Rainmaker Ent. Inc. has chosen Rising Sun Research's cineSpace for color calibration at its Vancouver facilities. The cineSpace color management suite will be used across workstations and digital screening rooms throughout Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Animation for monitor matching and digital film previews.
cineSpace delivers precise calibration across a wide range of systems and applications, providing accurate matching to broadcast standards and print film output. Includes plug-ins for Shake, Fusion, Nuke and Film Master, and 3D LUT support for products from Iridas, Assimilate, Autodesk, Apple and many others.
"Rainmaker Ent. faces many challenges with regards to color management," stated Brian Chacon, Head of Production Technology. "As a company, we offer both a visual effects division and an animation division, each with their own specific needs pertaining to color."
"Within our visual effects division, we must deal with the ongoing process of Linear to Log conversion," Chacon noted. "In our animation division, the struggle is maintaining consistency from desktop CRT to professional broadcast monitors via PAL and/or NTSC. Soon, Rainmaker Animation will begin production on ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, an animated theatrical feature from the Weinstein Co. Taking all of these requirements into consideration at our Vancouver facilities, we were confident in choosing cineSpace."
cineSpace 2.5 is available immediately from Rising Sun Research and authorised resellers worldwide, and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and IRIX platforms. For more information visit http://cinespace.risingsunresearch.com.
Rainmaker (www.rainmaker.com), headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is the largest visual effects and animation company in Canada, with three divisions: Rainmaker Animation, Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post. Rainmaker also operates a facility in London: Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects UK Ltd. (Rainmaker UK). Rainmaker Animation, with the inclusion of recently acquired Mainframe Entertainment, creates 3D animation for the feature film market and is the industry leader in CG animation for television and direct-to-DVD family entertainment. Rainmaker Post provides a wide array of post-production services ranging from traditional film lab processes to the very latest in digital image processing including HD. Rainmaker also maintains an office in Los Angeles.
Rising Sun Research (RSR, www.risingsunresearch.com) is a specialist developer of solutions for improving digital visual workflows, with clients, including some of the biggest (and smallest) post-production houses, visual effects companies, digital film labs, educational institutions and film productions in the world. The company was founded in 1999 as a technology spin-off from the visual effects company Rising Sun Pictures and is now an independent, privately held company headquartered in Adelaide, Australia.
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