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London facilities take Discreet kit
Three major London post companies have upgraded their facilities with the purchase of Discreet kit. Among the orders are the first installations of the manufacturer's new Smoke and Flame on the SGI Tezro workstation. Discreet did not reveal how much the deals are worth, writes ...
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Bubble TV finds jobs from start
Sound mixer Chris Phinikas' new London audio facility, Bubble TV , has opened its doors with a string of jobs already underway.
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One hires animators
One Post has taken on two 3D animators for its CGI operations. Duncan McWilliams joins One from The Hive, where he worked on projects for AOL, Bloomberg and Disney. Before The Hive, McWilliams worked at DigM Digital Media and as a freelance graphic designer. Also joining is Michiel de Kraker, ...
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M2 to leave camden
M2 Television has abandoned its Camden branch and moved all the kit and staff to its Soho headquarters. The move will be completed within the next four weeks. Although the two branches currently operate as separate companies, M2 says that no redundancies are planned and the majority of staff will ...
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Sanctuary found
Andy Matthews has joined Sanctuary Post's creative team as senior editor/project manager. Matthews has 20 years' experience in television and film production, having started out on TV show The Tube. His credits also include The Top 100 programmes for ...
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BAFTA wins for BBC
The BBC's The Darkhouse , an interactive radio drama, has picked up the award in the technical innovation category at the 2003 Bafta Interactive Awards. The drama has also been adapted for the web. The BBC was also nominated for its ...
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Molinare finishes Mozart work
Molinare has completed CG and animation work on a series of promos for BBC2 to highlight a season of programmes celebrating the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The series includes a three-part drama, concerts and interactive content across the BBC. Work done by Molinare includes a specially made score that ...
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Skaramoosh animates bats
Skaramoosh has completed 3D animation and compositing on Superbat for Oxford Film and Television and Gedeon Television. The sequence done by Skaramoosh shows a bat chasing a mosquito ending in a Matrix-style time splice to illustrate how bats use sonar to detect their prey. 3D animation for the sequence was ...
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The Hive brings T-rex to life
The Hive has animated a tyrannosaurus rex in X-ray form for BBC2's Horizon science strand, which explores new research casting the dinosaur in a new light. T-rex: Warrior or Wimp? is a 50-minute programme produced and directed by Johanna Gibbon at the BBC's science department. ...
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Foundry invents open VFX program
London-based company The Foundry has blown the visual effects market wide open with the development of a software program that will allow editors and compositors to use 'plug-in' visual effects from any company on any finishing system, writes Farah Jifri.
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Millar puts£4m into Whitfield St Studios
Robin Millar, the new owner of London facility the Whitfield Street Studios (see Broadcast, 13.2.04), is investing around£4m to get the facility up and running, writesFarah Jifri.
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Luckwell given trade body role
Mike Luckwell has been appointed chairman of a new post-production industry association being set up by the UK Film Council. The as-yet-unnamed body will represent and promote the UK post-production industry at home and abroad.
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Flaxton joins hd bill
Director and DoP Terry Flaxton has been added to the bill for next week's Harnessing High Definition conference. The multi-award-winning film-maker, one of the first people in the world to shoot a feature film on videotape, has been involved in a number of HD projects including Past Present Future Imperfect ...
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Sale for Sony kit
Surrey-based broadcast services company Presteigne Broadcast Hire is the first customer to buy Sony's new wireless camera systems. Presteigne took delivery of the WLL-RX55 wireless camera receiver and CA55 wireless camera transmitter from Sony last week. Presteigne already has a number of wireless camera systems from other manufacturers such as ...
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MBO interest in alias
Computer hardware manufacturer SGI is in negotiations to sell its 3D division, Alias, to an MBO team. The deal, which will be done with backing from a private equity investment firm, will see the existing management team and organisation structure remain as it is under new ownership. Alias did not ...
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Minicams launched
Prime Television has launched two minicams, which are the result of three years of development. They are a compact three-chip, pan and tilt camera and the Matchstick Minicam. The pan and tilt camera avoids the need for ARC (aspect ratio conversion) before widescreen broadcast. The minicam provides true 16:9 widescreen ...
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Lip Sync posts great escapes
Lip Sync Post has completed the animated titles for 7 x 30-minute series Escape From? for Five. Produced by 3BM the series is part of a larger 14-programme commission, the other seven being Missions, a series on great missions in the 21st century. ...
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Two firms finish Sky's Miriam
London Post and The TV Set have post-produced There's Something About Miriam a 6 x 60-minute series for Sky One. The series was onlined and graded using Symphony with Sapphire FX by Blue Turtle's Graham Carr at London Post with series director Dominic Bowls. Carr ...
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Jump brands UK's Eurovision
Jump has done the branding for Eurovision Making Your Mind Up! the live television competition to find the UK's Eurovision entry for 2004. Jump's Stephen Smith designed the programme logo while senior designer Keith Livingstone created the opening titles using specially shot footage which was ...
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Telemagination MD quits to go freelance
Marion Edwards, managing director of animation house Telemagination, is leaving the company after seven years. Edwards, who is currently executive producing a second series of The Cramp Twins for Cartoon Network, will leave in mid-March to set up as a freelance producer and animation consultant. ...