Ramki Sankarnarayanan, Founder and CEO, Prime Focus Technologies demystifies 4K and more in a conversation with CIOL.com
Ramki Sankaranarayanan, founder and CEO, Prime Focus Technologies, juggles with many buttons on the remote control of innovation that he has been wielding for the past few years. And we couldn’t help but talk as much about 4K hype and other tech pixels as we could.
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Ramki Sankaranarayanan authored an article for CXOtoday.com – how Virtualization is simplifying content supply chain
The new age nexus of forces i.e SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) have redefined businesses operations across sectors. Media and entertainment sector was no exception to that. Additionally, exponential growth of new media channels and growing mobile audience is compelling broadcasters to offer content on OTT (over-the-top) platforms. Proliferation of broadband and mobile platforms have changed the way content is being consumed. On the other hand, with Government of India’s focus on enabling digitization of the sector, media & entertainment industry is set to embrace new phase of revolution and change overall content operations ecosystem. While there has been functional digitization through past IT investments, organizations today are fighting the challenge of data silos, leading to significant CAPEX and impacting the overall content supply chain.
Hot on the heels of the VES Award win last week, DNEG has done it again, picking up a BAFTA for their incredible VFX work on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
The Award, which was presented by Professor Stephen Hawking, recognised Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Ian Hunter in the ‘Special Visual Effects’ category, beating off competition from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Huge congratulations to the whole Dneg Interstellar team!
See the team discuss their win with Zoe Ball on the BAFTA website.
The 13th annual Visual Effects Society Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, andwe were delighted to see DNEG walk away with the VES Award for ‘Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal / Live Action Feature Motion Picture’ for the ‘Tesseract’ environment in Christopher Nolan’s epic Interstellar. Congratulations to Tom Bracht, Graham Page, Thomas Døhlen, Kirsty Clark and the whole Dneg team on this ‘stellar’ achievement.