED NEWS MUSIC PROVIDER FOR NEXSTAR BROADCASTING GROUP

Top 20 TV Broadcasting Company Selects SAM’s ‘Commanding Sonic Branding’ for Deal Covering Initial 20+ Stations

DALLAS – November 12, 2008: Stephen Arnold Music (www.stephenarnoldmusic.com) (SAM), the trendsetters in music composition and developers of Commanding Sonic Branding, have announced a deal to provide a wide range of music services to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group (NASDAQ: NXST). The agreement calls for SAM to provide each station with news music from SAM’s award-winning news music catalogue and to produce a series of custom image songs for the stations in the Nexstar group. more

Wohler at GV Expo 2008
Booth 763

Company Background:

Since its inception in 1987, Wohler Technologies’ video products division, PANORAMAdtv, continues to be a world leader in providing in-rack audio and video monitoring solutions for the broadcast, motion picture, and professional audio/visual markets. The San Francisco Bay Area-based company offers a comprehensive range of products that simplify analog and digital source monitoring in facilities of all sizes and complexity. More information is available at www.wohler.com. more

VFX Supervision, CG and Design Work on Three-Spot TV Campaign Directed by Smuggler’s Stylewar for Publicis in the West

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX contributed VFX supervision, CG and graphic design work on a three-spot TV campaign for T-Mobile via ad agency Publicis in the West. Directed by Stylewar for production company Smuggler, “Questions,� “Shark� and “Hot Dog� promote the new T-Mobile G1 phone with Google, which gives people the power of information, right at their fingertips. The campaign broke Oct. 31st. more

LOS ANGELES, CA (November 5, 2008) – Panasonic introduced the solid-state AG-HPG20 P2 Portable recorder/player with AVC-Intra recording capabilities here at the DV Expo conference. Supporting the 10-bit AVC-Intra codec as well as formats ranging from DVCPRO HD to DV, the P2 Portable will serve as a master quality deck for fast, file-based recording — bridging content to and from older tape based systems and HD-SDI infrastructures. more

LOS ANGELES, CA (November 7, 2008) – At the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) Awards gala yesterday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Panasonic received the Hollywood Post Alliance Engineering Excellence Award for its development of the AVC-Intra 100 video codec. more