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
iMovix UM+ Spine & Phantom Broadcast Sports in Slo-Mo
UM+ Spine is a broadcast integration package that incorporates 
the new Vision Research Phantom v-Series cameras with a single
connection, plus a camera control unit.
Aframe 2.0 Moves Video Assets Through the Cloud to NLEs
Aframe 2.0 cloud-based platform provides a quicker means of moving 
video content into NLEs, including Panasonic AVC integration, a new
user interface and an API Library.
Method Studios Appoints New President and CTO
Method Studios welcomes Christian Kubsch as President, overseeing 
the main base in LA and global operations, with Darin Grant as Chief
Technology Officer. Both bring extensive experience.
Digistor Boosts Training Opportunities for Content Creators
Digital media integration specialist Digistor has expanded its Sydney 
Training Centre, led by a new manager and running software courses
for editors and 3D and motion graphics artists.
Schneider Filters Capture Desert Skies on Breaking Bad
DP Michael Slovis ACS shoots the TV series ‘Breaking Bad’ in New 
Mexico, using Schneider filters to help define the show’s distinctive
desert skies.
Convergent Design Odyssey7 Joins Recorder & Monitor
Convergent Design Odyssey7 and 7Q are 7.7” OLED monitors with complete 
professional broadcast and cinematography recording functions.
OptiTrack Prime 17W Captures High-Resolution Motion Data
The OptiTrack Prime 17W motion capture and tracking camera has a 1.7 
megapixels sensor and a wide-angle field of view, to simultaneously track
body and finger data.
Geomerics Illuminates Games with Enlighten Middleware
Geomerics, lighting middleware developer for games, has upgraded 
their product Enlighten to integrate into workflows designed for a
broader range of platforms.
Matrox Monarch HD Streams and Records Live Video
Matrox Video is to show the Matrox Monarch HD, a video streaming 
and recording device that simultaneously streams live events and
records to Blu-ray for editing, at NAB 2013.
Boxx TV’s New Zenith Delivers Airborne HD SDI Video
Boxx TV prepares to demonstrate a new lightweight zenith transmitter 
on a remote-controlled helicopter for airborne filming in HD at NAB 2013
Aspera & UFC Deliver Fight Content via Cloud Transfers
UFC and Aspera are speeding up delivery of promotional and fight 
event content to TV, online and mobile devices for fans and distributors
through Amazon Web Services.
Autodesk 3ds Max 2014 Upgrades Particle Flow System
Autodesk 3ds Max 2014 has updated 3D animation for motion graphics, VFX, 
visualisation and game development. Viewport playback for complex scenes
has been optimised.
Autodesk Maya 2014 Powers Up Scene Assembly & Paint FX
Autodesk Maya 2014 has updated its display system, modelling 
workflows and complex data handling. The Maya DX11Shader now
uses real-time, controllable shader effects.
Sony F65 Catches Sydney’s Birds of Tokyo
Early in 2013, DP Callan Green in Sydney completed the shoot on a music 
video project for Australian band Birds of Tokyo called ‘Lanterns’, using his
Sony F65 4K camera.
Faceware Retargeter 4.0 Automates Facial Motion Capture
Faceware Technologies Retargeter 4.0 helps animators automating more of the 
facial motion capture process, rapidly creating motion capture from video.
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Puts Medicine in Motion
Medical animation companies are finding Toon Boom Stroyboard software 
is a fast accurate way to refine projects with clients, and even to produce
entire projects.
Scruffy.tv Pushes ‘Hero Punk’ from Set to Post on Blackmagic
Building up a full network of online content during 2013, Scruffy.tv 
is now working on post for ‘Hero Punk’, first of a trilogy of sci-fi thrillers
shot on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
American Zoetrope & SPY Develop ProRes Resolve Workflow
Roman Coppola’s new film ‘A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III’ 
was a chance to develop an calibrated ProRes grading workflow between
American Zoetrope and SPY.
FSM Joins Fun & Games for Kellogg’s Coco Pops
The visual effects team at FSM took their 3D camera down to macro 
level to join some Kellogg’s Coco Pops engaging in a game of CG milk
Marco Polo.
Harmonic Transcoding Service Converts Video in the Cloud
Harmonic’s ProMedia Carbon MP is cloud-based transcoding service that 
enables content creators to quickly convert broadcast-quality video to
almost any standard media format.
Sony PlayStation4 Receives Wide Software & SDK Support
Software partners supporting the new Sony PlayStation4 are NVIDIA 
PhysX and APEX SDKs, Geomerics lighting, xaitment artificial intelligence
and Allegorithmic ‘s texturing engine.
