International design, animation and VFX studio rhinofx has enlisted the London-based repping firm The Roster to provide sales efforts in London and the UK. The Roster is led by former producer and current Executive Directors Agent, Georgina Poushkine. Managing Director Rick Waggonheim notes, “We were immediately drawn to Georgina and the entire company’s history and experience in the media production industry and are looking forward doing more work in the overseas markets.” The partnership further solidifies rhino’s position as a global creative force and a leader in superior quality visual effects, design, and animation across all mediums. more

Santa Monica, CA, October 7, 2008 – Immediate Music, Hollywood’s preeminent supplier of original music for high profile, major studio feature film trailers, is making its music available—for the first time ever—to the advertising and videogame industries. Concurrently, the company, which recently provided its signature music for NBC’s 2008 Beijing Olympics, has announced the launch of two new music libraries, “Immediate Music Premium” and “Immediate Music Library.” Also, Immediate Music will now be offering its award-winning, high quality level, original custom scoring services to those industries. Immediate Music co- founders/composers/producers Yoav Goren and Jeffrey Fayman made the announcements. more

TORONTO — Oct. 6, 2008 — Southpaw Technology Inc., makers of TACTIC™, a leading digital asset management system, today announced the immediate availability of TACTIC 2.0, the next generation of its easy to use, fully customizable workflow infrastructure. Available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux, TACTIC 2.0 offers a single software solution to manage the complexflow of digital assets, ensuring workflow pipelines to be dependable, efficient and cost effective. For more information or to see a TACTIC 2.0 demo please visit www.southpawtech.com. more

San Mateo, Calif. – Oct. 6, 2008 – Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing modern 3D content creation software, today announced the immediate availability of imageSynth™ 2, the newest version its popular image processing tool. Featuring up to ten times faster performance, imageSynth 2 allows artists to quickly process existing images into new seamless textures, synthetic images and backgrounds, and generate super high-resolution images from low resolution sources. imageSynth 2 is now available in both a standalone version and as a plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4. For more information or to purchase please visit www.luxology.com/store/imageSynth.aspx. more

In a microphone introduction that brings stadium quality performance to smaller venues at a lower price, AKG Acoustics displays the professional qualities of the D7 vocal microphone. Similarly to its predecessor, the D5, AKG’s D7 is a dynamic microphone that delivers incredibly clear sound for lead and backing vocals for live sound applications. The D7 additionally features an improved capsule design that contains a humbucking coil and a high-pass filter along with a sleek redesigned look. more

Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc. Business Group, the leader in K-12 educational AV systems, is the choice for the Temple, Texas Independent School District (ISD) and its initiative to bring its 14-campus district that serves approximately 8,300 students in pre-school, elementary, middle and high school to the cutting edge of educational AV. Temple ISD recently installed the first round of Hitachi CP-X206 networkable projectors in 506 of its classrooms system-wide. This project will be followed in succeeding months with the installation of an additional 50 to 100 Hitachi projectors (including CP-X201, CP-X306 and CP-X807 models) in other spaces, including libraries, art rooms and cafeteria throughout the district. The Hitachi CP-X206 networkable projectors were purchased through and are being installed by Troxell Communications, the largest privately held audio-visual distributor in the United States, which is based in Phoenix, with 50-plus offices nationwide selling to a broad array of end-users. more

CHICAGO-vitamin, the Chicago-based production studio, has something new to offer advertising agencies, broadcasters and others seeking a fresh approach toward media production. It’s called Döppler.

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NEW YORK CITY- Broadway Video has added Dan Fisher, a specialist in broadcast promotions and other short form media, to its editorial staff. Fisher, who won a Promax World Gold Award earlier this year for his work on a campaign for the Sci Fi Channel series Who Wants to be a Superhero?, will collaborate with BroadwaySound editors Mike Garatty and Kevin McElligott in crafting promotional spots and campaigns for broadcast clients. more

INDIANAPOLIS-In an effort to provide timely, high quality, 24/7 customer support on a global basis, Cine-tal Systems (www.cine-tal.com), a leading manufacturer of image processing, display, color management and collaboration solutions for digital cinema and video production, has launched a new international network of Authorized Service Centers.

Initially, the network will include three sites staffed by dedicated, factory-trained technicians. They include Imagica Digix in Tokyo, Japan, Janusz Rupik PVP Sp.z.o.o. in Warsaw, Poland and Cine-tal’s headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company plans to add several additional Authorized Service Centers in the coming months located in leading media production centers worldwide. more

Playing with blocks isn’t just for kids anymore. The aniMate plug-in for DAZ Studio allows artists to animate 3D characters through drag-and-drop animation modules called aniBlocks, which seamlessly blend into any DAZ Studio project. Created by GoFigure, producer of viral applications for Internet, computer and mobile social networks, and DAZ 3D, developers of high-quality 3D software and models, aniMate offers an extremely easy approach to building animation sequences that is ideal for beginners, yet capable of producing professional results.

“The aniMate plug-in is a natural complement to DAZ Studio’s already comprehensive 3D art and animation toolset and fits perfectly with our philosophy of offering 3D tools to the masses,” said Dan Farr, president and co-founder of DAZ 3D. “Users may import any DAZ 3D model, such as Victoria, and within seconds, create a high-quality animated sequence.” more