More from MTV on our commercial

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/02/04/the-super-bowl-commercial-for-the-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-is-right-here/

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter now online

Mediastation are proud to announce our involvement in the production of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter TV commercial & website experience. Both these are to officially launch at the US Superbowl on the 8th February (The most expensive 30 second advertising slot in the world!). Mediastation were commissioned by Rosso Media to produce the CGI and special FX for the commercial along with production of the high-profile website for Universal Orlando Resort.Click this to view our work: www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter

Watch the commercial here:

TV starting to cover it see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHvtpHxQsyk

What’s really incredible is that all this was created with our in-house team, making them one of the only companies in the world which can handle the diversity and quality of production required to achieve all this under one roof. Goto www.mediastation.co.uk to find out more.

Large area 3D scanning

Mediastation have teamed up with professional surveyors at www.msasurvey.com to offer a unique visualisation service. MSA use state-of-the-art 3D scanners to scan and survey any environment - from a single room to a whole complex. While primarily this technology is used for fast and accurate environment surveying, the data produced can be used in virtual worlds as well - giving us endless possibilities to blend the real with the virtual.

The scanning equipment produces something called “point cloud data”, the video below shows the detail that is captured.

This technique means we can produce extremely accurate assets for visualisation and animation. Once captured our 3D artists remove any unrequired data and convert it to a 3D model to use in the virtual environment.  The scan also cpatures colour so texturing is much easier and realistic.

This process can be used for any number of visualistation services, it is specifically usefull for visualising how a new building is going to look it the current environment rather than single flat artist impressions. We can put the camera in any position and output videos or stills for marketing and communications.

Mediastation welcomes new Artistic Director

Mediastation is delighted to welcome BAFTA and RTS nominee David Freeman who has joined our award winning studio team as Artistic Director.     

Dave has worked in broadcast and the film industry for over ten years and produced some very high profile projects for BBC, ITV and Channel 4, working with a broad range of TV and film production companies including Endemol, 4:2:2 and Liquid TV. Dave’s recent credits include the new Doctor Who TV series and the current cinema release Franklyn.

His wealth of experience includes branding, promotions, visual effects (2D and CGI), matte painting, storyboarding, concept art, directing, compositing and editing. His experience has already proved invaluable by expanding our service offering, which has been welcomed by some of our most prestigious clients.

Mediastation offers cutting edge corporate presentations as well as amazing CGI for Film and TV broadcast and having recently secured a high profile 3 year CGI contract away from a major US effects house, Dave’s artistic leadership will be invaluable in exceeding our clients expectations in the years to come.

With Dave part of our extremely experienced team and work pipeline, and our continual drive to exploit the very latest technology; Mediastation can deliver to the highest production values and confidently compete and surpass any CGI facility in the UK or US, at a fraction of the cost.

New HD Mediastation showreel

New showreel now on youtube - once playing, don’t forget to press the HD button for better quality!

Autorun Flash content from a USB pen drive.

Here’s a quick guide to getting your flash content added to the autorun list under Windows (XP SP2 or later).

1. Publish your flash project to an exe (swfs should work as well).
2. Open up notepad and add this text:

[autorun]
open=myflash.exe
action=Run myFlash Application
icon=myIcon.ico

3. Rename “myFlash” in the above code to the name of your application. You can also create an icon file (.ico) to accompany your application (if you dont wish to, you can delete the “icon=myIcon.ico” line.

4. Go to File, SaveAs, and type in autorun.inf in the file name textfield, then click Save.

5. Copy your exe and the autorun.inf file to the root directory of your USB pen drive (along with your ico file if you chose to create one).

6. Next time you plug your USB pen drive into your computer, you will see your application added to programs launcher dialog box that appears.

Mediastation Listed on Hot Frog

http://www.hotfroguk.co.uk/Companies/Mediastation

The seeds have been planted…

Well the time has finally come, we rolled up our sleeves and put on our blogging socks, and have launched the first official Mediastation blog!