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bits & pieces H Engine Roomrevs up Fox’s NASCAR promos OLLYWOOD — Engine Room was (www.engineroomhollywood.com) tapped by Fox Spor ts to create a series of comic book-styled vignettes that recap the action from each week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Dan Schmit and flect the car sponsorships and the race action. Each week throughout the NASCAR season, Engine Room will create a :30 comic recap tease that will help intro- duce the upcoming race.The teases combine anima- tion and live action, and are produced in just five days. At the foundation of the design are hand-illustrated elements that are being produced by a comic illustra- tion team assembled specifically for the project. Line drawings are created on paper and then scanned and inked with color in Adobe Photoshop.The car shots are produced in Autodesk Maya using a custom toon shader. Car textures are hand illustrated, then inked and texture wrapped onto the 3D car models. Leading the artist team is lead designer/animator Maya is used to create the promo series’ cars. the Engine Room team traveled to the Daytona Inter- national Speedway to shoot footage of NASCAR dri- vers, which would serve as the basis for their comic book alter egos. With these assets in place, the Engine Room design team defined the look of the Fox Sports/NASCAR motion comic, using a high intensity color palette to re- Dave Piedra, who is overseeing the look and workflow for most of the panel elements. He is supported by il- lustrators Frank Gomez and Iain Slack. Eric Heavens is the compositing supervisor chal- lenged with combining all of the CG, graphics and live action elements.The studio uses Adobe Creative Suite 5 to achieve the ultimate result. The first of the series rolled out in February after the Daytona 500, and the 14-episode series will con- tinue until the final race at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in June. London-based Glassworks (www.glass- works.co.uk) has purchased a FilmLight Baselight HD color grading system for its Amsterdam facility, which opened in 2007. Glassworks Amsterdam is a 16- man operation that services local and international agencies and production companies. The new Baselight system enhances the studio’s grading capabilities for their core commercial and broadcast markets, allowing them to handle HD 4:4:4 material. DO MORE, FASTER. NVIDIA® QUADRO® 4000 FOR MAC If you’re an artist, designer, or video professional with a Mac Pro, accelerate your entire workflow with the NVIDIA® Quadro® range of design, animation and video applications, Quadro 4000 for Mac allows you to do more, faster. To learn more go to www.pny.com/quadroformac © 2010 NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Quadro are trademarks or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. All rights reserved. The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2011 PNY Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 4000 for Mac graphics solution. Delivering excellent graphics performance across a broad