Kappa Studios and RED USER GROUP

Holiday Mixer December 12, 2012

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It was a great fun to host all the RED User Group Members and friends of Kappa Studios. The turnout was great, the food was awesome and the presentations were engaging. We are happy to announce the lucky winners of the twelve door prizes donated by Tiffen, Verizon Burbank Wireless Plus, New Media Film Festival and i4software.

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Andrew Reyes — Tiffen Dfx visual effects software

Kenyon Woodi — Mach Speed Trio Stealth Pro 9.7” Android Tablet

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New Media Film Festival certificates for entry into the “Shot on RED” category go to:

Edward Chiodo

Mack Collins

Rick Lalonde

Randy Morgan

Christopher Parker

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The winners of i4software’s five SteadFast iPhone stabilizers are:

Thomas Deason

Leisa Elliott

Mar Sorell

Jon Tucker

Mike Wech

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Sunrise to Sunset catering renowned for their delicious craft service provided their Famous Barbeque. The non-meat eaters also had many delicious choices.

Sunrise to Sunset is the sister company of Burbank landmark quality food grocery store Handy Market at the corner of Magnolia Blvd. and Buena Vista St.

If you call Alan Arzoian of Sunrise to Sunset for your production catering needs please tell him how much you enjoyed their food spread at the RED user group meeting.

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Kappa’s DI guru Igor Riđanović and Patrick F.X. Murphy – Head of Kappa’s VFX department (known for his work on Harry Potter, Batman, Avatar, Prometheus, and most recently Annoying Orange),  presented Visual Effects Budget and Pre-Production Planning. We will post parts of the presentation on our YouTube channel soon.

RED is not a kid’s toy, but RED ONE and Scarlet are used on an immensely popular hybrid live action/animation children’s show Annoying Orange on Cartoon Network.

Kappa VFX artists who have helped the transition from YouTube to TV demonstrated how they composite complex shots using the RED, and what they do in Adobe CS6 to make Annoying Orange dominate its target demographic.

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Our member Von Thomas, a DIT and a RED educator brought his full DIT cart to talk about the art and technology of his craft.

Von explained what a DIT does on-set, why most productions need a DIT and how they can afford one.

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Director Brad J. Silverman screened scenes from Grace Unplugged in Members’ Showcase. The Lionsgate drama featuring Kevin Pollack and AJ Michalka is currently in post production.

Brad discussed how he made the transition into the studio system while Film Editor Robert Hoffman and 1^st Asisstant Editor Yusef Svačina took questions on the RED Avid process.

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Cameras, cameras, cameras. As always there were a lot of RED ONEs, Scarlets and an Epic from The Camera Department at Kappa with helpful Scott Snare answering all RED related questions.

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