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A Night at the Cathedral coming along

stefan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:24:53 +0100

We're really busy right now animating our characters for our latest short film A Night at the Cathedral. Things are going as planned and we hope to have a trailer up for viewing in 2 months.

In the meantime we're working closely with the BMG Group on visualizing The Cube in Dubai. We produced renderings of their bathrooms a while ago. Our latest rendering shows a large suite.

BMG "The Cube" Suite

Running on Drupal CMS

stefan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0100

For studiolampion.com's relaunch, we wanted to come up with something special and widen the site's scope: Add some features here and there, a new section to write about or productions and make everything more dynamic.

Before the re-design we'd been running the site on WordPress. The software served us well, but it became clear along the path that we would have to part ways. It worked, but it's design was really starting to get in the way of our expaning needs.
We required something a bit more robust and flexible, and, thankfully, Drupal is there to fill that need. It took a lot of fiddling with the huge number of available plug-ins and getting a multi-language site online is harder than it should be, but overall we're very happy with the system.

A much bigger problem was getting the site to (somewhat) work in Internet Explorer 6... we now have it in an at least acceptable state. Some elements are all over the place, most effects are disabled and it's slow as hell - but I guess it's readable.

Welcome to our new Studio Lampion website

stefan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:45:29 +0100

As you can see, we've updated our web design to better reflect our style and the values carried by Studio Lampion.
This is the our first major upgrade which also entails the switch of our back-end content management system, so don't be surprised if you encounter the odd bug here or there. For those of you interested in the technical details of the switch, please refer to our post on the Drupal CMS.

We've added a whole bunch of new features to the site and absolutely intend to update on a more regular basis. We've got this new Behind the Scenes production log where we'll focus on letting you know about our latest works. You'll also read about our in-house research and development and occassionally find some nifty tool or script we're releasing.
Then we've also added a section on our shorts films, both finished and in production. This one will hopefully be updated very soon, once we finish production on our latest short film, A Night at the Cathedral.

That's all for now. We hope you enjoy the new site!

Moving in...

stefan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:06:19 +0100

After a few months in our small office in the Rotherstrasse, we've finally made the move to a more proper location. Our new office is in Keithstr. 4-6, located in Berlin's popular Kudamm district right next to the KDW.

Right now we're still in the process of moving everything over and setting up our production facilities. If all goes well, we'll be up and running by the end of the week.