During MIPCOM fairs in Cannes representatives of The American International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" has been nominated to this year's 37th edition of the most important award in the world of television industry, Emmy International 2009, in the category "Arts Programming".

"Seven Gates of Jerusalem" is a unique combination of Krzysztof Penderecki's concert with computer animation created in Platige Image. The visual part was made under the careful supervision of the director, Tomek Bagiński, and is the result of a several-month work of the whole team.
The film won the main prize at the International Television Festival in Prague and was nominated to the prestigious award, Rose d’Or.
Full list of nominees can be found over here.

On 2nd October there was a premiere of our studio's latest project directed by Tomasz Bagiński entitled "Bieg" (Run). This short film made in co-operation with "Lech", which is the first serious attempt at a 3D stereoscopic animation in Poland. The film is already available on a specially-prepared website www.lech.pl and then in Multikino cinemas in the whole country.

Thirty people working on a short film every day consisting of 85 takes. The main protagonist travels through 9 worlds. The set design for the actors' choreography was made on a computer and not in a traditional way, using a real set design.

"This may be a real revolution, like introducing colour into film. Seemingly nothing changes and suddenly we are introducing image depth and we are getting the real effect that we are used to on a daily basis. We realize the cinema image is artificial and the 3D one is real" - says Tomek Bagiński, Creative Director in Platige Image and the director of "Run".

The film shows stages of human life: from early childhood to adulthood. According to the director the film is a metaphor of human life. Particular plots have been shown in a dynamic way through a real run of the film's main protagonist. Thanks to the revolutionary motion capture technique used for example in computer games, movements of stuntmen in the animation look natural and realistic foregrounding the 3D effect. It takes place thanks to the use of sensors which are attached to the actors's bodies and enable to reconstruct a character's real movement.

On September 29th, on a special pre-premiere screening of "Bieg" at Złote Tarasy Multikino in Warsaw, Tomek Bagiński and Marcin Filipek from Platige Image shown some behind-the-scenes footage from the production.

We would like to inform about a new service in Platige Image:

Colour Grading on NuCoda Film Master and Film Cutter
Telekino OneLight
Cinema room with digital cinema projector
Remote Non-linear Grading with The MILL London

Platige Image has established co-operation with the Oscar winning, post-production studio The Mill. As part of the co-operation we offer our Clients the possibility of working with colour graders from their London branch. It is possible to observe the effects of their work in 2K definition during all the creative process in real time. Simultaneously, the colour graders will be contacted during video conferences.

More information about the above services in Platige Image and about cooperation with The Mill can be found on our community website here.