Broadcast News

Bookmark and Share
11/04/2014

DreamWorks Animation Selects FLIX

News Image
Leading software developer The Foundry has announced that DreamWorks Animation has adopted the FLIX software solution for use in the pre-production of animated features.
DreamWorks Animation, creators of films including Turbo, The Croods, Madagascar, Kung-Fu Panda and Shrek, will be using the solution on new upcoming projects.
According to DreamWorks Animation writer, animator and director Jill Culton: "FLIX has been an essential tool in streamlining our story workflow process bringing it into the digital realm. We are now able to easily drop in or reorder storyboards, reducing time consuming manual tasks that used to take us out of the creative flow."
FLIX is a web-based visual story development tool and is full of features that allow artists to find better and faster ways to draw and share storyboard panels. Using FLIX, studios are able to save time on productions by bringing editorial, pre-viz and even lighting into the creative process much earlier on.
"FLIX allows users to effectively manage the pre-production storyboarding process, through all the numerous iterations and changes. All those involved in a project, be it writers, directors or storyboard artists, can load up FLIX and see the latest version. They don't even need to be in the same room or building," says Yiotis Katsambas, FLIX product manager, The Foundry.
Furthermore, Katsambas adds: "The tool keeps track of all the data associated with project changes, automatically versioning the content thus ensuring users update the most current images in the story sequence.
"FLIX brings a new level of efficiency to projects and manages the technical complexities of collaboration and change with ease."
Gregory Brentin, Director of Workflow, DreamWorks Animation says the tool will also be used for projects in development for TV distribution. "Artists, writers and directors found that FLIX reduces the complexity of data management and enables a better feedback loop. Having proved beneficial to the feature pre-production workflow, we are now in the process of expanding its use onto more projects."
FLIX won a 2013 HPA Engineering Excellence Award and has already been picked up by a number of other high profile studios including Warner Brothers Animation. Before The Foundry took over commercial development last year, FLIX was developed as an in-house solution at Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI).
It has been battle-tested in production at SPI since 2008 and has been used on more than 15 projects including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania.

DreamWorks
The Foundry
Solidmate Ltd Memory Card Hire London

Top Related Stories
Click here for the latest broadcast news stories.

09/08/2023
RTW Appoints New International Business Development Manager
RTW, a renowned manufacturer of audio metering solutions, has appointed Carl Kurlanda as its new International Business Development Manager. Kurlanda
14/06/2023
Vizrt Group Appoints Director Of Channel Development
Vizrt Group has appointed Jenny Isaksson as the Director of Channel Development as the company focuses on additional investment and support for its ch
18/04/2023
KitPlus Show Appoints Event Director
KitPlus Show has appointed Matt Snow as event director, to drive forward the growing programme of the shows. These regional events have proved to be e
13/03/2024
ThinkAnalytics Appoints SVP Business Development, Strategy, And Partnerships
ThinkAnalytics has announced that following the appointment of Marc Aldrich, Worldwide CEO, Roger Sherwood, SVP Professional Services and Andrew Read,
07/03/2024
Telenor Sweden Deploys Agile's CDN Director Solution
Agile Content has deployed its Agile CDN Director solution at Telenor Sweden, one of the largest mobile phone, television and broadband service operat
31/01/2024
Panalux Appoints Long Form Sales Director
Panalux has announced the hiring of lighting-industry veteran Sandro Leone as the company’s Long Form Sales Director. In this role, Leone will focus o
08/01/2024
Hiave Announce New Sales Director
Leading manufacturer of media playback solutions, Hive, has announced the appointment of Nigel Sadler to the role of Sales Director. Nigel's backgroun
20/12/2023
Lightware Visual Engineering Appoints Regional Director For Southeast Asia
Lightware Visual Engineering has appointed Candice Siow as Regional Director for Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, Candice joins Lightware with more
18/10/2023
Riedel Appoints Customer Success Director
Riedel Communications has announced that Lucy O'Brien has been appointed to the role of customer success director to accommodate the company's continu
06/09/2023
Magewell Launches Director Mini
Magewell has been renowned for its reliable and innovative video interface, streaming and IP workflow products. Today the company is expanding its por
03/04/2023
Digital 3&4 Appoints New Managing Director
Channel 4 and ITV's multiplex service Digital 3&4 has appointed Steve Holebrook as its new Managing Director as Greg Bensberg MBE steps down after ten
24/03/2023
Multistory Media Promotes Simone Haywood To Creative Director
MultiStory Media has promoted Simone Haywood to Creative Director, MultiStory London. Having joined MultiStory Media four years ago as Head of Factual
23/02/2023
iWedia Appoints Director Of Business Development And Key Accounts
iWedia S.A has appointed experienced sales leader Go Murata as Director of Business Development and Key Accounts in Japan. Go Murata is an accomplishe
12/12/2023
ITV Studios Netherlands Appoints Managing Director
ITV Studios has announced the appointment of Laurens Woldberg as Managing Director of ITV Studios Netherlands, producer of Oogappels (Loved Ones), the
22/11/2023
Broadpeak Appoints Sales Director LATAM
Broadpeak® has announced that Cristiano Barbieri has joined the company as Sales Director LATAM. Cristiano will focus on growing Broadpeak’s sales wit