Issue: HD - September 2006

VCE RELEASES HD FX COLLECTIONS

LOS ANGELES - Special effects veteran and Academy Award-winner Peter Kuran of Visual Concept Entertainment (www.vce.com) has released “Pyromania Vol. 1 & 2” and “Visual FX Vol. 1 & 3,” stock footage collections that are both available in high definition formats. 

“Pyromania” is a collection of royalty-free fire, explosions and effects. 

“Visual FX” includes explosions, clouds, smoke, fireworks and star fields. 

The clips are 1920x1080 (24p) QuickTime movies that have been sampled from 2048x1536 (2K) scans and duplicated onto DVDs. Each DVD disc contains 15 image sequences.

“Pyromania HD Vol.1,” “Pyromania HD Vol.2,” “Visual Effects HD Vol. 1,” “Visual Effects HD Vol. 3,” and “TravelClips HD Vol. 1”   are all priced at $199 each. Package deals are also available.VCE has been providing visual effects for the motion picture industry over the past 20 years and has contributed to the films Return of the Jedi, The Addams Family, X-Men 2 and The Last Samurai.