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Screen Magazine - Screen Magazine: Vol. 29, Issue 6 - Index

the traditional spot work that has been central to our
companies’ endeavors.”
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Luxology Highlights Use Of Modo In Marketing And
Advertising Image Production
Luxology® LLC, makers of modo, a modern, artist-friendly
image generation software, today announced that it will
host several high-profile
advertising customers
during CGAM 2008, a
new CGI conference
for advertising and
marketing professionals,
featuring work from
leading creative
companies such as Alter,
Schawk and Smoke
and Mirrors. Luxology
will demonstrate how
modo’s artist-friendly
toolset provides an ultra
high quality solution for creating high-resolution images for a
variety of print, illustration and broadcast projects.
“Modo has completely changed and improved the way I
conceptualize and create content for
our web and print advertising work,” said
Chris Morris, CGI Director of Schawk/
Giannini Creative in Chicago. “With
its intuitive, artist-friendly workflow and
powerful range of tools, modo offers
an end-to-end solution for creating
exceptional print CGI work.”
//www.luxology.com
Oddball Unveils Eclectic HD Footage
On New Search Site
Oddball Film+Video, the boutique San
Francisco stock footage company
specializing in offbeat and unusual
footage, unveiled its new clip-driven
search site March 1st. Clip searches
are nothing new in the stock footage
industry, but this time Oddball (one of
the first stock companies to offer Web
search over 10 years ago) is releasing
some of their most eclectic neverbefore-seen
35mm HD color archival
footage for online viewing.
The Magnacolor “Weird Science”
collection includes over 10 hours of
35mm clips featuring offbeat antics,
wacky inventions, silly science and
beauty contests all available for online
viewing and digital download. In addition to their newest HD
footage, Oddball has also uploaded a massive series of 200
B+W industrial films from the 1950s featuring manufacturing
of any conceivable product from carpets to household
cleaners to high precision watches to Polaroid instant
cameras.
Oddball also offers in-house research by their experienced
team of researchers, historians and tech savvy media
specialists for documentaries, high concept commercials
and media projects that require more than clips. With over
45,000 35mm, 16mm, HD and media elements, Oddball’s
staff can pull, view, transfer and digitize clips for immediate
client upload.
Oddball recently provided quirky footage for the Discovery
Channel’s popular “Mythbusters” science program,
Academy Award winner Alex Gibney’s (“Taxi to the Dark
Side”) new Hunter S. Thompson documentary and is currently
completing research for Gus Van Zant’s new feature film
about Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn.
//www.oddballfilm.com