Tech notes of note

Visual effects software developer The Foundry released Katana 1., a peek development and lighting tool designed to replace the standard CG pipeline getting an adaptable recipe-based resource workflow. Together using this release, Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Miracle purchased a website license of Katana to boost its production pipeline across its ILM and Lucasfilm companies. ILM joins other visual effects the likes of a Katana site license holder. Katana allows improving of assets once shots are actually happening the talking about of lighting set-ups, for instance edits and overrides, between shots and sequences permits using multiple renderers and allows shot-specific modification of assets to finish up area of the lighting recipe for shots."We anticipate further integrating Katana into our rigorous pipeline," mentioned ILM vfx supervisor John Knoll. "Within the this past year we now have labored with while using Foundry delivering feedback which we wish Katana being for people. They've required in therefore we hold the production-proven technology we would like without any large internal engineering effort." * * * The Meduza Titan, suggested since the first fully controlled, lightweight, 3d precision single HD camera with 1080p dual sensors, launched on March. 31. It absolutely was created by Meduza systems for stereoscopic TV production. The announcement is created by Chris Cary, Boss of 3d Visual Companies, the U.K. parent company of Meduza Systems. Featuring two 1080p CMOS sensors, Titan is able to do frame rates from 24 to 120 fps in 10 bit and boasts fully motorized inter-axial (the space involving the contacts) and convergence. It's listed at $55,000 and might be bought with either C mount or perhaps the new Meduza mount for your Meduza matched up up pair prime lens series. It opened up now within the Creatasphere exposition in La * * * Red-colored-colored Giant has placed a few its color design programs - Colorista and LUT Buddy - inside the color production pipeline of production house Stargate Art galleries, which gives film and TV production and publish services employed by such shows as ABC's "Pan Am" and "Revenge," and AMC's "The Walking Dead." "Television production in Hollywood is rapidly shifting into really a component film workflow, by which images are taken and shipped in the logarithmic color space," mentioned Stargate vfx supervisor Chris Martin. "What this implies for Stargate Art galleries is, we must have effective tools outfitted to deal with numerous color workflows. Red-colored-colored Giant fits that bill for people perfectly." * * * Toronto effects boutique Soho VFX licensed 100 seats of Southpaw Technology's resource management system Tactic to streamline production workflow, communications and task management around the current, undisclosed project. Founded in 2002, Soho has continuously grown, contributing to greater than 50 feature film and tv productions, including "The Truly Amazing Four," "X-Males Roots: Wolverine" and "Rise in the Planet in the Apes." Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com