Archive of the Display/Presentation Category

CMT (Creative Media Techniques) produced and co-ordinated all technical production for LEGOLAND‘s hugely popular “After Dark” 2007 event, featuring three evenings of spectacular laser, light and dancing water shows to launch the arrival of the new LEGO® BatmanTM range.

CMT has worked with LEGOLAND for the last 5 years on this and other shows at the Windsor attraction. LEGOLAND event director Penny Jenkins approached CMT‘s Tim Fothergill with an initial idea for the 2007 show, which included the brief that it should be Batman themed, contain lasers and ‘dancing‘ water and be staged at the park‘s Adventure Lake site. more

Large format projection specialists ETC UK have designed and produced a unique Son et Lumière, specially commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company to help celebrate the re-opening of the City’s landmark St George’s Hall building.

The “800 Light Years” show is the first UK Son et Lumière to use ETC’s new and highly flexible OnlyView control platform. more

to view the work: www.guerillafx.com/adidas.html

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – April 20, 2007 – For adidas and Foot Locker, which gathered some of the best graffiti artists in the world to create a signature collection of shoes, Director Thor Raxlen and Guerilla FX (New York, NY), through time-lapse photography, shot the creative efforts of renowned graffiti artist Rime (AKA Jersey Joe). His mural for the “End-to-End” collection takes the artist‘s work literally from the street to your feet. The one minute web spot, which launched April 6th, has been attached to a mix of urban culture, community and sneaker-head sites including XXLmag.com, Artistdirect.com, allhiphop.com, vibe.com, defjam.com, rocafella.com, islandrecords.com, spin.com, blackplanet.com, sneakerfreaker.com, hypebeast.com and sneakerplay.com. In addition, the 1:00 spot is being projected from vans onto building facades throughout both New York and Los Angeles to garner further attention for the new line of sneakers. more

A Radical Lighting RADlite NG1 digital media server is in action on the current Australian Pink Floyd UK arena tour which has just kicked off again with a completely new design for 2007.

RADlite is the latest development in the all-important video and visuals element of the band‘s show. It‘s being used for soft-edging and masking images, movies and effects being projected onto a 60 ft wide upstage arched surface with a 5 metre diameter circular truss hung in front of it. more

Continuing to redefine its premium display line, JVC is excited to introduce two professional broadcast monitors, the DT-V24L1DU, 24in. monitor and the DT-V20L1DU, 20in. monitor. Featuring 16:9 aspect ratio, wide viewing angle, high-speed LCD and precise color reproduction, these monitors are ideal for broadcast and post-production facilities where image accuracy is vital.

“These multi-format professional monitors were created to meet the demanding needs of broadcast applications where ultra-high resolution, advanced signal processing and color reproduction are extremely important,” says Edgar Shane, senior product engineering manager, JVC Professional Products Company. more

3D Tool Quickly Takes Root in Pipeline After Artists put it to the Test

San Mateo, Calif. — April 16, 2007 — Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, today announced that modo™ was used by the Los Angeles-based visual effects company, Zoic Studios, for the FOX action series, “Drive.” An action-packed drama that follows an intense cross country road race, “Drive” relies heavily on movie-quality photorealistic CG shots to amp up the suspense as the actors race for their lives en route to a $32 million prize. Zoic Studios was awarded approximately 120 shots for the series opener and relied upon modo to model and texture several hero elements including a 1970′s Ford pickup truck, a Dodge Grand Caravan and the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse (located in Florida). more

High-quality, Royalty-free Footage Helps Bring Ideas to Life; Many Clips Available in HD

Las Vegas — April 16, 2007 — Artbeats, the industry‘s leading provider of high-quality royalty-free stock footage, today announced the immediate availability of dozens of new collections and solo clips at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB), booth SL8012. Shown for the first time at NAB, some of Artbeats‘ newest titles include: Burning House; Grow!; Lightning Storms; Storm Clouds 2; Mayhem HD; Code Rage; Timelapse Flowers 3; Protestants; Catholics and many more. Artbeats will also debut dozens of new royalty-free solo clips, which are sold individually and are not part of a specific collection. more

ETC France supplied a stunning, complex and elegant high powered video projection show last week for leading Parisian jewelers Van Cleef & Arpels. This was onto the front of their newly redesigned flagship store in Paris‘s majestic Place Vendôme. Produced by Aslize and designed by Scenographism, the projection show featured two Christie 25K projectors and ETC France‘s OnlyView control system. more

Las Vegas, NV - April 16th 2007 - eCinema Systems (NAB Booth SL 9227) recently announced a completely new monitor line consisting of four major classes of monitors:

FX-series: Entry level HD/SD monitoring
PRO-series: Professional, critical-viewing monitors
DCM-series: LED-based, high color accuracy, wide gamut displays
DPX-series: High-end, LED-based, wide-gamut, CRT-replacement

Today the company unveiled an absolute first in the industry: Every monitor in the new lineup is designed to be upgradeable to the next class in performance.

Founder and CEO Martin Euredjian: “What we‘ve done here is revolutionary. Our new display line up is simply amazing -with each monitor line delivering best-of-class performance. Now we add the ability to, at any time, upgrade any eCinema monitor to any other monitor of higher performance. I can‘t think of a better way to say “thank you” to our customers.” more

Valencia, CA – 14th April 2007 - The new eCinema PRO-class LCD monitors being introduced at NAB 2007 are designed to deliver value and accuracy with features designed for high-end HD Production as well as Post-Production applications in 24 and 40 inch form factors.

Founder and CEO Martin Euredjian:

eCinema Systems designed these evaluation-grade displays to deliver exceptional value. They provide a cost-effective solution for HD444, HD422 and SD, with highly accurate 16 bit per channel signal processing and advanced CCFL backlight technology. more