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Pepper spices up ITV1's Marple
Pepper has completed VFX work on the latest incarnation of OAP sleuth Miss Marple. Senior VFX artist Jamie Russell transformed summer scenes to a winter setting by adding backgrounds and winter mist. He also took Paddington station back to the 1930s by replacing modern-day elements with footage of gas lamps, ...
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ITV1 idents get festive makeover
The Hive has created new graphics for the ITV1 festive season. The network logo's blue and yellow blocks transform to become animated 'fairy-light characters' that flick around the screen. The CGI images will be incorporated into all the channel's idents and break bumpers throughout the Christmas period. Creative director Phil ...
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Square Zero sets up The Heist
Square Zero has produced animated titles for The Heist for Five and Windfall Films. The programme follows five ex-cons as they attempt to plan and execute three perfect crimes. The first challenge is to steal a painting while it is being exhibited. Animator Olly Tyler ...
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Pockett wins gold
Branding agency English & Pockett won gold at this year's Promax Asia in Singapore for its logo design and on-screen identity package for a channel in Thailand. English & Pockett created an 'Expect the Unexpected' theme with images that were 'at odds with conventional dimensions'.
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Lime Takes goacher
M2-backed CGI company Lime has poached another member from The Hive. Lightwave operator Julie Goacher is the fifth person to make the move from the VTR subsidiary. Goacher starts at the end of December after one month's gardening leave. The other members to join Lime from The Hive were Nathan ...
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Cut & Run Goes to NY
London and Los Angeles-based editing company Cut and Run is to open an office in New York's SoHo. The office will be led by Chuck Willis, formerly of Crew Cuts. It will offer creative services including graphics, visual effects and compositing. 'We are opening Cut and Run NY because we ...
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China Blue MD takes control
China Blue managing director David Hamilton-Smith, who is also the chairman of audio association APRS, has regained a controlling share of the audio company after his sleeping partner, The Sound Company managing director Geoff Oliver, returned 41% of China Blue's shares.
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Bottletop freezes Bernard's time
Bottletop, the Nottingham-based design company, has created titles and special effects for Granada's Bernard. The children's show focuses on Bernard , a boy who is able to freeze time with an antique pocket watch. Bottletop designers John Hunt, Dave ...
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Sanctuary helps Band Aid single
Sanctuary Post has finished the HD post-production on the Band Aid 20 promo and documentary for Initial. Director Geoff Wonfor, Initial managing director Malcolm Gerrie and Sanctuary Post offline editor Andy Matthews, who collaborated on the original in 1984, were reunited to work on the ...
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Audio Suite adds GFX
Birmingham-based The Audio Suite has opened a graphics (GFX) boutique, Eight Eyed Sea Bass, and is looking to expand further next year.
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M2 Buys Root6 tool
M2, Nats, The Mill and Sanctuary Post have all recently bought workflow tool ContentAgent from Root6 Technology. ContentAgent is used in the capturing, converting and distributing of compressed digital files. Enteraction TV has taken a second copy for use on Thomas Cook TV.
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NewsElstree rent row settled
The rent row over Elstree Studios has been settled paving the way for fresh bids for the world-famous studios.
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NewsLittle Britain dominates RTS craft awards
The team behind hit BBC comedy Little Britain continued its award-ceremony domination last night picking up three RTS Craft and Design awards.
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Darkhorse FX opens
Three former BBC Design employees have opened a new vfx company in Bristol. Darkhouse FX is owned by broadcast designer Jean Cramond and digital effects designers Craig Higgins and Adrian Woodward. They have worked on projects including the award-winning Monsters We Met and ...
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Frontier's great composers
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats for Channel 4. In the 4 x 50-minute series, made by Tiger Aspect, composer Howard Goodall studies the musicians who dominated the 20th-century by fusing classical and popular music. The series was onlined and ...
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Blue finishes Tim Marlow series
Blue has completed the online and audio post on Tim Marlow's Judgement Day. The Seventh Art-produced series explores how ideas of life after death have been represented in art throughout history. The first episode focuses on judgement after death, from ancient Egypt and Buddhist ...
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Goldcrest adds to TV facilities
Feature film facility Goldcrest Post is expanding its broadcast capacity, spending up to£200,000 as it pursues managing director Peter Joly's policy of diversification.
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Manchester's Flix acquires Avid Nitris HD
Manchester edit house Flix Facilities is to invest£100,000 in new equipment including an Avid DS Nitris HD.
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Absolute Flame hire
Absolute Post has appointed James Allen as a senior Flame artist. He joins from Glassworks. Allen has worked with directors Chris Cunningham and Will van der Vluht as a Flame operator.
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C4's mobile games
Channel 4 has launched a mobile phone gaming service through 4Interactive, entering a Eu100m (£70m) market. Games are downloaded through the C4 website for£4.50 each. Research has suggested that the downloadable Java games market could generate revenues of up to $2bn (£1.08bn) by 2008. C4 has teamed up with European ...