Asia-Pacific News

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 [...]

Academy Award winning writer/director, Jane Campion called upon respected feature film colourist, Olivier Fontenay, to work on her latest creation, Top of the Lake – Campion’s first television production in over 20 years. Their creative collaboration dates back over a decade. Fontenay and Campion have shared the journey through the progression from film to Digital [...]

Based in Canberra, Australia, Bearcage provides the full gamut of film, video, interactive and television production services to clients in television, film, advertising and government. In 2012, Bearcage commenced work on The Story of Australia, the first ever Australian co-production with CCTV’s documentary channel; completed New Zealand From Above, a new series co-produced with Gebrüder [...]

Australian distributor Future Reality has announced the establishment of its Adobe Demonstration Laboratory to support the launch of the Adobe Anywhere collaborative workflow platform and new Adobe video tools.“Our laboratory in Lane Cove, Sydney, has been running as the only Adobe Anywhere pilot site in this region with multiple workstations configured with Adobe software,” said [...]

Sydney-based Design and production house Engine has moved to new office space in Foster Street, Surry Hills. Engine MD Calvin Gardiner said, “We’re excited to announce that we’ve finally settled in to our new office in Surry Hills. We’ve seen a major evolution in our creative offering over the past few years, developing our commercial, [...]

Australian broadcast duplication and multimedia specialist, FATS Digital has bolstered its video format conversion services with the upgrade of its Snell Alchemist PH.C HD standards converter to Version 7.As part of the Version 7 software upgrade, FATS has opted to add processing of Dolby surround sound audio, which includes both encoding and decoding of Dolby [...]

In its latest spot for Toyota Prius via Hakuhodo Malaysia and PRS Films, Cutting Edge created a series of stunning virtual cities and driven a CG Toyota Prius from one end to the other. With the Prius taking centre stage, this meticulously crafted journey highlights the fuel efficiency and the environmental pedigree of the vehicle. [...]

Storm FX, a leader in providing design, modelling and finishing solutions and services, has announced the launch of their Technology Breakfast Workshop Series commencing in March 2013. With a distinguished line-up of Engineers presenting from leading technology companies such as Arista, EMC, Citrix, VMware, FusionIO, Spectralogic, Xenon and more, these workshops will offer a unique [...]

ASSIMILATE, the provider of DI and dailies tools for digital cinema, episodic television, commercials and spot tools has announced the appointment of Whiteways Holdings Pte, Ltd as exclusive distributor for its SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab product lines in South Asia and South East Asia. Whiteways will work with ASSIMILATE’s existing resellers and will also appoint [...]

It took a world first behind the scenes workflow in order for The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey to become the first large scale wide release feature film to be exhibited in 48 frames per second.Park Road Post General Manager Cameron Harland says, together with SGO Mistika, it took two and a half years of [...]