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BITS & PIECES www.postmagazine.com 8 POST MAY/JUNE 2021 RUMBLE VFX OPENS IN LONDON LONDON — Soho-based visual effects facility Rumble VFX (rumblevfx.com) recently announced their official launch, having set up their business just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The studio creates VFX for the film and televi- sion industries, starting at the earliest stages of conception and planning, and following through to shoot supervision and the crafting and completion of all types of shots. Tim Zaccheo, Richard Costin, Joe Cork and Max Wright set up Rumble VFX at the end of 2019. All have worked in the industry for approximately two de- cades each and decided they were ready for their next challenge — to set up shop on their own. The company is equally strong in both 2D and 3D work. Their work includes contributions to The Crown (Season 4 for Netflix/Sony Pictures), as they were part of the VES Award-winning episode, and completed 80 shots across the series. They recently delivered 100 shots for Season 2 of Pennyworth (pictured) for Warner Horizon Television. Rumble VFX was barely a few months old when lockdown hit. Not surpris- ingly, start-up plans were immediately in flux, but the team was soon up and running remotely. "For our remote setup, we work directly on the workstations at the studio via client machines at each artist's house," explains Costin. "This has the benefit of simplicity as all the networking, software licensing and the like is in place, as well as benefiting turnaround times and security, because we are all collaborat- ing on the server internally as normal and not constantly transmitting files to other local machines." The studio now has plans to slowly start getting back into its Soho space. "I'm sure we're not alone in running a combination of work setups," says Cork. "It's the best of both worlds really. We all miss bouncing ideas off each other in-person, and it'll be so good, both creatively and practically, to get back to real-life reviews." The four founders have numerous BAFTA and Emmy nominations be- tween them. "We wanted to do things our own way as a culmination of all our experience, to choose projects that are right for us and work on our own R&D, with our own pipelines, and put all this together to respond to the expanding market," says Zaccheo. "We are lucky in that we are equally strong in both 2D and 3D, but can also be competitive on costs, as our overheads are reasonably low," adds Wright. "We have some interesting projects in the pipeline and are looking forward to Rumble being part of more high-end TV and feature film projects." ZOO DIGITAL LAUNCHES REMOTE ADR SERVICE LOS ANGELES — Building on the success of its remote dubbing service, Zoo Digital (www.zoodigital.com) recently launched a service for remote ADR. With remote ADR solutions, latency is typically a problem. Taking this into consideration, Zoo is using the same foundation as its proven voice-capture platform, enabling the new service to overcome the challenge. Zoo's ADR platform facilitates recording sessions from either studio or remote locations by creating a virtual ADR stage. Integrated video conferenc- ing and collaboration tools allow actors, directors, dialect coaches and others to work together in realtime as though they were in the same room. Remote ADR from Zoo enables loop groups to record together collaboratively in the same session. Auto-sync tools provide snap-to-sync capabilities to ensure all captured audio is frame-accurate. All pre-release content remains secure in the ADR platform, which benefits from multifactor authen- tication, watermarking, 256-bit encryption and secure video streaming. As no third-party collab- oration tools are required, the solution provides a seamless and secure ADR service. Actors are able to re-record lines easily from any suitable environment. CSSMUSIC.com SIMPLY BETTER! ROYALTY FREE MUSIC $ 99 800-468-6874 Better License - Better Value BETTER THAN ANY SUBSCRIPTION 100 PRE-PAID DOWNLOADS Post-CSS-2-2022.qrk_Layout 1 2/4/21 12:38 PM Page 1