Origami Digital Expands Facility with Move to New Location
Visual effects company Origami Digital recently moved in to a new location near the Hawthorne Airport. The 8,000-square-foot building includes an expanded performance-capture stage, a large studio for the artists and state-of-the-art infrastructure. “We’ve always had a full-service approach to our work, and in the new space we can offer the whole range of... »
Crash+Sues opens CS Films
Award-wining commercial production company Crash+Sues recently opened CS Films – a Minneapolis-based post house dedicated to the independent filmmakers. For its first project, the company provided color correction, online editing and finishing for writer/director Matt Osterman’s debut feature, the supernatural thriller Phasma Ex Machina. “This project was a great opportunity for CS Films to... »
I.E. Effects Boosts Stereo 3D Pipeline with Isilon Storage
I.E. Effects has installed an Isilon IQ6000x cluster storage system at its Culver City location. With several large stereoscopic projects currently active, the Isilon system expands the company’s ability to manage the data and throughput requirements of multiple jobs. For clients this means increased efficiency and reliability for demanding stereo 3D projects. The clustered... »
740 Sound Design Expands
740 Sound Design has opened a new audio postproduction facility and added mixing to its sound design services. The expansion enables the company to move into television, digital media and select documentary films in addition to the commercial work it has done for a decade. The facility is also enabling 740, which previously shared... »
Electric Picture Solutions Opens Westside Facility
Electric Picture Solutions’ new Santa Monica Facility For 15 years Electric Picture Solutions (EPS) has been catering to the editorial needs of Los Angeles’ motion-picture and television studios and production companies, with devoted customers traveling to the EPS headquarters in Studio City as well as to its sister branch in nearby Burbank. Now, clients... »
Lightiron Debuts New L.A. Post Facility
Lightiron Digital has launched in Los Angeles, offering a complete range of file-based postproduction services for film, television, web and advertising clients. Founded by brothers Michael and Peter Cioni, the company is composed of two divisions—Ironwork, providing such services as dailies processing for tape and tapeless media, offline and online editorial, data conform and... »
Sony Pictures Entertainment Opens New DI Facility
Sony Pictures Entertainment recently opened Colorworks—a full-service DI facility on its Culver City lot. The 14,000 square-foot facility housed in the studio’s Stage 6, (formerly a Technicolor facility), offers realtime, 4K and stereoscopic 3D processing, catering to feature film and TV episodic work. »
SonicPool’s “Superior” Service
Since opening its new Lake Superior Room earlier this year, Hollywood-based post facility, SonicPool has seen a steady stream of work ranging from independent feature films, and TV shows to commercials. The Lake Superior Room is built around an Avid DS/ Symphony Nitris Dual-Boot system with 15 terabytes of storage, which allows editors to... »
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Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) has an amiable disposition that belies the fact that it’s best to stay out of his path. You see he’s... »
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The enduring image of Queen Victoria, whose reign dominated the bulk of the 19th century, is of a benevolent, elderly grandmother. Though she was... »