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Luma Pictures Moves into Larger Facility Visual-effects house Luma Pictures has completed its move into a larger facility in Santa Monica, Calif. The new 16,000-squar e-foot space allows the company to expand its workload, services and creature comforts. The custom-designed facility features a 100-plus-seat capacity for artists; a plush scr eening room, complete with an NEC 1200 C 2K ster eo projector; and a new motion-captur e stage, rigged with wall-mounted camera tracks to provide performance capture ability in-house. “This has been a long-anticipated move and one that gives us mor e flexibility in how we work with high-profile, resourceintensive projects,” says Payam Shohadai, Luma’s executive visual-ef fects supervisor. “The new office provides our hardworking staff with an environment that is conducive to artistic inspiration and enables Luma to LightSpace CMS Adds Features Light Illusion has r eleased new features for its color -management system, LightSpace CMS. LightSpace CMS provides fully integrated facility-wide color management regardless of the cr eative systems and displays in use for on-set, post and br oadcast workflows. A single LightSpace CMS license can pr ovide total facility-wide calibration capabilities, without the need for multiple systems or a floating license. New developments for LightSpace CMS include advanced color-science manipulation tools aimed at gr eatly improving accurate color management with lower cost color pr obes through the use of advanced Color Blend, Axis Blend and Smooth Filtering algorithms. Changes to the underlying Color Match engine further enhance end results, providing all users with more choice in terms of cost of calibration, achievable quality and accuracy for all color critical workflows. “We develop all the Light Illusion color-management tools and services based on real-world experience, pr oviding tools and capabilities directly applicable to indus-

scale with our client’ s needs and take on even higher caliber project work. “Our core focus r emains in fulllength motion pictures, but recently we’ve had opportunities to delve deeper into the commercial world and pr ovide shots on interesting varieties of work,” continues Shohadai. “The short format allows for a lot of fascinating creativity that Luma finds very attractive.” For additional information, visit www.lumapictures.com.

try requirements,” says Steve Shaw, CEO of Light Illusion. “The continued development of LightSpace CMS with the addition of advanced color-science tools pr ovides enhanced calibration capabilities to all users for full display and film pr ofiling, LUT conversion and manipulation, as well as automatic LUT generation for display matching and calibrated preview.” LightSpace CMS is capable of visualizing film images on digital displays, as well as accurately matching dif ferent displays, allowing operators, colorists, supervisors, cinematographers and directors to be confident that a matched final look is pr esented at every point in the pr oduction and postproduction chain, saving time and ef fort and avoiding unexpected r esults by ensuring any image is accurately portrayed across a wide range of target envir onments and displays. For additional information, visit www.lightillusion.com. ●

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