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52 Establish your horizon Your creative vision knows no limits. Where others end, you continue to the next horizon. Your production technology needsto keep up with you. New Vegas™ Pro 8 software delivers the ultimate all-in-one video and audio production environment for creative visionaries like you. Its unique, progressive approach to video production, unrivaled audio control and powerful DVD authoring tools set it apart from other non-linear editors. Having established the benchmark for speed and ease of use, this new version moves the bar higher with additional features that offer increased power, functionality, and creative potential. Now with ProType Titling Technology, multicamera editing, a comprehensive channel-based audio mixing console, Blu-ray Disc™ burning, and superior 32-bit fl oat engine processing – in addition to its robust support for HDV, XDCAM™, 5.1 surround encoding, and 3D compositing – Vegas Pro 8 offers an unlimited array of opportunities to reach your production goals. It’s more than audio, more than video, more than media. It’s your vision, a notch above the rest. Reach that new horizon with the power of Vegas Pro 8. Learn more at www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegash Copyright © 2008. Sony Creative Software Inc. All rights reserved. VP8b_Stash.indd 1 2/20/08 11:42:37 AM Four companies worth watching: Catch their latest work on the bonus disk in this issue. Hey all, hope your holidays served to recharge your body and your stash brain cells. God knows you’re going to need them at full strength for DVD MAGAZINE 52 navigating the stormy seas of 2009. STASH MEDIA INC. So say the headlines. Editor: STEPHEN PRICE Publisher: GREG ROBINS Maybe we’re off in our own little bubble here in Motionburg, but the Managing editor: HEATHER GRIEVE mood I sensed as I made the rounds of NY holiday events in December Account managers: APRIL HARVEY, CHRISTINE STEAD was anything but gloomy. There was a minority who had recently joined Producer: BRANDON DEMARCO the ranks of freelancers against their own wishes but most people and Submissions coordinator: ABBEY KERR studios described themselves as busy or very busy. Even those who Music editor: STEVE MARCHESE admitted to a slowdown had an air of unshakeable determination about Proofing editor: MARILEE BOITSON getting through anything the world may throw at them. Preview/montage editor: HEATHER GRIEVE Kudo’s to that attitude. Change is a good thing but it’s not always easy Preview opening animation: TANTRUM to see it that way when change involves the loss of key clients or the Contributing producer: ERIC ALBA sudden and involuntary deconstruction of one’s career. Technical guidance: IAN HASKIN Cover image: BENT IMAGE LAB Whatever 2009 brings (and you’ll get no predictions from me) there will still be millions of screens to fill with thousands of messages and WWW.STASHMEDIA.TV billions of eyeballs to greet them. ISSN 1712-5928 Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD Stormy seas be damned. Sail on. are published 12 times per year by Stash Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents copyright Stash Media Inc. No part of this booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied without express written permission from Stephen Price the publisher. Stash Media Inc. does not promote or endorse products, services or Editor events advertised by third party advertisers. New York, January 2009 Submissions: www.stashmedia.tv/submit Subscriptions: www.stashmedia.tv [email protected] Contact: Stash Media Inc. 494-1641 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5 Canada. Curated in New York. Printed in Canada. stash 52.01 Nike “BE The Legend” Short film 2:00 Agency: POstvisUAL Director: JichUL Lee Animation/VFX/design: Giantstep FXGeaR Jamsan www.giantstep.co.kr www.fxgear.net www.jamsan.com Seoul’s Giantstep studio updates traditional ink painting techniques by fusing them with 3D as they propel South Korean soccer hero Jisung Park into the realm of legend. Giantstep producer Eunlee Lee: “Through the campaign, Park who never gives up in difficult situations, symbolizes the phoenix. For Giantstep VFX TD: Seonghwan Hong Design: Jamsan Moreover, Nike Korea celebrated Director: Jichul Lee Modeling: Yongkun Ryu Editor: Seunbong Ha launching Jisung Park’s soccer Technical director: Hee Moon Lighting: Sangki Chun Editor assist: Keunmo Moon Roto: boot – JS PARK Tempo Legend II Producer: Junho Lee, Haewon Animator lead: Chiwook Han Seungchan Kim, Heejung Choi, FG – the first boot named for an Kam, Eunlee Lee Animator assist: Hyejoo Choi, Jihyun Ko, Seju LeeBora Hwang, Asian football player.” Schedule: EP: HyunBok Jung Seohee Lee, Jaeyoon Oh, Wonkyu Kim two months. Senario: Jeonghoon Hong Youngkyun Kim Storyboard: Sangyong Jung VFX super: Jaecheol Hong Rendering TD: Jinmo Jeon Graphics engineer lead: Watch Behind the Scenes on CG super: Teakyung Yoo, Flame lead: Jaeil Sim Kwangjin Choi the DVD. Yongjik Kim Flame assist: Sunmi Shin, Graphics engineer assist: 3D lead: Soowon Hong, Hyoungjin Lee Wnao Choi Ghoonwoo Lee, Cholho Shin, Lead compositor: Iljin Choi Toolkit Sangok Kim, Hyowoo Nam Compositor assist: Donghwan Lee Maya, mental ray, Flame, Qlose stash 52.02 AUdi Q5 “SynchROniZed” TVC :60 Agency: Heimat Directors: MARCO SpieR, Eben MeaRS Production: TempOmedia, Stink, PsyOP Animation/VFX: PsyOP “Basically, we combined a Till Eckel www.psyop.tv greenscreen live action FX shoot Planning: Andreas Mengele, Flame: Chris Staves Psyop directors Eben Mears and with CG people animation. The Sebastian Marx Lead compositor: Doug Purver Marco Spier: “The task was to spot starts by introducing the Account supervision: Frank Ricken Compositor: Jason Conradt humans behind the cards. Then Flame assist: Dan Bojo, Jeen Lee, show the principle of synchronicity. For Tempomedia we cut to wide shots in which Leslie Chung We were asked to find interesting EP: Vera Portz we introduce depth by creating Design: Anh Vu ways to create real images Producers: Gunnar Meyer of driving using thousands of waves in the placards. Cutting Editor: Graham Brennan, perfectly synchronized humans back to live action, we see our For Stink Cass Vanini holding cards. It had to be engineers jumping, flying, doing EP: Nils Schwemer Roto: Alejandro Monzon, epic and spectacular but also acrobatics, all while holding their Producer: Susanne Ehlers Brian Dangren, Chris Riemann, placards. We kept the effect David Marte, J Bush, Joe Brigati, believable. For Psyop very real by shooting all of the Jordan Harvey, Will Frazier Directors: Marco Spier, “First we explored many different foreground people performing Storyboard: Ben Chan Eben Mears ways of creating dimension. We actual acrobatics. In the wider Additional design: Producer: Jen Glabus talked to our choreographer to shots we filled in the backgrounds Pete Sickbert-Bennett EP: Boo Wong find ways to throw people in the with CG people to get the massive Tracking: Joerg Liebold 3D lead: Florian Witzel air, to create human pyramids and size of the group. The trick is that 3D: Alvin Bae, Andreas Gebhardt, For Q-Department synchronous summersaults. It was we always use real people as Dave Barosin, Heiko Schneck, Music/sound design: important that everything could foreground objects.” actually be created by people. Jae Ham, Jonah Friedman, Lee Drazen Bosnjak For Heimat, Berlin Wolland, Pakron Bupphavesa, We wanted to shoot as much as Toolkit CD: Guido Heffels Pat Porter we could in order to blur the line Panavision Genesis, XSI, Maya, Creatives: Guido Heffels, Look development: Marco Iozzi between real and CG. Flame, After Effects Nico Ronacher, Tim Schneider, Flame lead: Jamie Scott stash 52.03 Infiniti Virals x 2 :45 Agency: TUllO MARshall WARRen Director: PARasOL Island Production: PARasOL Island Animation: PARasOL Island www.parasol-island.com Seen at car exhibitions, in dealer showrooms and online at infinitivisualiser.com, these fully 3D films produced by Parasol Island in Duesseldorf, Germany are the core of the Inifinti launch in Europe. According to the studio, “We had to create locations that were futuristic but at the same time believable, which led us to seconds. When you do CG work For Tullo Marshall Warren Szklarski, Marko Wilz, look closely at the works of great it is standard procedure to only Sr digital copy: Jake Cooper Tim Reischmann, Andrzej architects like Calatrava and build the stuff you see through the Interactive CD: Gareth James Bandurski, Tim Weimann, Hadid. Each setting had to support camera. But to achieve a realistic Sebastian Freigang Matte: For Parasol Island and underline the character of look on the cars we had to build René Borst Producer/head of animation: the car that would be surrounded all the virtual sets in 360 degrees.” Compositing: Stefan Ihringer, Philip Hansen by it. Finding the right balance in Schedule: four months including Elmar Weinhold, Marius Kuberczyk VFX super: Paul Dreisen the murky zone between hyper- pre-production, storyboards, Music/sound: Jonathan Wulfes Designer/CD: Charles Bals, stylized and gritty-realism to animatics through to delivery. achieve this goal was possibly the Sebastian Onufszak Toolkit hardest part, together with fitting Watch Behind the Scenes on Previz: Christan Bumba Maya, mental ray, Fusion all the requested shots into 40 the DVD. 3D: Alexander Hupperich, Olli Markowski, Jan Berner, Pawel stash 52.04 HERZOG & de MEURON’S “56 LEOnaRD STReet” Architectural film 1:54 Agency: PandisciO Director: TROnic STUdiO Animation/VFX: TROnic STUdiO www.tronicstudio.com Tronic partners Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal put their Columbia University architecture degrees to use in this sleek and dynamic promotional simulation for a luxury residential tower punctuated by Anish Kapoor’s stainless steel sculpture in that required an enormous amount the Tribeca neighborhood of rendering and hard work, but of Manhattan. Jesse Seppi: we wanted to go the extra mile to “Conceptually and aesthetically polish this amazing building.” we share the same language with For Tronic Studio architects, so the working process CD: Jesse Seppi is much smoother.