The Dublin-based post-production facility Gabha Studios has chosen a Christie CP4420-Xe cinema projector for its new color finishing suite at Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. The independent visual effects studio delivers high-end visual effects, color grading and mastering for commercials, broadcast, TV, film and content.
Arsenal FX Color knows that the best way to keep pace with the rapidly changing media and entertainment industry is by having the right technology. That’s why the high-end, boutique postproduction house in Los Angeles recently upgraded to Sony’s BVM-HX3110 Trimaster HX Professional Grading Monitor. The new 4K monitor helps handle the company’s diverse workload of increasingly complex media projects and satisfies constantly evolving client demands for high-quality content.
FilmLight today announced the first set of high-profile creatives lined up to judge the 2024 FilmLight Color Awards, including cinematographers Mandy Walker, Robert Richardson and Erik Messerschmidt. The awards are presented annually at the international film festival EnergaCamerImage in November.
Brainstorm, manufacturer of real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio technology, has opened a new office and demo studio in Austin, Texas. This company says the expansion marks a significant milestone in its growth and commitment to serving its North American market. In conjunction with the office opening, Brainstorm hired Thierry Gonzalo as the new senior solutions architect. He will be based in Austin.
Chaos has unveiled Project Arena, an upcoming toolset that the company says offers studios a faster, simple alternative to game engines for virtual production. With Project Arena, artists can move V-Ray assets and animations to LED walls in around ten mins, accessing production ray tracing with pipelines they know and trust.
Maxon visual effects software was used in the making of several films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. This achievement recognizes the dedication and hard work of the visual effects teams in creating engaging stories and unforgettable experiences for moviegoers.
Rising Sun Pictures’ visual effects supervisor Julian Hutchens and visual effects producers Ian Cope, Andrew Whitehurst, Kathy Siegel and Alistair Williams, won the 2024 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for Best Visual Effects or Animation for their work on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The visual effects studio Whiskytree has opened a second location in Georgia. Located just outside of Atlanta in Alpharetta, The Whiskytree Southern Corporation will add dozens of new artists and technicians, more than doubling the company’s size. The new location will work in tandem with the original San Rafael studio to expand its capabilities and take on new VFX projects for film, television and more.
In a new agreement, Walt Disney Studios and Pixelworks have worked together on TrueCut Motion technology to enhance creative intent by eliminating motion playback anomalies, while maintaining the desired brightness levels; all while preserving the authentic cinematic motion look and feel of the source.
Phosphene, the award-winning visual effects and design studio, served as the principal visual effects house for FX’s critically acclaimed mystery series A Murder at the End of the World. Created, written, and directed by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, A Murder at the End of the World centers on a Gen Z amateur sleuth, Darby Hart (Emma Corrin), who is working to solve a murder at a secluded luxury hotel in Iceland during a furious snowstorm. The series also stars Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, and Marling, herself.
