Industry-voted awards are always a great endorsement for any brand or product, so Astera is delighted to announce that its popular Titan Tube is a 2021 Pro Moviemaker Gear of The Year winner in the Lighting Innovation category.Read More »Astera Titan Tube Wins Third Major Industry Award
As part of the November Lichtfestival (Light Festival) in Ghent, Belgium, artist Michael Langeder created an exhibit that appeared to set the tower of St. Nicholas Church in the city center ablaze in simulated flames. The conflagration looked so authentic, it prompted calls to the fire brigade. John & Jane Premium Technical Event Support provided the design team with an array of Chauvet Professional fixtures.
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The long-awaited reopening of the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Hall of Ancient Egypt took place on November 20, 2021 and it truly is a renovation fit for a Pharaoh. The completely re-imagined 12,500-square-foot space opened with the world premiere of a special exhibition entitled Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs, offering an immersive experience like none other outside of Egypt itself.Read More »Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Hall of Ancient Egypt Illuminated with elektraLite Stingray Minis
Based on the 1985 blockbuster film and pop culture phenomenon, Back to the Future: The Musical, arrived in London’s West End last year. The show’s video elements, produced by award-winning video design and production studio FRAY Studio, and its system design, created by Ammonite, delivered a demonstration of how cutting-edge technology can transform the ordinary setup of a show and create an expansive, fantastical world through the use of LED screens, powered by Brompton Technology processing.Read More »Brompton Technology Powers LED Setup of West End Production Back to the Future: The Musical
Running from November 26 to December 4, 2021, the Festival of Orchestra has concluded successfully with six night concerts by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) at the Adelaide Showground, located in southern Australia. Featuring ROE Visual Outdoor LED panels and technically supported by Novatech Creative Event Technology, the ASO created a unique experience for all visitors. The ASO is South Australia’s largest performing arts organization, established in 1936.Read More »ROE Visual Assists Inaugural Festival of Orchestra in Australia
NYU Tisch School of the Arts has received a major gift from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, founded by Mellody Hobson and her husband, filmmaker George Lucas. The funds will establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts, an academic and production institute, which will include the new Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, and support for student scholarships.
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Macroblock Symposium 2021 was held online on December 15. Through cooperation with Moonshine Animation, they used XR shooting techniques in the virtual production studio to create a new symposium style. This virtual studio created a variety of scenes according to the shooting purposes. When using Camera Tracking, the scenes moved with the speakers to generate a highly immersive visual experience that blurred the boundaries between the virtual world and reality. It was a concrete demonstration of the in-demand virtual reality application in the LED display industry during the post-epidemic period. Here is the video replay of this Macroblock Symposium 2021:
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On the opening day of the 2021 NHL Season on its new home on TNT, Turner Sports unveiled its brand-new broadcast studio for the hockey league for the next three years, all powered by disguise. To welcome the start of the season, a quartet of disguise vx 2 media servers and five rx II render nodes will now drive over 270º of wraparound visual content in the new studio which was built in just under two months at the end of summer with the help of disguise Certified Solution Provider and Atlanta-based creative studio MEPTIK.Read More »Turner Sports Delivers Innovative Hybrid NHL Studio in Record Time Powered by disguise
San Diego Symphony’s The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, which opened in the summer of 2021, is located on the edge of San Diego Bay. The Rady Shell was looking for a reliable followspot system they could use during the symphony, concerts, and events. Jason Rothberg, Technical Director and Lighting Designer at The Rady Shell understood the unique challenges that his venue faced. Being an outdoor venue, Rothberg knew that a traditional followspot would not be an option. While the original design centered around a brand-specific moving light and tracking system, the exterior venue wanted a system that would meet IP65 standards for outdoor use.Read More »The Rady Shell Invests in a Follow-Me Followspot System
As the holiday season approaches, festive specials are a great way to be both merry and bright. One of NBC’s holiday specials, Holidays with the Houghs, was designed by James Pearse Connelly.Read More »JPConnelly Designs NBC’s Holidays with the Houghs
L8, producer of the L8 software package for visualization, announced that it now supports the MA Lighting grandMA3 viz-key. L8 visualizers render a variety of entertainment disciplines including lighting, lasers, pyrotechnics, automated DMX-controlled objects, and other effects in a photorealistic environment.
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September’s seventh annual LUMA Projection Arts Festival in Binghamton, NY wowed tens of thousands of attendees with six original digital art pieces. As with prior festivals, the canvasses for the displays were facades of historic downtown buildings. Using digital projectors (provided by Panasonic), the image warping and blending capabilities of Dataton WATCHOUT® media display software, and purpose-built media servers and production workstations from Show Sage, this year’s artists turned static building surfaces into dynamic stories told in light and sound.Read More »LUMA Projection Arts Festival Shines Anew After One Year Hiatus