Archive for August 8th, 2011

Digital Entertainment Creation Software Subscription Customers Receive Early Access to Powerful New Capabilities

Autodesk, Inc., has announced Subscription Advantage Packs for its Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2012, as well as most of its portfolio of Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) toolsets. Subscription Advantage Packs provide current Autodesk Subscription customers with early access to new features and enhancements that help manage complexity, make everyday workflows more efficient and expand creative capabilities.

“Subscription Advantage Packs allow us to get new functionality out to our Subscription customers much sooner than would otherwise be possible,” said Marc Petit, Autodesk senior vice president, Media & Entertainment. “This is great because the 2012 Advantage Packs contain powerful new enhancements that are going to help artists work more efficiently and creatively. We’ve integrated high-performance third-party technology, speeded up common workflows, and extended creative capabilities.”

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Splice Here® has welcomed Creative Director Shannon Pettini to its award-winning design team. Pettini joins the company having had extensive tenures as a Senior Creative Manager for nationally renowned retailers Target and Dayton-Hudson/Marshall Field’s. She has also served as Executive Creative Director at interactive/design agency Catalyst and Good People Branding.

To view CD Shannon Pettini’s portfolio: http://splice.tv/category/work/creative-direction/

“What intrigued me about Splice was its diversity,” explains Pettini. “Not only does Splice work on commercial and advertising projects, but also on digital signage, online content, television, and feature films. In my new role at Splice, I will also be interfacing daily with editors, visual effects artists, colorists and music/sound talent. We have everything under one roof here, which is very exciting. My goal moving forward is to have clients bring their projects to us during the creative concept stage, so that more

Richie Keen, one of TV’s most luminary Comedy Directors to emerge over this past year, has signed with global production company Superlounge for representation in advertising/commercials. Keen brings his hilarious sensibilities and seasoned talent to Superlounge, a perfect match with like-minded Comedy Directors Jordan Brady and Tom Schiller. For Superlounge, Keen is in the midst of two new advertising projects for XBox via AKQA/SF and BillMyParents.com, powered by MasterCard, via Fishtank/San Diego.

To view Richie Keen’s Commercial Reel at Superlounge, go to:

http://www.superlounge.tv/richie-keen.html

“I’ve known Jordan Brady for a long time,” explains the Director. “I wanted to choose a production company for commercials and advertising who really understood my take on comedy, which can be a bit left of center. The Superlounge approach is unconventional, and I like that. I really trust Jordan’s opinion and his taste. I believe he more

New York, NY, Aug. 8, 2011 — Gravity, an international creative, content and brand communications company, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv, has named Roy Eventov as Creative Director for the company’s Digital Group. In his new position, he will provide creative direction and innovation for the company’s biggest digital clients. He joins Gravity from MRM Worldwide. The announcement was made today by Shemi Levi, Gravity’s Chief Digital Officer.

Zviah Eldar, Gravity’s CEO/Chief Creative Officer, said, “During the course of the last 10 years, Roy has been running teams of high-end designers, 3D artists, animators, motion graphics artists and editors for a diverse range of major clients and high profile projects. His approach to design and his skills working on the video side are equally excellent. He sees the web from a user’s perspective, more

Digital connectivity solutions provider Gefen today announced a new relationship with Marshall Electronics to enable live video footage on any HDTV display. Support for live video is particularly beneficial for many industries including entertainment, hospitality, retail and more.

The Marshall Electronics HD Encoder/Decoder (VS-102-HDMI) accepts video from any non HDCP-encrypted HDMI source, including satellite set-top boxes, hi-def cameras and more. When used in a Gefen Digital Signage Creator project, users are able to feed live video in the HDMI format to any HDTV display, delivering all the features of digital video with digital audio.

The Gefen Digital Signage Creator works with any Windows-based system and gives users full control over their digital signage content creation when connected to the LAN. The intuitive layout program offers the ability to create templates, insert music, layer video images, write scripts to control content and pull RSS feeds off the more

Colombian artist and activist Juanes has been topping the Latin American charts since his debut in 2000. From his fifth studio album, “P.A.R.C.E.”, sprung an eponymous worldwide tour, which kicked off in the spring of 2011 with legendary mixer, Robert “Cubby” Colby at the audio FOH helm. Colby, who met Juanes while mixing the Latin Grammy’s in 2002 and again in 2003, signed on with the artist 2004/05 and has toured with him over the past several years.

Joining Colby on the P.A.R.C.E tour is Eighth Day Sound systems engineer/crew chief, Edgardo “Verta” Vertanessian, along with monitor tech Fabian Quiroga and PA techs Vince Buller and Clinton Reynolds. Verta has worked in sync with Cubby for over a decade on various tours, first with Shakira and later with Luis Miguel. more

At SIGGRAPH 2011, Shotgun Software unveils Version 3.0 of the Shotgun production management and collaboration system, with new features that make it faster and easier for visual effects, animation and video game studios to manage productions and collaborate. The company also announced two new integration projects; with the Rush render manager and cineSync’s new browser-based review tool cineSync Online. Shotgun is showcasing these new capabilities, along with existing integrations with RV, Deadline and Qube! at its exhibit booth, #963.

“Studios rely on information like fuel. They can run into frustrating and costly delays if up-to-date information is not available to everyone all the time,” said Shotgun CEO Don Parker. “We are excited about the advancements in Shotgun 3.0, and our growing list of integrated applications, which will continue to help our clients work at top speed.”

Shotgun v3.0 features completely re-written, polished navigation that simplifies the way more

Team completes custom development/integration project for Blur Studios

At SIGGRAPH 2011, Thinkbox Software, a top provider of creative solutions for visual artists in entertainment, engineering and design, launched a new Professional Services offering. Thinkbox clients can now tap the company as outsourced R&D to customize Thinkbox software, integrate it into their pipelines and/or develop custom software tools.

“With tight deadlines and increasingly high client expectations, studios are continually challenged with creating new and compelling imagery and managing efficient workflows while at the same time integrating new software. This is a challenge we know well, as many of us have been developing software and custom artist tools on the job for feature films for years,” said Thinkbox CEO Chris Bond. “Not only do we have the expertise, but beyond our commercial software we have an extensive and diverse codebase that we can tap to customize solutions for our more

Post-Production House Relies on the TM9 to Keep Audio in Check for Top British Comedy Series

COLOGNE, GERMANY, 8 AUGUST, 2011 – RTW, a leading manufacturer and distributor of professional audio metering and control devices, is pleased to announce that Suite, a post-production house located on Newman Street in London’s West End, is using the TouchMonitor TM9 to meet new program delivery requirements for Sky Television, which include the EBU R128 loudness standard. Having previously tested the TM9 and its loudness monitoring capability, the facility purchased the device knowing it could meet that loudness requirement.

The RTW TM9, supplied by Aspen Media, the UK and Ireland distributor, was provided with multichannel capability plus loudness and SPL measurement and will be operated by Sound Engineers Simon Wright and Matt Baird in Suite’s 5.1 Pro Tools studio.

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Production companies, advertising agencies and others can now quickly create web-based sales presentations, casting sessions and digital pre-pro books.
Laguna Niguel, Calif.—Simian, a leading provider of web-based media management tools for creative companies in advertising, film, television, music and interactive media , has launched a new feature that allows users to quickly create customized microsites to support their sales, marketing and production activities.
Simian is the only media management platform for creative companies that gives users the power to design and deploy customized microsites without the need for third-party plug-ins or knowledge of HTML. The microsite creator is an integrated feature of Simian Projects which boosts inherent functionality and still maintains a streamlined user interface. Building a microsite in Simian is simple. The user selects a template and employs a WYSIWYG editor to create pages and add files from their Projects or Simian Media Library, including video, audio, images, and documents. more