Fire Horse Studio's onlineFX suite is available for interactive client sessions and finishing. It is coupled with a Digital Betacam deck capable of capturing PAL and NTSC material from a variety of formats
including digital betacam, betacam SX, MPEG IMX and betacam SP.

The suite runs a number of applications making it extremely versatile. All material is aquired in full 601 SDI standard definition. The suite has a full range of plugins such as Sapphire, Tinderbox, 55mm and RevisionFX plugins for interpolation and motion blur.

Clients can enjoy a relaxed atmosphere in a comfortable lounge overlooking the water whilst viewing their project on Grade1 monitors for colour clarity and on a high defninition client monitor for ease of viewing.

The Online suite goes hand in hand with Fire Horse Studio's already highly regarded and refined 3D animation capabilities.

Fire Horse Studio are specialists in 3D computer animation.

Through extensive experience, the team at Fire Horse can offer a unique approach to computer animation and visual effects. Fire Horse Studio functions as a production company for computer animated TVC's with Scotty Wilcox as animation director.

There are no limits to what can be achieved and there are definitely no limits to the range of final output resolutions that can created at Fire Horse Studio.

Standard definition PAL / NTSC

16:9 Widescreen PAL / NTSC

4:3 Anamorphic PAL / NTSC

High Definition

From pre-production planning to post production completion, Fire Horse Studio can guide you through complex visual and logistical problems

Full post production approvals can be viewed online via a protected web area available to current clients. The entire process of a production can be documented as web page based presentations. These are not just ftp area's to download still and movie files - these are full still and moving image presentations with notes and information relating to the current status of all aspects of the production currently underway.

Experience always makes the difference. Fire Horse Studio can bring together the best talent available to deliver a result above your expectations. Simply by the structure of the business and the affiliations with other companies and individuals, Fire Horse Studio can build the best possible team for the best possible solution to your particular production. From initial briefing to final master Fire Horse Studio can create computer generated material for any output media.

As part of a production, Fire Horse Studio can deliver technical notes of camera rigging, full pre-visualisation of sequences and commercials, concept sketches and shoot supervision to ensure that the final product stands the test of time. On set pre visualisation can be extremely helpful to guide actors through the complex concepts within a particular shot. With more shoots being chroma key and actors eye line cues being sticks with blue targets, it helps to provide them with background information through moving pictures of what they are required to provide the director.

Without good design there is no need to begin. Fire Horse Studio can work through a complex series of character design style sheets, and help everyone come to an approval of design and form before the complex construction within the computer begins. Essential to a great animation is the design of the characters and sets. The concepts and strategies behind the movement are also a vital part of everyone's understanding of the underlying character's thoughts and desires.

Fire Horse Studio generates it's spectacular final images by building 3D computer models that will work in almost any situation and lighting condition. If the need arises we can arrange for the scanning of real world objects. This is can be done to an accuracy of 50 microns which is a quarter of the width of a human hair.

One of the specialties at Fire Horse Studio is the creation of world class animation. Depending on your scenario Fire Horse Studio can create an animation via traditional keyframing via library motion data files, or we can arrange a full motion capture shoot of stunt doubles or actors with full choreographed routines. Modeling and texturing are only the beginning, because without perfect animation timing there is no life or character in the final result.

The beauty of fully generated 3D animation is that it suits the print medium beautifully by allowing identical high resolution rendering of elements from the television commercial. Multiple resolution output is something that can easily be achieved with the correct planning of modeling, texturing and compositing.

Golden Soy Beans - Bus side - Original Size 15000 x 2000 pixels

Shoot supervision is often a necessary part of large productions. If required Fire Horse Studio can arrange to be on set, or location at any time with technical tools to measure and sample the real location, provide on set pre-visualisation, or just save time by guidance.

Visual effects are not easy to do well, and it can be often handy to have an independent eye working for you and running a team of skilled professionals. Fire Horse Studio has collaborated with some of the largest companies in Australia and around the Australasian region.

Fire Horse Studio can create entire stop motion TVCs with the beauty of the fluid motion that would be expected from computer animation. Working in conjunction with local model makers and photographers we can create almost anything that comes in as a storyboard.

- 3D Character Animation
- Photo realistic food
- Vehicles
- Products
- Insects
- Environments
- Particle Animation
- Location and Set Extension
- Previsualisation
- Photogrammetry
- On location Light Intensity Sampling
- Foreign language lip sync