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www.postmagazine.com 5 POST JUNE 2015 BITS & PIECES New SmartTrac 1.5 t b c c o n s o l e s . c o m Fixed or adjustable height • Casters or levelers • With or without cabinets • Configured for exactly the way you work Everything within reach. PSYOP COMPLETES EMERALD PROJECT NEW YORK — Moved by color and motion, New York's Psyop (www.psyop.com) recently worked with ad agency McKinney to bring consumers on an epic journey of color exploration through bold and beautiful shades for Sherwin -Williams' spot, Emerald, and the company's Emerald Paint Collection. Under the guidance of director Lauren Indovina, the team looked to fine art for inspiration, drawing from Mark Rothko and Georgia O'Keeffe. It also turned to such iconic sci -fi films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar to inspire unique camera shots such as a seamless move through miniature sets. The main tools were a high-speed arm and the Phantom Flex4k. Using 400-gallon tanks, the team injected paint into the water and moved the camera through the tanks with precise choreography. Once in post, the team relied on Nuke to track, stabilize, and retroject the paint to conform to a CG camera move; Houdini to create some particle effect passes to help with the transitions scene to scene; XSI and Arnold for all rendering; and After Effects/Premiere for offline edit and quick slap comps to feed into Nuke for finishing. IKAN'S VL7E DESIGNED FOR ON-CAMERA SET-UPS HOUSTON — Ikan (www. ikancorp. com) has released a new, affordable, on-camera monitor. The seven-inch VL7e HDMI moni- tor features a 1,024x600 resolution LCD panel that provides vibrant colors and good viewing angles. The VL7e has an HDMI input and output, as well as a composite input. Image flip functionality allows users to position the monitor for optimum viewing. A set of soft- ware features provides guides, crosshair, underscan and grids. For users that might be working with drones, the VL7e has a low sensitivity to signal loss, which maintains the display even as the signal weakens. Ikan is offering the VL7e for an MSRP of $330. For more news on "Displays & Monitors," turn to our feature on page 34.