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4Wall Entertainment Adds Industry Veteran Josh Weisberg as Senior VP of AV Strategy

4Wall Entertainment, a national provider of entertainment equipment rentals, sales, and services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Josh Weisberg as Senior VP of AV Strategy. Weisberg brings over four decades of industry experience to 4Wall and was the co-founder of WorldStage. Weisberg most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer at WorldStage, before stepping down and taking an advisor role in 2017.Read More »4Wall Entertainment Adds Industry Veteran Josh Weisberg as Senior VP of AV Strategy

SJ Lighting Updates DAER Nightclub Lighting with Hybrid Fuze SFX LED Movers

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

Astera Wins 2022 Bert Easey Technical Award

(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

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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