Production & Post-Production

Hurlbut Cookes for Fathers and Daughters

Wed, 02/17/2016 - 10:47 -- Nick Dager

Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, ASC used a series of 10 Cooke S4/i focal lengths to shoot Gabriele Muccino's latest feature Fathers and Daughters, starring Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. Hurlbut's lens package for the Canon EOS D500 and MōVI digital 3-axis gyro-stabilized handheld camera gimbal included the Cooke S4/i 14mm, 18mm, 21mm, 27mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm, and 135mm lenses. Fathers and Daughters, a Voltage Films and Busted Shark production of a Voltage Pictures Film, marks the ninth feature film Hurlbut has shot with Cooke lenses.

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Cinegy Joins ImmersiaTV

Wed, 02/17/2016 - 10:26 -- Nick Dager

Cinegy has been invited to join ImmersiaTV, an EU consortium of university technology incubators, research institutes, and commercial entities collaborating to research and develop the future of home entertainment, including virtual and augmented reality.

Creating the Grotesque for Deadpool

Tue, 02/16/2016 - 13:13 -- Nick Dager

Rodeo FX completed close to 230 VFX shots for Deadpool, Tim Miller’s R-rated depiction of the Marvel Comics anti-superhero. The studio, led by VFX supervisor Wayne Brinton, worked on complex sequences that required fire and embers, grotesque skin alterations, and set extensions. Rodeo FX brought its unique skills to this collaborative VFX effort, ensuring that the finished product was much more than the sum of its parts.

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LightHouse Films Win Multiple Festival Awards

Tue, 02/16/2016 - 13:03 -- Nick Dager

LightHouse Films director Camille de Galbert’s experimental short film Simon has to date been screened at more than 30 film festivals around the world, winning Best Film and Best Experimental at the Miami International Short Film Festival, Miami, Florida; as well as Best Experimental Film at Malibu International Short Film Festival, Malibu, California, Big Mini Media Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York and Women’s Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, California. It also earned Best Narrative Short Film at the Blow Up Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois. In addition, LightHouse client director Charlie Mysak was named Best Emerging Director at the One Screen Film Festival (part of The One Club the world's foremost non-profit organization for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising) for his documentary short New Heights, which spotlights the work of the New York-based community organization of the same name and the positive role it played in the lives of three young New Yorkers.

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Films Posted in Mistika Win Goya Awards

Tue, 02/16/2016 - 12:56 -- Nick Dager

The 30th Goya Awards presented in Madrid this month, honored Spain's best films of 2015. Mistika-related projects, post-produced by SGO customers El Colorado, Free Your Mind and Next Lab & New Media were acknowledged with four prestigious Goya Awards. Fourteen nominations also went to Antaviana Films, El Colorado and Free Your Mind.

Chuang, Others Honored for Efforts at DreamWorks

Tue, 02/16/2016 - 12:47 -- Nick Dager

Richard Chuang and Rahul Thakkar, co-inventors of one of the very first digital animation pipelines, received Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy February 13 for their design work of the PDI/DreamWorks Animation Media Review System. It is Chuang’s second technical Oscar. In addition Andrew Pilgrim, Stewart Birnam and Mark Kirk also received awards for the review workflows and advanced playback features of that DreamWorks Animation Media Review System.

SMPTE Receives Third AMPAS Award

Mon, 02/15/2016 - 10:55 -- Nick Dager

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has received a Special Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS presented the Special Award plaque to SMPTE at the Academy's annual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation, which took place Februrary 13 in Beverly Hills, California.

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