Premiere of "Two Gates of Sleep" to 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Vision On's first color grading of a feature film - director/writer Alistair Banks Griffin's "Two Gates of Sleep" -- had its premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight on May 18. Vision On began using ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution in August 2009 for the real-time conform, color grading, and finishing of imagery projects.
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Digital Screening for Fracture at 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Fracture, the 27-min film from French editor, writer and director Nicolas Sarkissian, is screening at the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious International Critics Week, which showcases first and second feature films by directors worldwide. Wallpaper Productions in Paris, France used ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution for the post-production data workflow.
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yU+Co Teams With Agency DraftFCB For 2010 Census Campaign
In a whimsical, branding initiative, yU+Co, the design and visual effects studio led by Creative Director Garson Yu, unveiled a multifaceted campaign targeting. . . well, every person in America. Working under the direction of agency DraftFCB New York, the 2010 Census campaign encompasses TV, print, outdoor and online -- a media blitz that includes the work of 14 partner agencies produced in 28 different languages.
...Read More »
Rhino Scales Up For Cox
Rhino CD Natasha Saenko, in conjunction with Periscope and Untitled's Tim and Jeff Cronenweth, just completed work on the new campaign for Cox Business that promotes the company's custom communications solutions. The two spots are just the latest in a long string of transformation and transition spots that Rhino has handled for Mazda, Subway, Audi, Mercedes, and Panasonic Tough Book, among others
...Read More »
Making a Pig Splash
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, which opens in the UK on March 26th 2010, is the sequel to the hugely successful (over $120m internationally) 2005 family hit, Nanny McPhee. As with the first film, Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and also stars as the eponymous child minder.
...Read More »
A Non-Blizzard Doesn't Keep Lit Post From Its Appointed Snow Job
Much to the consternation of millions of people, the U.S. was hit last winter by a series of bone-chilling blizzards. But for Frozen, a feature film about three skiers stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death, a snowstorm was what was exactly called for to make the peril complete. Plans were dashed, however, when the weather turned uncooperative and the film had literally no budget to create the demanding visual effects in post.
...Read More »
QLab in Mumbai: Five SCRATCH Systems for High-End DI and Training
India's QLab turned to SCRATCH when its existing DI system ran into "issues". The experience was so good, the company now has five SCRATCH systems deployed across its DI/photochemical lab and burgeoning Digital Film School training facility.
...Read More »
Hybrid Production Boutique DETOX Launches with Integrated Campaign for Henson Alternative
DETOX, a brand-new hybrid production boutique in New York, has officially launched. Headed by Founder/Creative Director Barney Miller, alongside experienced industry pros Rachelle Way, Head of Production, and Alice Mintzer, Creative Development, DETOX features a roster of top creative and emerging talent whose professional backgrounds span the spectrum of production and post.
...Read More »
Absolute Helps Stride Keep Secrets For JWT
Some things are best left unsaid. JWT NY and Director Jack Cole of Pulse Films London tapped Absolute and Lead Flame Artist Daniel Morris to send this message with a hilarious :30 promoting the secret flavor of Stride Gum's new Mega Mystery brand.
...Read More »
FuseFX Taps Nuke For Extensive VFX on Showtime's "United States of Tara"
When Burbank-based visual effects studio FuseFX began working on the new season of Showtime's "United States of Tara," it turned to Nuke, The Foundry's powerful compositing application, to facilitate the extensive green screen effects required for a series about a woman with a multiple personality disorder.
...Read More »
Anonymous Pumps Out Lexus Hybrid Spot for Team One
Anonymous Content Director Andrew Douglas, via Team One, recently completed a compelling :60 promoting Lexus' line of hybrid vehicles. The spot is a masterpiece of choreography and a beautiful ode to the luxury car maker's foresight.
...Read More »
Loyalkaspar Teams With Agency Brooklyn Brothers For Cable Provider Insight Communication's Ten-Spot Branding Campaign
When ad agency The Brooklyn Brothers approached New York-based design and story-driven creative engagement studio, Loyalkaspar, about collaborating on a campaign for Insight Communication, the U.S's ninth largest cable operator (serving the Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana areas), they knew it would be a test on a number of levels. Not only was the idea creatively challenging, but given the project's budget restrictions it would also force them to rethink how to achieve the spectacular results the concept demanded.
...Read More »
"The Exploding Girl" Premiere Set for March 12
Award winning drama, The Exploding Girl (2010), starring Zoe Kazan of Revolutionary Road, makes its theatrical premiere on March 12 at New York City's Landmark Sunshine Theater. Working on a typically tight indie budget and schedule, the filmmaker's challenge was to get the highest quality feature at the lowest possible cost.
...Read More »
Asylum and Smuggler Change Life Into Art for Samsung Mobile
Asylum Design CD Simon Cassels, in collaboration with Smuggler directing team The Guard Brothers via Leo Burnett, Chicago, handled post, VFX, design and animation on an imaginative spot promoting the Android-powered Samsung Behold(r) II mobile phone. The :30 advertisement, Graphic Artist, continues Samsung Mobile's overarching campaign to show off the innovative and practical uses for their smart phones in everyday life.
...Read More »
INTERspectacular Brings Bold Back to BET
BET has a new look, thanks to the creative genius of INTERspectacular. It is bright, bold, and exudes confidence ? just like the popular programming from the ever-expanding cable network.
...Read More »
Joachim Back's The New Tenants Wins Oscar - VFX by SMNY
Joachim Back's The New Tenants took home an Oscar last night in the best Live-Action Short category. With VFX and Finishing courtesy of Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY), The New Tenants tells the terrifying story of two men who move into an apartment and discover its cursed history through a disturbed cast of neighbors.
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NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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ASSIMILATE Congratulates SCRATCH Users for 2010 Cannes Film Festival Nominations
At the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 12 - 23, 2010), several prestigious award nominations and honors are on the roster for filmmakers whose post-production companies used ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH Digital Finishing Solution in their digital workflows.
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Premiere of "Two Gates of Sleep" to 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Vision On's first color grading of a feature film - director/writer Alistair Banks Griffin's "Two Gates of Sleep" -- had its premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight on May 18. Vision On began using ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution in August 2009 for the real-time conform, color grading, and finishing of imagery projects.
...Read More »
Digital Screening for Fracture at 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Fracture, the 27-min film from French editor, writer and director Nicolas Sarkissian, is screening at the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious International Critics Week, which showcases first and second feature films by directors worldwide. Wallpaper Productions in Paris, France used ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution for the post-production data workflow.
...Read More »
Tool Mans Up for Miller Lite Campaign via Draftfcb
Tool Director Erich Joiner, in collaboration with Draftfcb, just completed a five-spot Miller Lite campaign, launching an irreverent taste-driven message for the original light beer.
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yU+Co Teams With Agency DraftFCB For 2010 Census Campaign
In a whimsical, branding initiative, yU+Co, the design and visual effects studio led by Creative Director Garson Yu, unveiled a multifaceted campaign targeting. . . well, every person in America. Working under the direction of agency DraftFCB New York, the 2010 Census campaign encompasses TV, print, outdoor and online -- a media blitz that includes the work of 14 partner agencies produced in 28 different languages.
...Read More »
Rhino Scales Up For Cox
Rhino CD Natasha Saenko, in conjunction with Periscope and Untitled's Tim and Jeff Cronenweth, just completed work on the new campaign for Cox Business that promotes the company's custom communications solutions. The two spots are just the latest in a long string of transformation and transition spots that Rhino has handled for Mazda, Subway, Audi, Mercedes, and Panasonic Tough Book, among others
...Read More »
Making a Pig Splash
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, which opens in the UK on March 26th 2010, is the sequel to the hugely successful (over $120m internationally) 2005 family hit, Nanny McPhee. As with the first film, Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and also stars as the eponymous child minder.
...Read More »
Cut + Run's Williams and Swietlik Edit Carl Rinsch' Film " Podarok" for Philips Cinema's Parallel Lines Project
This morning Philips debuted five innovative and compelling films that comprise "Parallel Lines" a project commissioned for Philips Cinema 21:9 TV. Among them is the dazzling, cinematic thriller "Podarok" which was written and directed by RSA's Carl Erik Rinsch and edited by Cut + Run's Dayn Williams and Dan Swietlik.
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A Non-Blizzard Doesn't Keep Lit Post From Its Appointed Snow Job
Much to the consternation of millions of people, the U.S. was hit last winter by a series of bone-chilling blizzards. But for Frozen, a feature film about three skiers stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death, a snowstorm was what was exactly called for to make the peril complete. Plans were dashed, however, when the weather turned uncooperative and the film had literally no budget to create the demanding visual effects in post.
...Read More »
QLab in Mumbai: Five SCRATCH Systems for High-End DI and Training
India's QLab turned to SCRATCH when its existing DI system ran into "issues". The experience was so good, the company now has five SCRATCH systems deployed across its DI/photochemical lab and burgeoning Digital Film School training facility.
...Read More »
Kommitted Takes Continental Airlines Around The World in 30 Seconds, via Kaplan Thaler
Kommitted Director Nathan McGuinness, in collaboration with the VFX pros at Asylum and the Kaplan Thaler Group, lensed a recent :30 promoting the ease of travel on Continental Airlines.
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Hybrid Production Boutique DETOX Launches with Integrated Campaign for Henson Alternative
DETOX, a brand-new hybrid production boutique in New York, has officially launched. Headed by Founder/Creative Director Barney Miller, alongside experienced industry pros Rachelle Way, Head of Production, and Alice Mintzer, Creative Development, DETOX features a roster of top creative and emerging talent whose professional backgrounds span the spectrum of production and post.
...Read More »
Absolute Helps Stride Keep Secrets For JWT
Some things are best left unsaid. JWT NY and Director Jack Cole of Pulse Films London tapped Absolute and Lead Flame Artist Daniel Morris to send this message with a hilarious :30 promoting the secret flavor of Stride Gum's new Mega Mystery brand.
...Read More »
FuseFX Taps Nuke For Extensive VFX on Showtime's "United States of Tara"
When Burbank-based visual effects studio FuseFX began working on the new season of Showtime's "United States of Tara," it turned to Nuke, The Foundry's powerful compositing application, to facilitate the extensive green screen effects required for a series about a woman with a multiple personality disorder.
...Read More »
Anonymous Pumps Out Lexus Hybrid Spot for Team One
Anonymous Content Director Andrew Douglas, via Team One, recently completed a compelling :60 promoting Lexus' line of hybrid vehicles. The spot is a masterpiece of choreography and a beautiful ode to the luxury car maker's foresight.
...Read More »
Loyalkaspar Teams With Agency Brooklyn Brothers For Cable Provider Insight Communication's Ten-Spot Branding Campaign
When ad agency The Brooklyn Brothers approached New York-based design and story-driven creative engagement studio, Loyalkaspar, about collaborating on a campaign for Insight Communication, the U.S's ninth largest cable operator (serving the Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana areas), they knew it would be a test on a number of levels. Not only was the idea creatively challenging, but given the project's budget restrictions it would also force them to rethink how to achieve the spectacular results the concept demanded.
...Read More »
"The Exploding Girl" Premiere Set for March 12
Award winning drama, The Exploding Girl (2010), starring Zoe Kazan of Revolutionary Road, makes its theatrical premiere on March 12 at New York City's Landmark Sunshine Theater. Working on a typically tight indie budget and schedule, the filmmaker's challenge was to get the highest quality feature at the lowest possible cost.
...Read More »
Asylum and Smuggler Change Life Into Art for Samsung Mobile
Asylum Design CD Simon Cassels, in collaboration with Smuggler directing team The Guard Brothers via Leo Burnett, Chicago, handled post, VFX, design and animation on an imaginative spot promoting the Android-powered Samsung Behold(r) II mobile phone. The :30 advertisement, Graphic Artist, continues Samsung Mobile's overarching campaign to show off the innovative and practical uses for their smart phones in everyday life.
...Read More »
INTERspectacular Brings Bold Back to BET
BET has a new look, thanks to the creative genius of INTERspectacular. It is bright, bold, and exudes confidence ? just like the popular programming from the ever-expanding cable network.
...Read More »
Joachim Back's The New Tenants Wins Oscar - VFX by SMNY
Joachim Back's The New Tenants took home an Oscar last night in the best Live-Action Short category. With VFX and Finishing courtesy of Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY), The New Tenants tells the terrifying story of two men who move into an apartment and discover its cursed history through a disturbed cast of neighbors.
...Read More »
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