Archive for December 7th, 2009

Woodland Hills, CA, December 8, 2009 – Renowned music library company Songs To Your Eyes, Ltd., has placed a cue from its brand new “Caliente Music� catalogue music in the trailer promoting a high profile, upcoming feature film. Company founder Opher Yisraeli made the announcement.

Songs To Your Eyes placed music from the company’s Latin Music catalogue, “Caliente Music,â€? in another big film trailer, this time for the upcoming comedy “Our Family Wedding,” staring America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, and Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker. Described as a “clash-of-culturesâ€? comedy, the storyline from “Our Family Weddingâ€? centers on two overbearing fathers (Whitaker and Mencia) who must put aside their differences to plan the wedding of their son and daughter (Ferrera) in less than two weeks. The film is from Fox Searchlight Pictures. more

(Urbana, IL) – With disgruntled viewers at home and in Congress, the pressure is rising for broadcasters to resolve inconsistent audio loudness and meet ATSC A/85 standards. Step one of the solution is clear: stations need accurate, intelligent measurement of loudness levels. more

Barnthouse to Pursue West Coast and Midwest Commercial Projects for VFX Boutique

Brickyard VFX in Santa Monica, Calif, recently brought Sara Barnthouse on board as West Coast and Midwest commercial sales representative. Barnthouse was formerly an in-house sales rep for Jigsaw Editorial.

Said Barnthouse, “Brickyard is a very unique independent boutique visual effects shop that is differentiated not only by the quality of the work they’ve produced over the past seven years, but also the caliber of their in house talent. I look forward to working with the Brickyard VFX team, and to helping the company extend the range of their commercial CG and VFX efforts.� more

— Waves’ bundles allow remote recording specialists Music Mix Mobile to take live recordings straight into post-production —

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, December 4, 2009 — The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th Anniversary Concert brought together some of the most legendary names in music, including Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, Dion, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Smokey Robinson, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Ozzy Osbourne and U2. The concerts took place over two nights, October 29th and 30th, 2009, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and on November 30th were broadcast on HBO. Creating a consistent sonic context for such a wide range of performers was the challenge faced by Music Mix Mobile, a New Jersey/California-based remote facilities company combining the talents of award-winning production professionals and state-of-the-art audio solutions. more

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“City Rain�—Award Winning XNA Game Studio Concept—Now Available on Xbox Live ‘Indie Games’

Montréal, Québec – December 7th, 2009—Ovolo Corporation, Inc., a newly formed interactive game publishing company that brings ‘games-with-purpose’ to market, today announced the availability of “City Rain� for the new Xbox Live Marketplace ‘Indie Games’ site. Created as an initial student concept project, City Rain is a puzzle and simulation game based on urban planning and sustainability. Players must rescue cities that are being ‘black listed’ from the World Environment Protection Agency (WEPA) by quickly making decisions to establish and re-organize urban developments that will make cities more sustainable and ‘green’. City Rain is available now as a free trial at Microsoft Indie Games, and the full version for 400 Microsoft points. more

New HQView range addresses modern multi-image display needs without compromise

Bradford, UK, 7 December 2009 – Combining the power of Reon™ video processing from IDT with state-of-the-art HQV™ algorithims and expertly designed hardware and firmware from Calibre, the new HQView range of video scaler-switchers offers stunning image quality and a high degree of flexibility for corporate AV, professional and broadcast applications. more

Imagineer Closes 2009 with Huge Savings for Customers on its Entire Family of VFX Tools; Welcomes 2010 with Major New Product Releases

GUILDFORD, UK (December 7, 2009) — Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com) today announced it is closing out a highly successful 2009 with its Third Annual Holiday Extravaganza sale. Beginning today and ending on December 31, 2009, the VFX and post production community can take advantage of huge savings across Imagineer Systems entire family of VFX tools, including monet, mokey, motor and the entire mocha family. more

In a major addition to their core business, NY-based VFX and color grading studio Nice Shoes will add a high-end design division by merging with sister design and animation company Freestyle Collective (FSC). The move greatly enhances Nice Shoes’ existing offerings, which include high-end visual effects, 2D and 3D animation, and world-class color grading. The FSC brand name will cease to exist even as the studio continues to operate under the Nice Shoes brand. This move, which completes a 12-month integration cycle, follows Nice Shoes’ calculated consolidation of sister VFX company Guava. more

Playful and Irreverent Eight-Spot Effort via Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners Directed, Designed, Animated, Edited and Finished Entirely by Stardust

Bi-coastal creative production studio Stardust has put its unique and quirky spin on the holidays in a TV campaign for RadioShack via ad agency Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners (BSSP). Stardust’s Los Angeles studio leveraged its multidisciplinary chops, handling everything from the live-action shoot with Stardust’s Brad Tucker as director, to designing, animating, editing and finishing eight spots, which feature a cornucopia of filmmaking techniques, animation styles and even rapper Biz Markie. To view the campaign: http://stardust.wiredrive.com/l/p/?presentation=5f6b297cc9e14612542fbce956b29f80. more

JSM CD/EP Joel Simon led a team of composers in the creation of lively soundtracks complementing the action in four new spots promoting the Lincoln MKS luxury vehicle. The series of :15s, created in specifically for UniWorld, showcase JSM’s ability to enliven even the most limited action sequences with an original score.
Drive stars a smiling woman piloting her MKS through rolling, verdant terrain. A funky, upbeat track accompanies the action as the driver accelerates using the car’s environmentally friendly yet powerful EcoBoost technology.
Go also promotes EcoBoost, as a determined man uses the system to accelerate from the gloom of a rainstorm to the sunshine of open countryside. The music perfectly complements the transition from dark to light, shifting from a slightly menacing beat to a lilting, whimsical tune by the final sun-soaked beach scene. more