When DAER Nightclub opened at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL in late 2019, the high-profile club wowed guests with an eye-catching aesthetic that included a striking lighting and video design by SJ Lighting. Earlier this year, the leading production design firm updated the club’s dancefloor lighting rig with Fuze SFX™ LED Spot FX luminaires from Elation Professional.Read More »SJ Lighting Updates DAER Nightclub Lighting with Hybrid Fuze SFX LED Movers
(L to R) Rob Garvie from NBC Universal; Astera’s head of development, technical service, and product management, Simon Canins; and BSC’s Laurie Rose.
Wireless LED lighting manufacturer Astera collected the prestigious 2022 Bert Easey Technical Award which was presented at a gala event organized by the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, at the end of February.Read More »Astera Wins 2022 Bert Easey Technical Award
Leading Polish lighting and production rental company Transcolor has invested in new Robe moving lights and remained busy throughout the pandemic with its five full-size studios and rehearsal rooms which have been utilized for television and movie productions, promo and advertising shoots and other assorted events. Two of the studios are among the largest in Warsaw, and these have continued with regular TV productions and clients as well as hosting a range of new clients producing digital and streamed events.Read More »Transcolor Boosts Rental Stock with More Robe
Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third service pack for the Vectorworks 2022 product line focused on improvements to Vectorworks Cloud Services for all design customers. Other highlights include new storage integrations with Vectorworks Cloud, updates to Datasmith file exchange for a direct link to Twinmotion and support for .glTF within the MVR export from Vectorworks Spotlight.Read More »Vectorworks Releases Unity-based 3D Model Viewing Technology with Version 2022 Service Pack 3
Recently, the Slow Burn Theatre Company produced the Cindy Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. With the show’s great music, memorable lines, colorful costumes, and engaging sets, Kinky Boots checks a lot of boxes for musical theater fans. There is something more to this story about a drag queen and a struggling shoe factory owner that keeps audiences coming back; it’s a magnetism powered by a sense of hope and self-affirmation, neither of which ever grows old. Contributing to this warm, emotional aura in Slow Burn’s production of the show was an engaging Clifford Michael Spulock lighting design that featured Chauvet Professional Maverick, Rogue, and COLORado fixtures.Read More »Clifford Michael Spulock Adds Sparkle to Kinky Boots with Chauvet Professional
ROE Visual and disguise announce the opening of their xR STAGE TOKYO—a virtual production showroom, powered by ROE Visual and disguise. Located at ROE Visual Japan’s premises in Hatchobori, xR STAGE TOKYO offers visitors the opportunity to get an up-close experience with virtual production technology and in-camera VFX within an LED volume.
In-camera VFX is a technique that uses real-time compositing of CG backgrounds on an LED wall. The method is currently used in films, TV commercials, and music videos and is now expanding to live streaming and corporate online presentations. Virtual Production workflows are made possible by disguise’s award-winning extended reality (xR) technology. disguise’s xR workflow is already powering LED stages in over 300 locations in over 45 countries, many of which are made up of ROE Visual LED panels.
Due to disguise’s reliable and seamless xR workflow, coupled with the quality of LED offered by ROE Visual, this technology is used worldwide and is an integral part of hundreds of productions. See this technology in action in ROE Visual’s showreel:
A variety of ADJ fixtures have been utilized at a new jump park attraction in The Netherlands built in a natural underground cave. Featuring both LED-powered static washes and moving head spots, the lighting installation fills the unique space with vibrant swathes of saturated color and moving gobo projections. With full DMX control from ADJ’s tablet-based Airstream DMX Pro App, operators of the attraction have the ability to easily alter both the color scheme and intensity of the lighting effects to create the right atmosphere for the different public sessions and private parties hosted at the park.Read More »ADJ Lighting Brings Unique Underground Jump Park to Life with Color and Movement