Light Iron, the post-production creative services division of the Panavision group, has selected Nara for its New York and Los Angeles facilities – streamlining its workflow solution and accessibility across sites from dailies through to finishing. The new solution has saved time for producers, increased accuracy, reduced errors and will provide huge workflow advantages for Light Iron’s increasing number of bi-coastal projects.
To mark its landmark eleventh anniversary this month, 11 Dollar Bill continues to expand a business model that has enabled it to successfully serve a national client base of top agencies and brands from boutique studios in Chicago, Boulder and North Carolina. In its latest moves, the company, which provides design, editing, visual effects and finishing services, has relocated its North Carlina office from Raleigh to a modular studio in Durham and added senior editors Ian Ogden and Stephen Berger to its creative team.
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.
