For Showtime‘s SHOXC Elite Challenger Series, Bombastic embraced the power of rough-hewn motion typography to present the intense world of next generation fighting. Working hand-in-hand with the Showtime creative group, including art director Rudy Jaimes, Bombastic delivered a one-two punch that speaks to the enthusiastic audiences and potential followers of this sport. more…

Broadcast design & animation studio motion504 has expanded its team with the addition of Executive Producer Eric Mueller and Designer Faith Miller. Mueller will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, budgets and scheduling, as well as client relations and company growth. Miller will work hand-in-hand with the studio‘s creative directors on its repertoire of broadcast design, television and commercial projects. more…

Providing new users the fundamentals for editing on the Thomson Grass Valley Edius system and existing users a quick start to the new major release

Hoffman Estates, IL -September 27, 2007 - Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, has announced self-paced, professional training for the Thomson Grass Valley Edius 4.5 editing system. The new Class on Demand title – Complete Training for Edius 4.5 – is designed for users new to the Edius 4.5 system. Introduced at NAB 2007, the Edius 4.5 release is a departure from its predecessors as it introduces a brand new user interface making existing training materials obsolete and Class on Demand‘s ‘Complete Training for Edius 4.5‘ one of the only self-paced, professional training products available on the market today. more…

New Design/Production Boutique Mrs. K Inspires Improvisation For HGTV’s House Hunters Promo Campaign

DENVER, CO – In the new promo campaign for HGTV‘s House Hunters, the show that takes viewers behind the scenes and into the emotional experience of finding and purchasing a new home, recently-launched production/design boutique Mrs K (www.mrsk.tv) and Creative Director Jeanne Kopeck cleverly focus on a variety of couple reactions to homes presented to spotlight the show’s unique take at home buying. more…

Aviom‘s MH10f Fiber Merger Hub made its high-profile debut moving live broadcast audio at the recent MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas.

The Vegas hotel-nightclub that hosted the star-studded extravaganza has a sizable complement of Aviom Pro64 Series products already installed, including a dozen 6416dio Digital I/O Modules as tie lines. The MH10f Merger Hub allowed MTV engineers and installer Audio Analysts to connect the venue’s 12 6416dio modules via fiber to broadcast locations over long distances. more…

New VICON FK Extreme System Enables PLF to Produce Mo-Cap Cost Effectively for Pre-Viz, Commercials and Game Cinematics

VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems, announced that its new low-cost motion capture system, the FK Extreme, has been installed at Venice, Calif.-based animation and pre-visualization studio Pixel Liberation Front (PLF). The company is currently using its eight-camera FK Extreme system on game cinematics, film pre-visualization projects and television commercial projects. more…

Jaime Baksht, one of the top film dubbing mixers in Mexico City, has selected a Solid State Logic C300 HD Master Studio System for Astro Studios, a new, ground-up facility in which he is a partner.

Astro Studios, scheduled to open in December, will feature the largest C300 HD to date, a two-operator, 48-fader, 512-channel console. With this C300 HD, Astro will be a world-class facility capable of meeting mainstream feature film mixing demands. more…

Look Solutions, manufacturer of high-performance fog and haze machines, is pleased to announce the opening of a new sales office near New York City to service a growing roster of clients in the area.

“Three years ago we opened our first facility in the US to better support our North American customers,” says Kirsten Eicher, CEO of Look Solutions‘ German headquarters. “Since most Broadway shows that feature atmospheric effects now use at least one Look Solutions product, it makes sense to station a representative in the vicinity to provide the best possible customer support to this important segment of the market.” more…

Award-winning VFX Supervisor and Flame Compositor, Les Umberger, sets up Visual Effects and finishing shop at West Post Digital in Santa Monica

Santa Monica, CA-September 26, 2007-Les Umberger, Emmy Award winning VFX supervisor and flame artist, is the most recent addition to the West Post Digital collective. His arrival is followed with the announcement of the newly opened VFX division which Umberger helped create. more…

To highlight the Sears‘ new Fall fashions, Agency Y&R turned to the talents of director Joel Pront of Believe Media and visual effects house Zoic Studios to transform the Sears Book into an animated pop up experience.

To accomplish this unique presentation, fashion models were photographed on green screen in the latest looks of the season. Additionally, thousands of still photos were taken by Pront and turned into the magical environments by the Zoic team that fill the book pages so that as the pages turn, the environments change. The unique blending of 2D photographs and 3D environments is a contemporary interpretation of the childhood delight of pop up books in a truly breakthrough commercial package. more…