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Serving The Full RangeVizrt is more than just the big names. When Sydney based Zspace wentlive with an award-winning bang, they proved that Vizrt is a perfectmatch even for the small players.By Pasravee Baile / Journalist & Media Consultantzspace is a creative collective with dedicated teams specialising in design,film production and solutions for live events, based in the heart of Sydney. Itsfocus is on mixing talent, experience and technology.Vizrt has 542 licensed software dongles on PCs In Australia and NewZealand. There are 71 Viz Artists out there in the lands down under, along with141 SD Viz Engines, 143 HD Viz Engines and 187 Viz Control Applications.Since 2008, Sky Racing Australia’s Viz Ardome system has been automaticallyrecording, cutting and archiving around 1500 thoroughbred horse,greyhound and harness races a week. The biggest week so far was the weekafter Easter this year with 1739 races.BroadcastZspace is a highly successful Sydneybased Design Company providing TVCs andprogram branding graphics to the broadcastindustry and has expanded its coverage withthe establishment of its “Live” department.Zspace’s involvement with Vizrt began in2003 with the launch of Network Ten Sportson Vizrt. Zspace had been providing graphicdesign services to Ch10 and when Ch10Sport made the leap to Vizrt, they were thereto take up the challenge.Zspace worked closely with Vizrt to buildsome award-winning graphics for Ch10MotorSport and Australian Football Leaguecoverage. The MotorSport 3D grid lineupanimation was a huge success for Zspacedesign and showed the ease of data integrationand power of the Viz Engine.The design process involved buildingmodels of the cars in Maya and individuallivery of the cars in Adobe Illustrator,imagery of drivers in Photoshop and the Pitlane buildings from the famous Bathursttrack were taken from the architects CADdesign. All these elements were easilyimported into the Viz Artist and animated tothe finished result.As this animation had to be run in realtime, the performance power of the VizEngine shone through. The graphic wasbuilt to show the grid lineup of all carsinstantly after the “top 10 shoot-out” wherethe top 10 cars time trial for Pole position.The 3D grid animation had to be data drivenfrom the timing system to instantly providethe detailed animation live on air, where thegraphic was rendered in real time via dataselecting the correct car lineup includingteam and car type, driver details with photowhile fly-over animating the whole gridview.The V8 Motor racing has since moved tothe Seven Network along with Zspace redesigninga new look grid lineup and providingthe graphics production services to Ch7.Other involvement in motorsport for Zspaceis also with the Formula One racing wherethey provide production services to theMelbourne and Singapore racetracks. Everyrace other than the F1 is covered by Zspaceproduction and showing Vizrt graphics onall big and small screens around the tracks.One of the key benefits for the Networksand Zspace using Vizrt is the real timerendering where these detailed graphicsanimations can be easily reworked withSponsorship logos giving the Networks avaluable new revenue stream.From these humble beginnings Zspace’suse of Vizrt has grown steadily to nowhaving started their “Zspace Live” department.There is currently 6 full time Vizrtfocussed staff at Zspace providing graphicsdesign and production services basedaround Vizrt products.As this animation had to be run in realtime, theperformance power of the Viz Engine shone through.The Vizrt Catalogue 2011 57