Archive for October 10th, 2011

Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video streaming site generating more than 114 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, today announced it is teaming up with the Original iPhone Film Festival (OIFF) to showcase the film chops of the Apple iOS community.

Open to any filmmaking enthusiast with an iPhone™, iPod Touch™ or iPad2™, the Original iPhone Film Festival showcases the films of the iPhone filmmaker community and encourages aspiring videographers to tell their stories by utilizing the “film studio in their pocket” – the cutting-edge Apple iOS devices that break down the barriers to personal filmmaking. Participants can submit short videos in four categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Brand Films and Music Videos and have the opportunity to win stellar prizes like a Macbook Air, iPad 2, Apple TVs and more.

Videos will be reviewed by a panel of veteran industry more

Nice Shoes Creative Director Brian Bowman will be heading to motion 2011 this week, leading two highly anticipated sessions. The event, which takes place October 9-14 at Albuquerque’s Hotel Andaluz and KiMo Theatre, brings together the motion graphics, VFX, animation communities’ best and brightest minds.

Bowman’s sessions include “Elastic Spaces,” an exploration on the power of reactive environments, which will actively engage attendees in a large-scale kinesthetic experience; and “Verses: Found,” a walk through the making of the poetically-inspired 3D short “Found,” part of the “Verses” series, which he created with Nice Shoes CD Aron Baxter.

For additional details on sessions, as well as tickets to the event, visit motion.

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Key staff, reseller and training centre additions deliver dedicated SCRATCH Six And SCRATCH Lab sales and support

ASSIMILATE (www.assimilateinc.com), the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, has established a sales and technical support division in India. The company has also extended its reseller network and appointed new Authorised Training Centres covering key filmmaking and broadcast markets across the country for its SCRATCH Six and SCRATCH Lab file-based workflow products. This initiative, prompted by increasing sales success, underscores ASSIMILATE’s commitment to supporting the burgeoning broadcast and Bollywood filmmaking industries in India.

ASSIMILATE’s new division is led by Prasenjit Sengupta, who joined recently as director of sales for India. Sengupta’s role is to oversee the expansion of the company’s sales channels, and to strengthen customer services across the country. ASSIMILATE has also recruited Arun Kumar, who will provide training and technical support services in conjunction more

Luxology Ships modo 501 Rigging Master Course
Interactive Training Course by Rich Hurrey Kicks off New Professional Training Series

Mountain View, Calif., Oct. 10, 2011, In the first installment of a new professional training series from Luxology®, instructor Rich Hurrey teaches users the skills necessary to create production-ready animation rigs in modo® 501. Going far beyond a simple “how-to” class, the modo 501 Rigging Master Course consists of 26 hours of video training housed in an interactive framework that goes into the most depth that Luxology has ever offered on a topic.

A modeling and character technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, Rich Hurrey gives viewers a comprehensive foundation for getting the most from modo’s deep animation toolset. The course starts with solid fundamentals and progresses to tutorials that explain how to rig models with increasingly complex behaviors. The course is ideal for anyone who wishes to deepen their more

Bergen, Norway, Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that TV 2 Norway – together with Vizrt partner SterGen High-Tech Ltd – will broadcast live football to TV 2?s IPTV and web viewers. On October 15th, using SterGen’s high-quality 3D conversion technology, TV 2 will broadcast the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester United and Liverpool, pioneering 3D to the Norwegian sport viewers over IPTV infrastructure and over the web.

TV 2 will also be the first to produce and broadcast a native stereoscopic 3D TV production in Norway, when Norway’s national football team will play against Cyprus in the UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifier on October 11th.

“The sale of 3D TVs is rising rapidly, and TV 2 already has a huge amount more

PrimalScream Music & Sound is excited to announce it has opened a new location in Austin, TX, otherwise known as the Live Music Capital of the World. Company Founder/Creative Director Nicole Dionne will work via both Austin and PrimalScream’s Los Angeles studio to produce music and sound for advertising, film and television promotions.

The expansion was inspired with the depth and scope of music talent available in Austin and Dionne’s desire to provide clients increased in person access to collaborating with PrimalScream’s team. The company has over a decade long history of working with artists of all music genres who flock to Austin for its quality of life and numerous music venues, and Dionne’s unprecedented access to award-winning musicians and songwriters was a major consideration in PrimalScream’s new development. The city’s support of both business and the arts ultimately made more

Lance Hayes

Seattle, WA – October 10th, 2011 – Following the critically acclaimed soundtrack for Forza Motorsport 3, ASCAP award-winning composer and producer Lance Hayes (aka DJDM) returns to provide custom music for Forza Motorsport 4 developed by Turn 10 Studios of Microsoft Game Studios. Lance Hayes’ original soundtrack for Forza Motorsport 3 was hailed as one of the best electronic albums of 2010 by G4 TV. Created exclusively for the Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 4 is scheduled for release on 11th October, 2011.

Working closely with Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the Forza Motorsport franchise, Lance Hayes crafted definitive musical statements to complement the new look and feel of Forza Motorsport 4. The new soundtrack features a broad range of music styles and overall chill demeanor encompassing primarily electronica, ambient and downtempo with more

Building on Company’s 3D Synching Technology, GoPro Array Defines New Level of Camera Versatility

HALF MOON BAY, CA (October 10, 2011) – GoPro, the world’s leading activity image capture company, today released a new video for international surf brand, Rip Curl, that uses the first ever mobile, waterproof 48 camera array to capture never-before-seen perspectives of two time world champion surfer, Mick Fanning, doing what he does best in the warm waters of the South Pacific. The video highlights the capabilities of the GoPro Camera Array that was used for Rip Curl’s upcoming marketing campaign for its Mirage Boardshort and was shot in conjunction with the pioneers of camera array photography, Tim and Callum Macmillan. Additional videos for the Rip Curl campaign featuring this new GoPro Array technology will showcase Rip Curl surfers Owen Wright, Matt Wilkinson, Dillon Perillo and Dean Brady.

“At GoPro we’re always looking more

kaboom director brandon dickerson will enjoy the World Premiere of his independent feature film SIRONIA at the Austin Film Festival held October 20-27, 2011. The film is the inaugural feature for Dickerson and producing partner kaboom productions. SIRONIA features Wes Cunningham, Amy Acker, Tony Hale, Robyn Lively, Jeremy Sisto and Carrie Preston in a story about a musician’s search for authenticity and purpose.

Inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Wes Cunningham, SIRONIA is the story of a talented musician who has been chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood music machine. Frustrated by his broken career, Thomas Fisher and his wife Molly impulsively pack up and move to small town Sironia, Texas to live a more authentic life and raise their first child near Molly’s brother and his family. Despite the change of scenery, Thomas’s deep resentment over his more

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