Notch Showcast

Printworks used to be Western Europe's largest newspaper printing facility, and in 2017 the warehouse was reborn as a 5,000 capacity clubbing space. Renowned for its spectacular audio-visual shows, Rebel Overlay has been at the heart of the bold visuals which define the venues signature style. In this episode, Rebel Overlay founder Spencer Heron shares his design story.

Episode credits:

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production, additional music and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

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FRAY Studio is a multi-award winning studio, and in this episode Creative Director Finn Ross talks us through their work for "Back to the Future the Musical" for the Manchester Opera House. Finn has almost two decades of specialist experience in live show design and has won Tony, Oliver and Drama Desk awards for his work on shows like "The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time", "American Psycho" and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", to mention a few.

FRAY Studio have recently started blog series focused on their efforts to pivot away from using traditional tools such as After Effects for real-time tools such as Notch. You can read about that in their blog, and follow them on Instagram.

If you are interested in donating spare CPU and/or GPU power to Folding@Home and disease research, you can read more about it on their website and join the Notch Fam team here.

Episode credits:

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production, additional music and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

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Bluman Associates create entirely real-time stage visuals for UK solo singer Emeli Sande’s ‘Real Life’ tour. Colourful, theatrical deisgns created by Bluman Associates Kyle Reseigh are controllable live from the lighting desk. ‘Real Life’ toured theatre venues around Europe and the UK. Notch Designer, Kyle Reseigh – along with his colleagues Kumar Kamalagharan and Pod Bluman, as well as Lighting Designer Chris Richardson – explain what went into making the unique show.

Episode credits:

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production, additional music and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

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In this New Year's Eve Special episode of the podcast, our host Kat sits down with three of her colleagues to talk about significant events in 2019 and what the new year might bring for Notch. Guests are Notch CEO and Founder Matt Swoboda, VP of Sales Sarah Cox and VP of Marketing Bent Stamnes.

Episode credits:

Interview by: Kat Kemsley

Edited, mixed and mastered by: Bent Stamnes

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BTS is a seven-member boy band from Seoul in Korea that is taking the world by storm. The Love Yourself World tour sold over 1 million tickets worldwide and hit stadiums in the US, Europe, Asia and South America. All of it Now created rendered stage content, IMAG effects, in-camera AR content, and the technical integration of the entire AR system used for the show.

This production is a world first, using integrated AR camera system on a touring show, and in this episode, Kevin Zhu – designer and technical director of the AR elements for the show – shares his design story.

Episode credits:

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

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The Flying Lotus 3D show is an immersive audio-visual experience featuring a variety of cutting-edge visual content, including real-time animation and camera treatment, all displayed on stereoscopic 3D LED panels. The show is a crazy mash-up of delectably obscene aesthetics, all brought together by Strangeloop Studios, to create a window to another world.

In this episode, Creative Director and founder of Strangeloop Studios David Wexler shares his design story and how an initial hesitation to do a fully 3D show got turned around into enthusiasm by using the right tools for the job.

Episode credits:

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

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This year’s Glastonbury Festival unveiled a brand new stage from Block9, IICON. The twenty-meter head-shaped stage is a structure of megalithic proportions. IICON is an impressive architectural showpiece in and of itself, but at night it comes alive with bespoke content created in Notch. LED panels in the VR visor glow and three-dimensional video maps onto the entire structure animating the surface of the head.

In this episode, Mike Wilson - the lead 3D artist for the project - shares his story, and dives heavily into the details of what it takes to work on a project such as IICON.

Episode credits:

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production, additional music and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

Additional resources for this episode:

• The official Notch showcase page
• Timelapse video of the build (from The Guardian)

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'A World Beyond', the new music video from solo pop-artist Fleurie, tells a story which ventures across time and space. Behind the scenes is an equally adventurous story. The team at MEPTIK immerse Fleurie in underwater and intergalactic dreamscapes with cutting edge XR production techniques.

Utilizing Notch for real-time animation, combined with positional data from the BlackTrax tracking system, Fleurie is able to with the ethereal world around her, creating an exciting journey for the artist that carries through the message from her song.

In this episode, MEPTIK's founders Sarah Linebaugh and Nick Rivero share their design story and more.

Interview and editing by: Kat Kemsley

Produced by: Bent Stamnes

Audio post production and mastering by: Arto Koivisto

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