Archive for January 11th, 2011

jumP has yet again bolstered its already solid team with the hiring of renowned Editor Richard Mettler. His portfolio includes projects for Infiniti, Estée Lauder, Nintendo and Christian Lacroix to name a few. Mettler has worked with top U.S. and International production companies, including collaborations with directors Laurent Chanez, Sean Ellis, Arni & Kinski, Joe Wright, Pierluca De Carlo and Anthony Atanasio. Major agency collaborations include TBWA\Chiat\Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Leo Burnett, Ogilvy and McCann.

“jumP has a solid reputation and an outstanding group of talent,” noted Mettler. “This editorial boutique has the aesthetic, philosophy and creativity that I was looking to associate myself with.”

“Richard’s unique talent and aesthetic speak for itself,” stated jumP MD Dee Tagert. “With his deep client list and vast experience, he is a natural fit for us. I am thrilled to have him join our team.”

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Why wait all year to shift through the four seasons when Absolute NY can lead you through them in fewer than thirty seconds? The studio’s techno-magicians return to do just that in a spot for Swedish energy giant Vattenfall via Lowe Brindfors, Stockholm.

Frost follows a man steadily walking across a pastoral landscape as the seasons meld from bright green summer to leaf-falling, multicolored autumn to snowy winter. As he walks, his wardrobe changes, from light jacket to heavy coat to parka-like hood. The spot ends with a shot of Absolute-generated snowflakes falling across the landscape and sticking in his beard, hair and jacket.

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Client: Vattenfall
Spot Title: Frost
Air Date: December 2010

Agency: Lowe Brindfors, Stockholm
AD: Lotta Åkerlund
Copywriter: Henrik Haeger
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Urbana, IL (January 6, 2010) – Cobalt Digital, Inc. (www.cobaltdigital.com ) has added Stuart Brenner, an experienced broadcast professional, to its sales team. Chris Shaw, VP of sales, announced Brenner’s appointment as western regional sales manager from headquarters in Urbana, IL on January 1st, 2011.

“Stuart joins us at a very busy time when our products are providing the perfect answers to the industry’s latest signal processing needs,� said Shaw. “His extensive experience working with all market segments will not only benefit Cobalt, but will add new dimension to the flexibility that our solutions furnish.�

In his new position, Brenner is responsible for managing Cobalt’s sales operations in the western USA, including the maintenance and growth of Cobalt’s distribution channel, developing relationships with systems integrators and end-users, and strengthening ties with existing customers. Reporting to more

Serbian Broadcaster Uses Omneon Media Server, Storage, and Processing Systems to Establish Region’s First End-to-End Workflow for HD Ingest, Production, and Playout more

Oslo, Norway – T-VIPS, a global leader in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, today announces that its TVG420 ASI to IP gateway has been chosen by RTV Slovenia to distribute Digital Terrestrial programming from the RTV media centre to 13 transmitter sites throughout Slovenia. The choice of the TVG420 enables RTV to deploy ASI in the studio and for final transmission, while taking advantage of cost-effective and flexible IP networks for transport to the transmitters. The Digital Switchover (DSO) project will go live in 2011.

“When we were designing the architecture for Slovenia’s Digital Switchover project we knew that we wanted to utilize the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of IP; the T-VIPS solution is ideal as it enables us to do this, while using ASI in other parts of the network,� says Bojan Ramšak, technical expert, RTV Slovenia. “A unique feature of the solution is that it has redundancy more

“Teddy’s Night,â€? the follow-up to the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed “Teddy’s Day,â€? has been released by Auryn and available here: http://tinyurl.com/2fndly4. A hybrid experience that is part book, part interactive animation and includes age appropriate games, the Teddy releases are part of a new breed of storytelling experience eponymously dubbed an “Aurynâ€? by the producer.

The “Teddy’s Night� Auryn is an enchanting story about a little girl’s curiosity regarding what her beloved teddy does when she goes to sleep. Created with proprietary animation technology by a team of feature film animation veterans, both “Teddy’s Day� and “Teddy’s Night� Auryns offer a world of wonder and imagination, where characters come to animated life and respond to playful taps and tickles. Special features for “Teddy’s Night� include: Interactive animation on every page, a customizable wall drawing, a block stacking game, a memory matching game, and more.

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Imagine stepping onto a green screen set where you can see the middle of a virtual set that can be moved, manipulated, lit and filmed. This is the world of virtual production at Universal Virtual Stage 1 (UVS1) created in collaboration with Zoic Studios for a fully integrated virtual production pipeline that takes projects from pre-production through post.

Universal Studios officially opened UVS1 in December for both internal and third-party productions. All of the pieces on stage are modular so productions can choose to keep or remove elements depending on needs, and clients can bring in their own camera package and lenses. Film cameras can be also used if they have a high definition video tap. The entire system is tied to editing bays with 60 terabytes of online storage.

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Montreal Studio Serves as Lead Facility for Next Duncan Jones Thriller

Montreal, Que: January 11, 2011… Montreal-based visual effects studio Modus FX served as the lead facility for Duncan Jones’ upcoming action thriller Source Code, scheduled for release on April 1. Source Code tells the story of a U.S. soldier who wakes up in the body of another man and discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train – forced to relive the final 8 minutes of the incident over and over again until he finds the perpetrator. This December Modus FX delivered over 150 shots for the film, including complex digital crowd shots, CG trains, environments and dramatic pyrotechnics.

“It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Modus, and it has been a huge eye opener, revealing just what high levels of work are possible from the best more

Leading Singapore Post Facility Relying on New Colour Workflow Management System

London: January 6, 2011… VHQ, one of Southeast Asia’s leading postproduction companies, recently selected Pandora’s Revolution Express to anchor the company’s colour correction workflow, from ingest to deliverables. Along with YoYo software, included with the Revolution Express package, VHQ now has an efficient data workflow for all file formats, crucial for the volume of work required of a modern commercials facility.

“We chose the system because we knew we were going to be getting more and more digital formats like RED and Phantom,” said Billy Fong, producer and technical manager at VHQ. “We wanted a simple, streamlined way to process those file formats for postproduction and grading on our Pandora system.”

Founded in 1984, VHQ is one of the region’s leading media and postproduction companies, and now has facilities across Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and more

Europe’s Largest VFX Facility Purchases Site License for Over 800 Digital Artists

Shotgun Software, developers of the Shotgun web-based production tracking and collaboration system, announced that Double Negative has purchased a global Shotgun site license for its facilities in London and Singapore. Double Negative is Europe’s largest provider of visual effects for film.

Said Matt Holben, CEO, Double Negative, “The Shotgun team is building the tools our staff wants to use and a framework that keeps us as agile and efficient while we grow. This is a strategic business investment we expect to deliver big returns over the coming years.�

Double Negative will integrate Shotgun into its in-house project management tools and then start to use it project by project. The studio has recently contributed visual effects for a number of summer tentpoles, including “Inception,� “Harry Potter and more