52 Saturday 14.09.13 theibcdaily Storyboarding with Flix
The Foundry By Carolyn Giardina
The Foundry is showing Flix, a web-based visual story development tool designed to allow creative collaborators including directors, editors, cinematographers, storyboard and pre-viz artists to work together in one place. Before The Foundry took over commercial development earlier this year, Flix was developed as an in-house tool at visual effects company
Sony Pictures Imageworks. The two companies previously teamed to commercialise Katana in 2011.
Flix has been in use at Imageworks since 2008 and has been used on more than 15 projects.
Said Genndy Tartakovsky,
director of Hotel Transylvania and Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming Popeye: “Having a tool like Flix was extremely helpful as it allowed me to quickly convey my creative vision to all of the key departments.”
“Bringing Flix into The
A flick of the wrist: A zombie villager meets his pitchfork maker in Hotel Transylvania, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
Anamorphics give digital personality Cooke Optics
By David Fox Cooke is introducing a range of seven Anamorphic/i lenses: 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm and 135mm – all T2.3. “There’s a huge demand for anamorphics. We showed them for the first time at NAB in April; the response was incredible. We have orders stretching long into the future,” said Les Zellan, chairman and owner, Cooke Optics.
The company is working with
Thales Angénieux (11.F34) to ensure that both their ranges of anamorphic lenses are compatible. “Cooke primes and Angénieux zooms have always complemented each other in terms of look and colour. They are frequently used together on feature films,” said Zellan. The Angénieux anamorphic zooms, starting with a 56- 152mm T4, will have a unique optical design combining spherical and cylindrical elements in the same group to deliver exceptional sharpness and low distortion. “The entire line will perfectly match with the new Cooke primes and will be
friendly, usable, compact and lightweight,” said Pierre Andurand, CEO and president, Thales Angénieux. Both ranges will be available in 2014. Cooke has also extended its miniS4/i range to include 40mm, 65mm and 135mm focal lengths, with a 21mm also in development. This will grow the range to 10 lenses (the S4/i range has 18 lenses from 12mm to 300mm). The miniS4/i lenses are all T2.8 (compared to the T2 of the S4/i and T1.4 of the 5/i range), which makes them
considerably less expensive. “The real thing you are paying
Foundry’s portfolio is another step forward and gives us a tool that services another key area of the production pipeline,” said Bill Collis, CEO of The Foundry. “It’s really exciting for us because it brings in new types of users outside of the VFX sphere such as directors and producers. We are pleased to have been able to take innovative technology developed at a studio and once again work on the product to make it accessible to a much wider audience,” Collis added. Flix has already been adopted by Warner Bros. Animation and is being tested at other studios and facilities. 7.B13
for is speed. The faster the lens, the higher the price, and with the increasing speed of cameras, T2.8 is often fast enough,” said Zellan. 11.D10
In for a long stretch: The 40mm is one of the first of Cooke’s new Anamorphic/i range to be demonstrated
LED location lighting launched
Canara Lighting
By David Fox Canara has introduced a new 60W LED ENG Kit that comes in a wheeled carry case consisting of a set of three lighting fixtures, stands, 4-leaf barn doors and drivers with dimming from 0 to 100%. It is available in both 5600K and 3200K colour temperature, both with a CRI above 90, outputting 1300 Lux at two metres (equivalent to a 300W Halogen lamp), with a fixed beam angle of 38°. Each unit weighs 1.92kg and is
powered by either 100-240v AC or via a battery-operated option with 90 minutes backup. 11.F71
Beaming in: Canara’s latest 60W LED Fresnel Spotlight
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