Launched by The One Club four years ago, Creative Week is a well-rounded attempt to showcase “the intersection of advertising, innovation and creative thinking.” It’s a big event – last year’s attracted some 5000 folks – and attracts advertising creatives, designers, filmmakers and more. Something to keep track of, as the show’s awards are growing in prestige for the winners. Arch New Yorker Alec Baldwin was the MC at the awards show this past Friday…
Galaxy 61 Delivers Show Open For VH1’s New Season Of ‘The Fabulous Life’
Brooklyn-based Galaxy 61 seems like they offer it all — 3D animation, vfx, fluid simulation, previz & animatics, and even a bit of stereoscopic 3D production. Their lux intro to the new season of ‘The Fabulous Life’ is pretty fabulous itself, as golden cherries splash into a martini glass — there’s that fluid simulation — and all the rest, which you can see by clicking the video link…
ARRI CSC Appoints Chris MacKarell as Digital Workflow Manager
ARRI CSC is the rental equipment and services end of the famed Munich-based camera manufacturer. Recent hire Chris MacKarell most recently honed his skills as a senior engineer and workflow specialist at Technicolor New York…
ARRI CSC Appoints Chris MacKarell as Digital Workflow Manager
ARRI CSC is the rental equipment and services end of the famed Munich-based camera manufacturer. Recent hire Chris MacKarell most recently honed his skills as a senior engineer and workflow specialist at Technicolor New York…
Most Newsworthy Tech of 2013
NYCPPNEWS takes a look at the most newsworthy – heck, just plain cool – new gear and software delivered in 2013.
Vimeo Ups Its Game, Gives Pro Service 1TB Storage and Unlimited Playback
Even while a federal judge recently ruled that Capitol Records, EMI, and other record companies can proceed with their lawsuit against Vimeo for posting videos that used the Beatles, Radiohead et. al. to lipsync to, the Pew Research Center reported that now nearly a third of all U.S. Internet users have posted videos online to sites like Vimeo and YouTube, up from only 14-percent four years ago. Now, Vimeo ups the ante with 1TB storage and unlimited HD playback for its Pro accounts…
Adobe Creative Cloud at IBC – Do Updates Still Matter?
With its IBC-timed announcement of some 150 upgrades to the cloud version of that bedrock app collection for motion artists, Adobe Creative Suite CC shows it can mature at a regular clip. But what does it mean to announce upgrades when the whole idea was for this need to disappear…?
Week in Review No 49: 4K Cameras Beget 4K TVs and Autodesk’s 90 Day License
In Week in Review No. 49, check out some of the trends developing as the 4K camera market heats up with some aggressive pricing from Sony for their well-received 4K cameras, the F5 and F55. You’ll also read about the first 4K TVs from major manufacturers…
Week in Review No. 48: Losing Prints, Sandy Shooting Changes, Pi for Hula Post
Week in Review No. 48 checks into the considerable problem facing our photochemical film heritage as we move into the all-things-digital projection era, what changes Superstorm Sandy hath wrought, and to which ends of the earth Hula Post went to in order to set up edit bays for post on Ang Lee’s ‘Pi’.
Week in Review No. 47: No Sets, Padcasting Around, Magno Makes Music
In Week in Review No. 47, we take a look at Josh Apter (of Manhattan Edit Workshop fame) and his attempt to turn an iPad into the piece of gear you’ll want to take along for that next breaking news interview; how 3D software virtualizes production, and…