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Animation Meets Post with Sixty40@Heckler AWARD-WINNING ANIMATION company Sixty40 is working alongside the 2012 Hotshop Awards post production company of the year, Heckler. The new collaboration has already begun delivering work from the headquarters at the former Paramount Pictures Building in Surry Hills, Sydney. The new arrangement enables a significant expansion in the creative services offered by both houses. Sixty40’s Creative Director, Mark Simpson, said, “After celebrating 12 years of building solid business, this move allows Sixty40 to extend it’s ability to not only produce beautiful animation, but to do so with the attention to detail, sheer processing power and creative vision that Heckler has become renowned for.” The team driving the alliance will include, amongst others, Heckler’s Producer Bonnie Law and Executive Producer Will Alexander, who said he had always been a huge fan. “When this opportunity presented itself I jumped in with both feet,” Alexander said. “Sixty40 have an amazingly diverse range of styles and techniques and is world class in character animation and content creation. It’s an exciting new partnership and I can’t wait to start delivering some next level animation.” Projects already include an animated short film for Qantas via Houston that screened at the recent Qantas birthday gala event and the forthcoming Incredibly Short Film Festival (ISFF). The ISFF is a curated
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“The idea of Sixty40’s character animation and content creation experience for agencies combined with Heckler’s resources, studio and team is exhilarating,” Simpson said. “From now on, the question of going overseas for world-class character design and animation is over. We are combining local and international character designers and directors with the best production facility in Australia. Sixty40@Heckler. Done.” Visit www.sixty40.com and http://heckler.tv
AVID HAS UNVEILED MEDIA Composer 7, featuring accelerated and simplified file-based workflows including optimised HD delivery from highres source material and automated media operations.
AUTODESK, INC. ANNOUNCED AN enterprise technology agreement
Media Composer 7 offers a wide array of key new features, including: AMA media management — Media linked via Avid Media Access (AMA) now benefits from the complete suite of media management tools formerly reserved for native Avid media. FrameFlex tool and LUT support — Enables editors to ingest 2K, 4K, and 5K media with real-time colour space conversion and deliver content directly to HD.
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The ISFF made its international debut at the Vivid Festival. It will then be projected in, on and around buildings in Kings Cross. Following that, The ISFF will screen as part of PauseFest Croatia: a digital media conference at which Simpson is presenting and moderating.
Autodesk, Technicolor Sign Enterprise Technology Agreement
In addition, as a key component of the Avid Everywhere vision, the new release offers Interplay Sphere for Mac support, extending real-time production everywhere.
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festival of looping animation from around the globe accompanied by live looping audio performed in situ by Australian recording artists.
with Technicolor at this year’s National Association of Broadcaster’s (NAB) Show in Las Vegas. The deal includes flexible global access to a broad range of Autodesk’s technology portfolio to help meet Technicolor’s needs, as well as global priority support and consulting services. Claude Gagnon, President, Technicolor Creative Services stated, “This agreement helps Technicolor and MPC provide our customers, artists and engineers the opportunity to work with their favourite tools and allow more creative freedom and control over the production cycle.”
Master Audio Fader — Enables editors to control overall program volume and insert plug-ins for compression, equalisation, and compliance metering.
Autodesk installed the majority of the technology earlier this year, updating the existing Technicolor Digital Intermediate suite. Technicolor now has access to a wide variety of Autodesk products, ranging from Autodesk Maya to the Autodesk AutoCAD family of products and Autodesk Vault products, in addition to the Autodesk Creative Finishing technology Autodesk Flame Premium.
Media Composer 7 will be available from Avid resellers worldwide starting in June 2013.
Additionally, Autodesk Flame Premium is available to artists or colourists in the worldwide Technicolor and Digital Production network.
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