Latest Event Information

Sniper's Adobe Digital Video Tour.

12 October 2011 06.30pm.

An exclusive event was conducted by sniper on Adobe Digital Video Tour, this event was held at hotel Green Park Chennai. The four hour session was covered by Mr. Velmurugan the Director of the sniper and Mr. Guru Vaidya Application engineer from Adobe presented the integration of 3dsmax with after effects importing a 3d file inside the after effects as a raw file. This integration is seamless in after effects cs5.5. And also stereoscopic workflow integration with after effects was awesome getting the footages and working on dual layer of compositing. And gave some tips and tricks in motion graphics.     Guru Vaidya Application engineer(adobe)                             C.Purusothaman Head – M & E



Sniper's Autodesk Maya Hands-On Workshop.

07 April 2011 03:50 PM.

Sniper's Autodesk Maya creative suite hands on workshop received a fabulous response from Chennai VFX & Animation community. The two sessions of the first day were fully packed with technicians actively participating in the proceedings and solving all their queries on the spot were the two senior presenters Karthik Balasubramaniam- Autodesk certified Instructor and Lenin - Regional Manager-Technical, Sniper Systems.

This event is a joint initiative of Autodesk & Sniper. This is first of a kind "Hands-On" event for Autodesk M&E Software solutions in India. Autodesk always had the luxury of having top of its class software technology. The vision for this hands on event was to take Autodesk world class technology closer to its actual users, understand their day to day professional challenges and provide solutions at the same time.

"This is an excellent and good attempt to conduct Hands-On session for technicians by Sniper. This is what we expect from our solution providers to be proactive in providing solutions and think "Out of the Box", I would insist Sniper to conduct more and more such events which will immensely help the technicians and the industry in the long run. In earlier seminars we were used to only see what is been done today we got an opportunity to do Hands-On. I appreciate Sniper's efforts and wish them all success", said V. Srinivas Murali Mohan CEO Indian Artists. Animation Xpress - Cult shrine for Animation, VFX, Gaming professionals.
    Lenin - Regional Manager-Technical, Sniper Systems,     Karthik Balasubramaniam- Autodesk certified     Instructor,    V. Srinivas Murali Mohan CEO Indian Artists.



Assimilate Scratch 6 Launched in India by Sniper Systems and Assimilate .

June 15, 2011 2:07pm.

Sniper Systems and Solutions Pvt Ltd exclusive partners for Assimilate in South India along with Assimilate launched SCRATCH 6. This event was held at Hotel Green Park, Chennai and attracted all top colorist and film makers from across south India. Ms. Laura Castelli- alongside Mr. Nacho Mazzini – Vice President – Assimilate did an elaborate two hour technical launch of both SCRATCH LAB and SCRATCH FINISH.

Welcoming the gathering Sniper underlined the need of the hour an affordable yet powerful grading solution that could satisfy the ever growing demands of a Film Director yet shrinking production budgets. As the trend of the day has become packaging all VFX/DI and other film production solutions as one budget package, Any given studio's competitive edge is in the fact that it is able to deliver high quality projects at cost as low as possible, SCRATCH is the only solution that would allow you to achieve this.

Mr. Nacho while presenting said "If you produce dailies on-set for a feature film or in a visual effects pipeline at a FX house, SCRATCH Lab is the workflow tool for you. SCRATCH Lab is the industry's only comprehensive, end-to-end digital lab system designed to bring review, versioning, conform, primary color grading and deliverables all in one fast, intuitive application."

Ms. Laura demonstrated the powerful SCRATCH Features that included:                   
                                                                                                                                                         Laura Castelli
                                                                                                                                                         Scratch Assimilator

Full resolution support for RED RAW, ARRI RAW, Panasonic, DLSR and all other popular camera formats.

Powerful finishing tools.

Fast, highly interactive color grading.

High-speed conform and confidence checking.

Advance audio sync.

Stereo 3D workflow support.

Flexibility and extensibility.

Ms. Laura highlighted the availability of SCRATCH for Mac, Virtually all features are available on either Mac OS® X or Windows 7.The entire demonstration is done using powerful Mac machines and Laura also used her apple iPad to show how easy it is to remote client review and approval with full html support.



Mocha Pro event coverage in Chennai, India.

Mar 01, 2011 7:00pm.

The last day of February was a turning point for the Visual effects industry in South India. In a bleak amiable atmosphere was the lecture hall in Hotel Green park when technicians from most of the high ranked Post production companies stepped in. The presentation which awaited was first of its kind in India. It was the Launch of mocha Pro in the country by Imagnieer Systems and Sniper Systems followed by a professional seminar on its usage.

Presenting the Seminar was Mr. Martin Brennand, Senior Product Specialist of Imagineer System, which works on post production for Movies all around the world. Mr. Brennand has been with the Hollywood Visual effects industry for 10 years and has significant experience in both creative and technical sides of software development. He has played a key role in supporting worldwide customers creating documentation and is well known for his comprehensive tutorial videos. There was a good gathering of enthusiastic crowd who had their eyes fixed on the screen where Mr. Brennand was unfolding the magic behind Mocha pro. He explained how planar tracking was a cakewalk with Mocha Pro. When the presentation was over the audience had their queries answered by Mr. Brennand.

Following that was a small presentation by Mr. Vel Murugan, head of Sniper Systems who unveiled the upcoming launch of Authorized Training Centers for Mocha pro with an international syllabus and certification. He mentioned that there will be special training program for Faculty and there will be many benefits for training institutes authorized by them. NVidia played a significant role in the organizing of the event and there were a few show reels showcased to demonstrate its new Quadro Cuda Graphics Processor which is the talk of the Hollywood VFX industry today.     Mr. Vel Murugan, Director of Sniper Systems,                    Mr. Martin Brennand, Senior Product Specialist of                                                                                                                  Imagineer System