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The potential TV series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne will be getting an expensive push courtesy of its production company Britains Talisman Crest Ltd. The company plans to unveil the series at the January 1999 NATPE National Association of Television Program Executives show in an unusual manner; According to the Hollywood Reporter, presentations for new TV programs to broadcasters usually just involve scripts and storylines in a brochure. IIn the case of Jules Verne, the programs producers have already taken a massive risk for an unsold series by actually producing two full episodes to be given out to interested parties at the show. If this approach works, the program itself will be syndicated as 22 hour long episodes.
THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE represents a new standard in high-tech television. Host in a digitally interegrated, 100,000-square-foot facility designed specifcally to huse the project, the Jules Verne Studios emply cutting-edge 21st-century technology to bring to life the most vivid futuristic imagination of the 19th century, that of Jules Verne. The result is a full-service, completely self-contained production studio, from pre-production through principal photography to on-line post-production, and delivery. In addition to one of the largest green-screen stages in North America, the facility houses three extensive sound stages on which are established the extraordinary permanent sets for the series - including Paris Street and Aurora's Gondola.
In order to give Verne's imagination full flight, the Producers have teamed up with Montreal-based Voodoo Arts to create Voodoo High-Definition Studio (Voodoo HD), a new digital visual-effects production and post-production studio under the direction of Richard Ostiguy and William Kendall. Voodoo HD shares space within the larger Jules Verne Studios at the former Angus shops in Montreal, which have been re-designed from the ground up to make possible the most complex innovative visual effects wever created for television. Voodoo HD has in turned entered into a co-venture with Sony, the leader in hight-definition television (HDTV) technology, with Softimage, the most popular computer-animation software developer, and with Intergraph Computer Systems, the company that has taken the graphics workstation market by storm during the past two years.
Sony's HDTV technology combines the immediacy of video capture with an
image quality, comparable to 35mm film. Softimage and Intergraph
Computer Systems have joined forces to create Softimage|DS, a real-time
non-linear editing and digital compositing system, which provides unparalleled
flexibiility in merging live-action production, visual-effects production
and production and post production.
Intergraph
(http://www.intergraph.com) has provided Vodoo HD with five DS 2.0 real-time
dual-stream StudioZ(TM) GT1, eight TDZ(R)2000 ViZual Workstations running
Softimage-3D, and RenderRAX II 40 CPU renderfarm. The combitnation
of all these technologies within one studio means that producers, directors,
and visusal-effects artists can finally enjoy a unique interactivity only
dreamt of in the past.
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Notable TV guest appearances
1."French and
Saunders" (1987) playing "Sally" 1996
2."Professionals,
The" (1977) playing "Terrorist" in episode: "No Stone" (episode No#
5.11) 2/6/1983
"Darkness
Falls" was previously titled "Dangerous Obsession." It stars
Ray Winstone,
was shot in the fall of 1997 on the Isle of Man and may or may
not have been
released in England in February
