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Transcolor Boosts Rental Stock with More Robe

Transcolor Boosts Rental Stock with More Robe

Transcolor’s Szymon Kosicki

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

Projection Designer Camilla Tassi Receives 2022 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship from The Burry Fredrik Foundation

Camilla Tassi

The Burry Fredrik Foundation has announced David Geffen School of Drama Projection Designer Camilla Tassi as the recipient of the 2022 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship and its $25,000 award. Tassi is currently pursuing an MFA in Projection Design with Wendall Harrington at the David Geffen School of Drama’s Design Department.Read More »Projection Designer Camilla Tassi Receives 2022 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship from The Burry Fredrik Foundation

Vectorworks Releases Unity-based 3D Model Viewing Technology with Version 2022 Service Pack 3

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

Clifford Michael Spulock Adds Sparkle to Kinky Boots with Chauvet Professional

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 Join Forces to Open xR STAGE TOKYO

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:

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ADJ Lighting Brings Unique Underground Jump Park to Life with Color and Movement

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

ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition

There is an almost mystical power to idioms. Like some secret shared within a tightly knit circle of friends, these impossible-to-translate words and phrases endow a language with its distinct character – one that only those immersed in its culture can fully appreciate. “Popevka,” is such a word in Slovenian. A form of music interwoven tightly around this nation’s folk traditions; its deepest meaning evaporates once it’s decoupled from its cultural roots. Lighting Designer, Crt Birsa can’t translate the power of Popevka into words, but he did a brilliant job conveying it in light recently when he lit a TV program of that name using his ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 and a PC Wing, despite having to balance time and deadline issues.Read More »ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition