AEON – A Life in a Day
The DMCI’s AEON follows a lifetime of seasons using 3D animation and light at TEDxSydney. Read more
MPC – Still Life Animation
MPC animated a decomposing classical still life painting in real-time, recreating a Dutch painter’s brush strokes and realistic behaviour of flies and maggots. Read more
QTAKE HD’s New Modules Bring Video Assist Up to Date
QTAKE HD Video Assist software now has five new modules adding 
virtual camera and multi-camera editing and playback functions, and
comes in a lower-cost QTAKE LITE bundle.
Haivision Powers Live Video Streaming for Ballet Festival
Haivision’s Mako and KulaByte encoders were used to deliver high 
quality video for live streaming of simultaneous performances by
ballet dancers in Amsterdam and Toronto
Red Giant & Dell Put Thrills Into ‘Spy vs Guy’
Director Seth Worley and producer Aharon Rabinowitz made ‘Spy vs 
Guy’ with the help of Red Giant BulletProof offload, prep and delivery
software and Dell workstations.
Screen Australia’s Research Shows Kids Want Kids’ TV
Research at Screen Australia and Australian Children’s Television Foundation 
indicates children prefer narrative, dedicated children’s screen content,
watched on multiple screens.
Thinkbox Stoke MX Generates Particle Clouds for 3ds Max
Stoke MX particle simulator plug-in from Thinkbox Software for Autodesk 
3ds Max can simplify and accelerate high-volume particle cloud creation,
driven by velocity fields.
Evertz Dreamcatcher Customises 4K Slo Mo Sports Replay
Dreamcatcher can zoom into the 4K raster of UltraHD sports footage 
to customise replays in 4K or HDTV standards. A Mosaic feature
synchronises multiple angles for playout.
Signiant Media Shuttle Speeds HD Film Entries to Banff Festival
The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival has standardized on 
Signiant’s Media Shuttle file sharing for digital film submission and
distribution at its annual festival and world tour.
Adobe Sharpens Image Editing in Photoshop CC, Shifts to Cloud Updates
From June 2013, Adobe software updates will be available only by subscribing 
to the Creative Cloud, which comprises tools and services for content creation
and delivery.
shade VFX Expands into New Location
In response to expanding business, shade VFX has relocated to Bergamot 
Station in Santa Monica, and taken on Lisa Maher as Business Development
Executive.
LOOK Effects Welcomes VFX Producer Wendy Lanning
LOOK Effects has hired Wendy Lanning as executive visual effects 
producer, bringing almost 20 years of experience to LOOK at their
Vancouver office.
FMX Digital Entertainment Conference Concludes for 2013
The FMX conference on digital entertainment concluded with 
a preview of ‘Iron Man 3’, and covered themes from games to
animation, VFX and the state of the industry.
AJA KONA Integrates FCP Video Editing at Green Rock
Green Rock Media runs a custom built FCP video editing, conversion 
and monitoring infrastructure that functions on two AJA KONA 3
cards and four KONA 3G cards.
Digistor’s New Software Training Covers Autodesk, MAXON & More
New training software courses planned at Digistor’s Training 
Centre includes Autodesk, Avid, Apple, Adobe and the Foundry,
with a strong line up for MAXON CINEMA 4D.
BLUEFISH444 Steps Up Video Support for AVID, SCRATCH & Adobe
Bluefish444’s Apple Mac installer now supports AVID Open IO and 
Assimilate software on OSX 10.8. The Adobe Mercury Transmit
plug-in now supports Epoch 4K Supernova video cards.
FUJIFILM IS-mini Brings Precise Colour Management On Set
The new FUJIFILM IS-mini on-set colour management device 
takes HD-SDI video and converts the colour information via 1D
and 3D LUTs to HS-SDI and HDMI outputs.
ACC Races Sports Content to Broadcast with Aspera SDK
Atlantic Coast Conference used Aspera SDK to build a customized 
video distribution portal with high-speed transfers of college sports
content powered by Aspera faspex.
TVB Hong Kong Puts Chyron Channel Box HD Graphics On-Air
Hong Kong TVB free-to-air broadcaster recently installed multiple 
Chyron Channel Box HD graphics systems from Magna Systems
for the technical and on-air graphics of its three channels.
Quantel Pablo Rio Lifts Colour & Finishing at RingSide Creative
RingSide Creative commercials post house in Detroit runs three 
Quantel Pablo Rio systems to speed up and add more tools to
its online colour correction and finishing pipeline.
Red Echo Post Expands into Colour with FilmLight’s Baselight
Editorial facility Red Echo Post, working in commercials and film in 
Cincinnati, has purchased the FilmLight Baselight ONE colour grading
system to extend its in-house services.
Norwia miniHUB platform and TV 2 Go the Distance
Broadcaster TV 2, Norway’s largest commercial station is using 
Norwia miniHUB platform to cover Vasaloppet cross-country ski
race in Sweden from three transmission sites.
Cache-A LTFS LTO Archives Smithsonian Channel’s Heritage
Smithsonian Channel protects its assets for the long-term and maintains a 
working archive based on LTO-tape, using the LTFS format and Cache-A
archive equipment.
