| | | | Documentary Editors Rock ‘Filmage’ Post Production with AJA Io XT
 "Filmage: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL" began as a passion project for a group of creatives working at Dallas-based post house CharlieUniformTango , and quickly evolved into a full-fledged documentary production. Within four years, the film's directors Deedle LaCour and Matt Riggle, along with editors Justin Wilson and James Rayburn, had traveled the world, combining a love for old-school punk music with filmmaking chops to deliver an indie flick that recounts the history and influence of punk rock legends the Descendents. The film features a compilation of present-day interviews with band members and industry influencers, fan video submissions and archived tour media. Editorial for the film required a portable and flexible workflow, for which Rayburn turned to AJA’s Io XT Thunderbolt-enabled professional video device for on-the-go I/O.
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| | | | Filmworkers Appoints Derek de Board to Executive Producer
 The 10-Year Industry Veteran will Also Serve as Executive Producer of Churchill Studio.
Filmworkers has promoted Derek de Board to Executive Producer. De Board, who marks his tenth anniversary with the company this month, will oversee production activities, lead a team of producers and schedulers, direct sales and coordinate joint projects with Filmworkers’ Dallas and Nashville facilities, as well as other members of the Filmworkers Group (which include Vitamin, Giannini Creative and Tree House Edit). He will also serve as Executive Producer of Churchill Studio, Filmworkers’ newly formed, in-house visual effects studio.
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| | | | Toyota Avalon Campaign, Edited By Territory’s Terry King For Burrell Communications, Takes Home The Silver 2014 National ADDY Award
 This Third ADDY Win For Cross-Platform Campaign, ‘Only The Name Remains,’ Follows A Silver ADDY Garnered By ‘The Pick Up,’ The First Of A Trio Of Spots Revealing Its Dramatic, Spy-Themed Plot
Toyota Avalon Spot,"The Pick Up," featuring Golden Globe winner, Idris Ela behind the wheel in the first of a trio of action-packed, spy-themed spots from "Only The Name Remains" campaign.
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| | | | Filmworkers Launches “Churchill’s Studio” for Visual Effects and CG
 Rob Churchill to lead new creative unit, whose first project is an all-CG spot for Cedar Fair.
Continuing its expansion mode, Filmworkers has formed a new in-house creative unit, Churchill’s Studio, focused on visual effects and animation. Headed by Visual Effects Director Rob Churchill, the new unit will provide services ranging from compositing and visual effects to full CG production.
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| | | | Filmworkers Uses Scare Tactics in New Campaign for Cedar Fair
 All-CG Spot Produced by Filmworkers’ New VFX and Animation Unit Churchill Studio Introduces “Banshee,” the World’s Largest Inverted Roller Coaster.
Filmworkers’ new creative unit Churchill Studio encourages viewers to face their worst fears (while enjoying the thrill of their lives) in a new spot for amusement park giant Cedar Fair and Chicago agency Cramer-Krasselt. "Everything You Fear" is an all-CG spot introducing "Banshee," a new roller coaster debuting at Cedar Fair’s Kings Island park this summer.
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| | | | Designer/Animator Erik Edmonson Joins Filmworkers Nashville
 Award-winning motion graphics designer and animator Erik Edmondson has joined the creative team at Filmworkers, Nashville. The arrival of Edmondson, whose work spans commercials, broadcast design, title treatments and graphics, will allow Filmworkers to expand its menu of services, adding design and animation to its core post production offerings, which include editing, color correction, visual effects and editorial finishing.
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| | | | Matt Egan, Filmworkers Celebrate “Modern. Southern. Music.” with Hayden Panettiere and Belk
 Matt Egan has directed Nashville star Hayden Panettiere in a new ad for Belk that is part of the fashion brand’s “Modern. Southern. Music.” campaign. Filmworkers provided post production services for the glamorous commercial, produced by Coin-Operated Films, which captures the actress arriving on location at the newly-renovated Country Music Hall of Fame for an evening shoot.
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| | | | Mr. Wolf Sets Up Shop in Santa Monica
 Formerly Known as 1.1 VFX, the Expanding Visual Effects and Post Boutique has Found a New Home at Bully Pictures.
Creative directors Danny Yoon and Duy Nguyen, and executive producer Mike Pryor have renamed their boutique visual effects and post production company and moved it into new digs in Santa Monica. Formerly known as 1.1 VFX, the company will now operate as Mr. Wolf and work out of new headquarters located within the offices of commercial production company Bully Pictures. The new space includes a bevy of resources for visual effects, compositing, editorial finishing and digital color correction, as well as room for further expansion.
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| | | | Filmworkers Sinks Its Teeth into McDonald's Olympics Campaign
 DDB’s “Bite” Campaign Links Athletes’ Hunger for the Gold with Consumers Love for McDonald’s McNuggets.
Filmworkers provided post services for a new Olympics-themed campaign from McDonald’s and DDB, Chicago, that has plenty of “bite.” The new spots connect the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi with the McDonald’s brand by showing medal-winning performances from past games, and consumers watching at home while enjoying McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. Each spot ends with a shot juxtaposing the winning athlete, celebrating victory by biting a medal, with a consumer, who is also celebrating by biting a McNugget. U.S. snowboarder Louie Vito, ice hockey player Patrick Kane and speed skater Shani Davis are among those featured in the ads.
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| | | | Whitehouse Post Gets a Taste of Gold with McDonald’s via DDB Chicago
 The biting of the medal has become an iconic symbol of victory at the Olympics. "Celebrate with a Bite" is a nostalgic and spirited celebration of athletic triumph edited by Whitehouse Post's Meg Kubicka.
The biting of the medal has become an iconic symbol of victory at the Olympics. Coincidentally, the iconic Chicken McNugget is sometimes used to celebrate life’s smaller victories. Whether you’re a world-class athlete or a child who’s scored his first goal...The greatest victories are celebrated with a bite.
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| | | | Filmworkers Recreates Chicago History for DDB and The Field Museum
 Rob Churchill brings century old Ferris wheel and dynamo to life in directing a campaign promoting the Museum’s new exhibit.
Filmworkers helped Chicago agency DDB recapture the thrills experienced by visitors to Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair in a new ad campaign for The Field Museum.
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| | | | Taillight TV Launches Porchlight – A Turnkey Production Company Dedicated To Spots + Digital Media
 Nashville’s Multi Award-Winning Long-Form Production Company Changes The Landscape of the South East’s Commercial Industry With The Launch Of A One-Stop Production House Tailored To The Needs of Agencies & Brands
Porchlight, a turnkey commercial production company dedicated to providing advertising agencies and brands with innovative spots and short-form content for broadcast and emerging media, has opened its doors in Nashville.
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| | | | Filmworkers Helps State Farm Spokesman Aaron Rodgers Find a Seat in “Grill Class”
 Post house provides color, editorial and VFX services for the latest in a series of spots out of DDB.
Filmworkers provided post-production services with a distinctive Windy City accent for the latest spot from State Farm. Conceived by Chicago agency DDB, the spot features State Farm spokesman Aaron Rodgers, who finds himself wedged uncomfortably between a pair of Bears fans during an airline flight. The two fans are played by George Wendt and Robert Smigel in a reprise of their roles as “Bob” and “Carl” from a classic "Saturday Night Live" skit. Bob and Carl poke fun at Rodgers as the “discount double check guy” while tending a pair of tray table grills filled with sizzling brats.
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| | | | Noted Senior Colorist Lynette Duensing Joins Cinelicious
 Next-gen postproduction company Cinelicious is excited to welcome senior colorist Lynette Duensing. Lynette is an internationally renowned color talent who recently returned from a year working abroad in Shanghai. She will be based out of Cinelicious Santa Monica for commercial projects and lend her signature eye for grading to longform via Cinelicious Hollywood.
published 2 years ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Rediscover The Lost Art Of Getting Together
Grand Large Inc., announces director Gaysorn Thavat’s latest commercial, Chinet’s “The Lost Art of Getting Together”, which brings home the idea that the most memorable connections still happen face-to-face.
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| | | | Treehouse Scores for Russell Athletic
 John McStravick edits broadcast and online campaign out of The Richards Group on the team values in football.
Treehouse editor John McStravick helped capture the spirit of team sport in editing a new campaign for sporting apparel innovator Russell Athletic®. Conceived by Dallas agency The Richards Group, the campaign includes broadcast and online ads and features high school football players discussing values that bind their teams and lead them to excel.
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| | | | Matt Egan of Filmworkers Gives Spy Novel the Star Treatment
 Filmworkers director Matt Egan creates a trailer worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster for Derek Haas’ new novel “The Right Hand”
Derek Haas has seen a lot of slickly-produced trailers full of pyrotechnics, special effects, and sexy women. They are often part of the marketing campaigns for the films whose screenplays he’s written, films that include 3:10 to Yuma and Wanted. But it’s unusual for one of his spy novels to get the Hollywood treatment.
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| | | | Filmworkers Nashville Adds Colorist Jimmy Cadenas
 Young colorist brings experience with Baselight grading system and a credit list that includes Bridgestone, Southwest Airlines, and McDonald’s.
In the first step in a new effort to grow and expand services, Filmworkers, Nashville, has added Jimmy Cadenas as Senior Colorist. Cadenas spent the past seven years at Filmworkers’ facilities in Chicago and Dallas where he learned his craft from some of the industry’s top colorists, and worked on projects ranging from national television commercials to music videos and feature films.
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| | | | Filmworkers Puts FotoKem’s nextLAB® in the House
Software Powers Workflow for Respected Midwest Facility
FotoKem’s nextLAB®, a powerful end-to-end software solution for file-based film and television productions, has been put into service at Chicago’s Filmworkers Club, where it will be used on certain projects to help manage input from camera dailies, through the color pipeline, to delivery. Filmworkers Club is a highly respected facility, providing post production for spots, shorts, features, and television in the Midwest. The software platform was installed in the facility in March.
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| | | | Tale of Three Tellys: Sonixphere Scores Sonic Trifecta at 33rd Annual Telly Awards
 Illinois Lottery’s “Cash for Life” Wins Top Honors in 3 Sound Categories
Sonixphere, a global resource for everything related to music and sound, has won three 2012 Telly Awards for the music and sound design it created for the Illinois Lottery spot Cash For Life. The humorous :30, produced via Energy BBDO, garnered Silver Tellys (top honors) for Best Composition and Best Use of Music for a Local, Regional or Cable TV Commercial, and a Bronze Telly in Sound Design.
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| | | | Filmworkers Grades “Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout”
Event produced by Zacuto and Kessler includes side-by-side comparisons of cameras made by Sony, Arri, Alexa, Canon and others.
Filmworkers recently took part in a unique event testing the performance of the current generation of digital motion picture cameras, from leading edge camera systems used to shoot Hollywood blockbusters to the humble iPhone. The Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout was produced by camera dealer Zacuto and crane manufacturer Kessler Cranes. Like similar events produced by Zacuto in the past, RGCSO features side-by-side tests of camera systems made by Sony, Arri, Red, Canon, Panasonic and Apple. Filmworkers provided color grading services necessary to make direct comparisons between the output of the cameras. Grading was performed by colorist Jimmy Cardenas with additional grading by colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci.
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| | | | Filmworkers Post H-E-B Super Bowl “Alien” Spot
 In spot, which debuted during the Super Bowl, space invaders want what Texans have.
Filmworkers provided post-production services for a spot for Texas grocery chain H-E-B in which aliens invade the Lone Star State in search of tasty, store-brand food. Matt McClain performed final color correction for the 60-second commercial which debuted in Southwest markets during the Super Bowl broadcast. It will also air during other high-profile events, including the Academy Awards. An extended version is featured on the H-E-B Facebook page.
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| | | | Giannini Creative Launches Dallas Office
Creative collection expands links with Filmworkers and Vitamin as a “Trilogy of Talent” focused on cross-platform services for broadcast, interactive and print.
Giannini Creative, one of the advertising industry’s leading providers of creative retouching, CGI/3D art and pre-media services, has opened a production studio in Dallas.
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| | | | Colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci Joins Filmworkers
 Former Riot, Santa Monica; FSM, Australia; and Rumblefish, Milano artist adds international flair and grading experience for top brands.
Colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci, whose work spans four continents and is a frequent collaborator of some of the world’s top ad agencies and commercial directors, has joined Filmworkers, Chicago, as Senior Colorist.
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| | | | Editor/VFX Artist Tim Moore Joins Filmworkers Nashville
 Award-winning editor and visual effects artist Tim Moore has joined Filmworkers, Nashville. A multi-talented artist, skilled in a variety of editorial and visual effects platforms, Moore arrives from Storyville Post, Nashville, where he primarily worked on television commercials. His credits include campaigns for the Nashville Predators, Pigeon Forge and RBC, Bank. He recently won a Gold Addy for Special Effects, for his work on a campaign for the Tennessee Lottery and The Buntin Group.
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| | | | Vitamin, Filmworkers Deliver for Freschetta
 Digital production studio and post house provide concept through delivery services for visual effects driven campaign out of Cannonball.
In a new ad campaign for Freschetta, a woman goes on an Alice-in-Wonderland-like journey in search of a better pizza. The campaign, conceived by St. Louis agency Cannonball, was produced by hybrid production studio Vitamin, which worked with its affiliate, Filmworkers, to provide a unique one-stop solution for the campaign that took it from the drawing board to the screen.
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| | | | Director Matthew Egan Joins Filmworkers
 Branded content specialist to head new production unit focused on web content and other new media
Director Matthew Egan, a specialist in branded entertainment and other new media content, has joined Filmworkers as part of its newly-formed production division Filmworkers Media Content. Egan has directed web-based projects for a number of national brands including Target, POM Wonderful, Geico and Chicago-based designer Agga B. At Filmworkers MC, he will pursue similar work and will also team with Filmworkers and its affiliates Vitamin and Giannini Creative to provide packaged creative services for broadcast and interactive.
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| | | | Giannini Creative Joins Filmworkers Group
 Multi-award-winning creative collective teams with post house and design group to package creative services for broadcast, interactive and print.
Giannini Creative, a collective of some of the advertising industry’s top artists specializing in creative retouching, CGI for character development, animation and print, illustration and pre-media, has joined the Filmworkers group of creative services companies.
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| | | | Filmworkers Colorists Subject of Fine Art Portraits
 Photographer Dean George’s imaginative character studies capture the personalities of artists used to remaining behind-the-scenes.
Colorists are used to making images look beautiful, but almost never do they find themselves in front of the lens, serving as the subject matter for provocative pictures. An exception to that rule is provided by an intriguing series of portraits created by photographer Dean George of colorists from Filmworkers facilities in Chicago, Dallas and Nashville.
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| | | | Singular Software Releases Pluraleyes For Avid Media Composer
Red-hot developer brings its flagship synchronization magic to the Avid community
Singular Software™, developer of workflow automation applications for digital media, has announced that its flagship product PluralEyes® has expanded its support for non-linear editing applications to include Avid® Media Composer® software.
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| | | | “Phunny Business” to Make World Premiere at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Documentary about legendary Chicago comedy club features Steve Harvey, Bernie Mac, D.L. Hughley, Cedric The Entertainer, Adele Givens, JB Smoove, Craig Robinson and others.
"Phunny Business: A Black Comedy", a feature-length documentary about the spectacular rise and tragic fall of Chicago’s first Black-owned comedy club, will make its world premiere next month at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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| | | | Vitamin Merges with Lift Motion
 Filmworkers affiliates join forces to offer a one-stop solution of content creation; Adds Silberman as East Coast Rep.
Digital production studio Vitamin and motion graphics and animation specialist Lift Motion, both affiliates of the post house Filmworkers, have merged under the Vitamin banner.
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| | | | DelPurgatorio Joins a Reborn Vitamin
Hybrid Production Studio Offers Multidisciplinary Approach to Ads, Broadcast, Film Titles, New Media and More
Digital media production studio Vitamin has re-launched itself under new leadership and a new creative mandate. Danny DelPurgatorio, formerly a creative director with Radium/Reel FX, has come on board as Executive Creative Director.
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| | | | Filmworkers Launches "The Digigog" for Processing Digitally-Acquired Media
New Service Available through the Company's Chicago, Nashville and Dallas Facilities Offers Dailies Processing for RED Camera files; Non-Linear 2K Color Grading and Final Assembly
Filmworkers has launched a new digital media processing service dubbed The Digigog at its Chicago and Dallas locations aimed at facilitating the growing number of feature film, television and commercial productions that are choosing to capture and post their projects in data.
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| | | | Super Bowl XLII: Digital Artists Tackle Commercials with Autodesk Solutions
More than 30 Super Bowl XLII TV commercials for Bridgestone, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, FedEx and other advertisers were created using Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) technology. Autodesk's visual effects, editing/ finishing and 3D modeling, animation and rendering software were used to deliver computer-generated imagery, including digital animals and environments.
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| | | | SOLdesignfx and Cutters Make Sears Wishbook Come True
"It's the most frequently asked question, heard all around the world: 'What are you wishing for this holiday season?'" muses Chris Markos, Creative Director at SOLdesignfx. "So it's only natural for Sears to respond with a Wishbook presenting featured products and messages this holiday season."
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| | | | News: Union's Einar Puts The "Finishing Touch" On Corona
For his latest collaboration with MJZ Director/DP Sean Thonson, Einar of Union Editoral was asked to tackle a very simple concept: evolution and the creation of the world. The spot, called "Finishing Touch," is for Corona and was created by Kramer-Crasselt in Chicago.
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| | | | News: Hi-Ground Media Opens To High Kudos
New Design/VFX/Post-Production Company Welcomed as "Perfect Balance" of Skill, Service, and Timely Delivery
Visual effects veterans, Gregg Katano and Duy (“Zree”) Nguyen, announce the official launch of Hi-Ground Media, a full service facility providing uncompromising service and innovative design execution for television and film visual effects, main titles, promos, commercials and music videos. The Culver City-based company, founded in January of this year, is this season’s sole visual effects provider for the NBC hit show “Medium”.
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| | | | |  Blogs: Zacuto's just released "Revenge of the Camera Shootout" is a must watch Since I joined Creative Cow few things I have worked on have garnered as much interest as my work on the Zacuto Shoot Outs. I have been lucky enough to have once again asked to join Steve Weiss, Jens Bogehegn, Scott Lynch, Mandy Rodgers and the Zacuto Team for their...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs »Related Tags | | | | |
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