Animation & Graphics

Housed within the WebbLeBLANC company that Jasco has an interest in, Jasco Carrier Infrastructure is targeting GSM operators in the highly competitive African market with a comprehensive range of telecoms infrastructure solutions that can be deployed rapidly and easily.

The next generation graphics platform from Avid was unveiled at IBC. Avid Motion Graphics features a revolutionary new real-time 2D / 3D graphics rendering engine that allows for the creation of thrilling graphics and arresting imagery while journalists and others integrate those graphics into their stories.

The IBC line-up of SeaChange International underscored the television industry’s continued shift to multi-screen video with an array of software, applications and

Hundreds of delegates in the web and emerging technology sector attended the first day of the Tech4Africa Conference on 27 October at The Campus in Johannesburg.

The io XT, AJA Video Inc.’s first Thunderbolt-enabled professional video I/O device, connects to a Thunderbolt enabled Apple computer via a single cable.

According to Greg Meek from animation and design production company Flic, they are currently working on an ad for Ogilvy and its client, Castle.

Grass Valley has introduced the STRATUS media workflow application framework, which streamlines a variety of tasks and processes for media production and management.

Lucky Bean Media director Chris Green was tasked with helming a spot for production agency Eject Media which involved scenarios where ordinary South Africans show their support for the national rugby team, the Springboks, in interesting and creative ways.

Coca-Cola is a dream brand to work on so getting a brief through Draftfcb to produce and direct not one but two Coke commercials was really exciting, according to Craig Wessels of Wicked Pixels.

I like snooping around Black Ginger because there’s always something fascinating going on in their animated, VFX’y world.