Aardman Animation strengthens digital workflow with Digital Vision

July 22, 2009

Source: Digital Vision

Digital Vision, the premier supplier of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, is pleased to announce that multi-award winning film company and Wallace & Gromit creators, Aardman Animations, has purchased a Digital Vision Data Conform for work on its next feature release.

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‘The Pirates! - In An Adventure With Scientists’ is a stop-frame release based on the cult ‘Pirates’ books by Gideon Defoe and is slated for a 2012 release. Directed by Aardman co-founder, Peter Lord, it’s the first Aardman stop-frame feature film to be shot digitally rather than on film.

According to ‘Pirates!’ Technical Director, Tom Barnes, the Data Conform will initially be used to feed rushes into the company's d-cinema projector for approval. “We plan to use it as a tool for assembling and viewing work for assessment,” he says. “We also find that the ability to project from Avid and conform rushes from an Avid EDL is a big advantage and it’s great that we can mix 3k TIFF, 2k DPX, jpeg, Quicktime and MXF on the same timeline and instantly review with realtime scaling and colourspace conversion.”

Simon Cuff, President and COO comments; “it is really gratifying that when Aardman made the transition from film cameras to digital cameras that they looked to Digital Vision products. Data Conform is a completely modular product that has options for conforming, compositing, video IO, grading and of course can run our Emmy winning DVO image enhancement tools. It can grow with your requirements and has been used on literally 1000’s of motion pictures since it’s first release in 2002.”

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