Colorfront Team wins Scientific & Engineering Academy
Award® for Development of Autodesk Lustre
January 26, 2010
Source: Colorfront
Colorfront, one of the world’s most
advanced digital intermediate (DI) and post production facilities,
based in Budapest, Hungary, has announced that its software
development team is to be honoured with a Scientific and
Engineering Award® from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences®.
News of the prestigious award, for the development
Autodesk’s Lustre® grading system, comes as the team
focuses on new challenges of streamlining camera-to-post workflows
for motion picture and episodic TV production.
The Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards honour the people
whose discoveries and innovations have contributed in significant,
outstanding and lasting ways to motion pictures. The Scientific
and Engineering Award® is given for achievements that
produce a definite influence on the advancement of the motion
pictureindustry.
Colofront’s Mark Jaszberenyi, along with software engineers
Gyula Priskin and Tamas Perlaki, met in high school where
they studied advanced mathematics and have worked together
for a decade. They will receive the Academy Award® for
the design and development of the
Lustre colour correction system at a formal awards ceremony
on 20th February 2010 in Los Angeles. Lustre enables real-time
digital manipulation of imagery during the DI process for
motion pictures.
Brief history of Lustre:
When it was launched in 2003 the Lustre was the culmination
of five years of pioneering research and development into
DI. Its foundations date back to 1998, when Jaszberenyi and
Priskin pioneered an end-to- end digital film pipeline offering
scanning, compositing, VFX,
restoration and titling services for Hungary’s first
digital film post production company, founded by Jaszberenyi.
DI did not exist at the time and Colofront was established
in 2000 by brothers Aron and Mark Jaszberenyi, with Priskin
as lead developer, to develop software that met industry demand
for colour-calibrated tools to digitally grade and finish
motion pictures. Perlaki joined Colorfront in 2001 as lead
developer.
Colorfront made motion picture history in 2001 when it delivered
SACC (Stand-Alone Colour Corrector) to colourist Peter Doyle
to grade Peter Jackson’s The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring. Shortly after, EFILM in Los Angeles became Colorfront’s
next customer, breaking new ground with the first end-to-end
DI on We Were Soldiers.
During this period, British company 5D licensed Colorfront’s
colour correction technology and brought this to market as
5D Colossus. In 2003, Discreet (nowAutodesk) licensed Colorfront’s
technology, and
introduced the first Lustre DI system. Autodesk acquiredLustre
from Colorfront in June 2005.
Jaszberenyi left Autodesk in 2007 and established DI and post-
production company Colorfront in Budapest with his brother
Aron. Priskin and Perlaki joined Colorfront shortly after.
The company offers HD, 2K and 4K post-production services
to international filmmakers, with credits including Terry
Pratchett’s Going Postal (The Mob/Sky), The Pillars Of
The Earth (Tandem Communications/Muse
Entertainment/Scott Free) and The Debt (Miramax Disney).
Today Lustre enjoys an enviable reputation as the market-leading
DI system, used around the world to grade an extensive list
of motion pictures including Apocalypto, The Da Vinci Code,
Pan’s Labyrinth and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of
the Black Pearl amongst many others.
Looking forward:
The Colorfront team has advised many of the world’s leading
facilities about DI workflow including EFILM/Deluxe, Technicolor,
LaserPacific/Kodak in Los Angeles, Éclair in Paris,
PrimeFocus in India, ARRI in Munich and Weta Digital in Wellington.
The Academy Award® award comes it implements new image-processing
and visual communications technologies at its Budapest-based
facility that streamline camera-to-post workflows for motion
pictures and episodic TV productions.
Colorfront’s managing director Aron Jaszberenyi commented,
“To receive this accolade for DI innovation work is a
great honour for our team. Their work had a dramatic impact
on motion picture post, but the industry moves on and new
challenges lie ahead. We use Lustre
in our own DI grading theatres, complemented by the new software
tools that our award-winning team are developing in-house
to assist every aspect of pre-production, cinematography,
dailies, conform, visual effects, DI and deliverables. Colorfront
relies on these
proprietary new technologies for a fast and efficient high-resolution
workflow to serve our international production clients.”
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