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20% OFF Season's Sale on Christmas 3D Animations

2011-12-14T09:01:00.001-08:00

Only for the category of Christmas Animations. Use coupon code XMAS1211 to receive 20% discount for all Christmas Animations. Offer Expires December 23, 2011.

A Rich Stock Footage Database Can Effectively Cut Production Cost

2011-12-14T08:57:00.000-08:00

For the producers, budget issue is one of the major concerns while shooting for anything. In the other hand, a director cannot give his best unless he gets the desired high quality shots. To manage both these cases under a mutual agreement, you have to think about some alternatives. There come the stock footage companies. These companies provide High Definition (HD) footage according to director’s preferences. When you need thousands of dollars to arrange a shooting session, you need to pay few hundreds for getting access to tons of stock footage for editing and publishing. So, choosing the stock footage provider company is a very economic option for a producer.

You can lower the production cost to a huge extent by using the downloadable online stock footage clips now. Certain companies have a huge collection of these pieces, which can be used in any international level film. The examples of a few collections may be named as dangerous wildlife, cities or landmark profile footage, historical videos and Christmas animations and many more like these. As an example, in the movie “Forest Gump”, you have seen three historical figures John Lennon, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. These are all a charisma of the stock footage archive.
There is an amazing truth behind these precious stock footage. Do you know who have the largest archive of such footage? Amazingly, United States Government offices house a huge collection. Different agencies say NASA, US military develops official footage, which you can access from the suppliers. You have to pay a nominal amount to access their video databases. You won’t even have to pay the royalty fees for using these videos in most cases.

Use of these collaborations is increasing day-by-day

Computer graphics and 3D animation technology have got a great hype in the past decade. If only a few A budget films had access to 3D animation just a decade ago, now more and more animation studios can produce a virtual hd clips using the latest graphics resources. And this development makes the stock footages more popular. They can be edited, developed and combined easily and look lively than ever.

If you want to collect these clips from the authorized and associated offices or, companies, you have to go to different places, cities, even countries. Some animation studios however have 24/7 store representation. CG4TV.com is a good example of such company. They have all types of 3d animation clips you might look for in their 3D animation footage collection and all their products are available through simple downloadable links. Paying a very nominal charge for these exclusive quality stock footage animations, you can cut the production cost to half or, even less than that.

Animated Dance Stage Virtual Set

2010-10-19T17:30:00.001-07:00

CG4TV just finished work on Animated Dance Stage Virtual Set. First cameras of the set are available for purchase now.

Summer sale

2010-08-10T08:37:00.000-07:00

Summer sale. 10% discount off all CG4TV products. Coupon code: SUM10TW.

The E-spaces / CG4TV team has won 1st Prize for Special Effects

2010-06-13T19:49:00.000-07:00

BREAKING NEWS: The E-spaces / CG4TV team of 3D animators, led by Philippe Van Nedervelde, has won the "1st Prize for Special Effects" at the Breckenridge Film Festival for our work on the movie "The Singularity Is Near" which is the movie version of Ray Kurzweil's book with the same title. We share this prize with the team around Tony Hudson who... worked on the fictional narrative thread of the movie.

In front of a packed audience, the movie's director Anthony Waller accepted the prize on our behalf.

At the same festival, the movie also won 2nd Prize for the most popular movie in the form of The Audience Prize (three awards in this category were awarded). This prize category was the result of members of the audience filling out ballots, on which voters had to list 3 films in their order of preference.

Over 300 movies had been submitted to the festival, and only 52 were selected to compete for which the audience vote was eligible. The movie might have had an even more successful result had the ballot sheets been handed out to the audience members as they left the theater, as nobody was made aware of the possibility of voting for our movie at the time. So that 2nd prize for the most popular movie ('The Audience Prize') was not a bad result either within that category.

Virtual Stage Set

2010-04-19T06:23:00.000-07:00

The Virtual Stage Set was finalized and we are rendering it in final quality.

Free Tutorials for Adobe After Effect and Final Cut PRO available.

2010-04-19T06:19:00.000-07:00

We are working on free Virtual Sets Tutorials for Adobe After Effect and Final Cut PRO.
First video lessons for green screen are now available. We are busy recording the narration for those lessons.

Work in Progress: Talk Show Green Screen Background

2010-03-04T10:35:00.000-08:00

Late Night Talk Show Green Screen Background

We are designing a new stage set and we would like your opinion about how we might improve it. Note that we can also make customized versions of the set to fit the needs of particular projects. To request To discuss customizations, please send us an e-mail at: info@cg4tv.com

Classic layered virtual talk show set designed to be used with real or virtual furniture primarily for late night talk shows. Furniture of any color or shape will work with this classic background. The desk and the sofa will be on separate layers, so you can use one of the two. We plan to add different backgrounds. You can add backgrounds of your own too.

Work in Progress: Stage Virtual Set

2010-03-04T09:49:00.000-08:00

Stage Green Screen Background

We are designing a new stage set and we would like your opinion about how we might improve it.

Animated and still virtual sets designed for entertainment shows such as music performances, award shows, presentations. We plan to add an animated crowd in front of the virtual stage. Running lights and an animated background will create a multi million dollar event atmosphere for this virtual set. The large screen can be used for close ups of on-stage talents as well as for B footage such as logo animations, video clips and more. We also plan to add animated lower thirds and animation loops for the large screen at the top.

Note that we can also make customized versions of the set to fit the needs of particular projects. To request To discuss customizations, please send us an e-mail at: info@cg4tv.com

New Online Resource for Virtual Sets and Royalty Free Animated Footage: CG4TV.com

2010-02-14T15:53:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles, Feb. 15, 2010 --- New online store provides TV and video producers with affordable broadcast quality virtual sets and royalty-free stock footage. All of CG4TV’s exclusive products are available for immediate download in a variety of high definition, standard definition and web formats. A 15% celebratory launch discount is offered to TV and video producers through March 30, 2010 – use coupon code PRA10.

"Custom-made photorealistic broadcast quality 3D animations and virtual sets tend to be very expensive. Our goal however is to provide high quality 3D graphics on a modest budget. If you do not find what you are looking for in our catalog, we will produce it for you at a fraction of the pricing of competitors… as long as we can offer it to others in our store. While this means sharing the production cost with someone else, it does mean you get to be the first to use it. " - says CG4TV's Co-Founder and President, Philippe Van Nedervelde.

CG4TV Royalty Free Virtual Sets

CG4TV, stands for Computer Graphics for Television and for getting 3D graphics make your projects "look like a million bucks"... without breaking the bank.

CG4TV's virtual sets are compatible with virtually all professional chroma-keying and video editing solutions including Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, etc., as they comply with the de facto industry chroma-key standard: layered .PNG file format. There is a free download page offering a watermarked sample of single layered sets. The virtual sets and other product collections are constantly growing.

CG4TV Royalty Free Animated Footage

3D animations and animated backgrounds are other categories of products offered by CG4TV.com . Customers may view and purchase fully royalty-free virtual sets, green screen backgrounds, single clips ranging from looping animated flags to complex Christmas animations with Disney-class production values. All are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing convenient resources for creative professionals around the globe.

Perfect modern solution for celebrity newscasters

Use cases: "Miles O'Brian, the internationally renowned anchor who travels the world relentlessly, uses CG4TV's animated virtual set as a perfect solution to fit his busy schedule.

As he travels the planet, showing up at a specific physical can be quite a challenge for him. On his travels around the world, he carries with him a compact, easy to set up, portable green screen. This way, we put him on the same set for consistency no matter where in the world he is. The CG4TV.com virtual sets are the perfect solution for our show and saved us thousands of dollars in production costs," said This Week In Space Producer and Correspondent David Waters.

“The biggest part of initiating a television program is finding the right aesthetic that fits the brand. Several days were spent doing “virtual set research”, looking at different software and design companies. It was quite clear which company had the best sets. CG4TV.com offered high-resolution images that were vibrant and crisp to fit the professional, polished image we were looking for. The downloadable files with alpha channels, easily enabled our video editor to insert our own footage into a final result of great depth and realism. The virtual set has really added to the production value and feel of the program,” said Eyewitness Everett producer Stephen M. Kessinger.

About CG4TV.com

CG4TV.com is a brand created, owned and developed by the industry-award winning company E-spaces . Incorporated in 1996, E-spaces was one of the world's very first practitioners of interactive 3D graphics, a.k.a. as 'virtual reality'. As a design studio, company produced photorealistic virtual sets, 3D graphics still images, online 3D virtual worlds, 3D animated commercials (some of which airing nationwide in the USA), science and technology visualizations, etc.

Their clients include global corporations such as Intel, Gillette, British Petroleum (BP) and Adobe; TV channels like HBO, Discovery Channel and Fox News; movie studios like 20 Century Fox; top circulation magazines like People Magazine, Bild and HÖRZU; as well as many other household name organizations and companies including NASA, PBS, Ericsson ( Business Systems), the European Commission, Mitsubishi etc. etc.

For more information, please visit www.cg4tv.com.

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