We enable great entertainment design through advanced visualization
Imaginary Labs is pleased to announce the release of Carbon for Unreal 1.4, our single most substantive update to Carbon since we launched in 2021. We have worked hard to improve virtually every aspect of the plugin and give you the best and most flexible entertainment design solution available. To celebrate the launch, we’re giving you access to this powerful tool for 1 month. What will you create?
https://www.carbonforunreal.com/madewithcarbon
We’re thrilled to announce we have a new member of the team! Please welcome Dawson Becker, who will be joining us as a Quality Assurance Engineer and assist with Technical Support for our users. You may recognize the name; Dawson was one of our contestants for the Challenge and was one of 3 winners. We’re really excited to have him onboard as we prepare for our public launch of Carbon for Unreal 1.4- With Unreal 5 compatibility. Stay tuned for more news!
Carbon for Unreal was just used for Carrie Underwood's Residency at Resorlts World, and we made the cover story for this month's TPI Magazine Issue.
Commenting on this more ‘realistic’ style of pre-visualisation was Whitehouse’s number two, Brian Vaughan, the show’s co-Lighting Designer and Technical Director. “We’ve worked with every pre-vis under the sun and this setup just seems to be above and beyond
all the others when it comes to detail and overall smoothness,” he enthused. “One of the benefits is that you’re able to show the end
client the show and they can understand what they are looking at. With most other visualisers, you don’t really know what you’re looking at unless you’re an LD.
Carrie Underwood - Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency, Enter Shikari, Luzia, Touring Family
Are you interested in learning how to use Carbon straight from the source? We are teaching (2) half-day classes on Carbon for Unreal! We'll share best practices and a complete workflow so you can get up and running in no time. All class participants will receive a code for a free 30 day trial license of Carbon for Unreal Design Edition. Sessions are at 9:00 AM and 2:00PM on Wednesday November 17th! https://livedesigninternational2021.sched.com/
Our new Carbon for Unreal support portal is now live! We have options ranging from self help to a issue ticketing system with notifications. We've got your back!
The wait is over! Carbon for Unreal 1.2 is now available to all users. Version 1.2 features a completely rewritten fixture core, a new system for conventionals and accessories, new Niagara VFX System-based special FX, and substantial performance improvements over previous versions. Go to your account on https://CarbonforUnreal.com to download now!
Our various beam rendering techniques now look more unified, and we have adopted lumens as our lighting intensity unit. This results in a dramatic improvement in realism when using real-world camera exposure settings.
We've expanded our fixture system to include robust options for Conventional lights. Now you can add color filters, gobos, and framing shutters to any simple "dimmer-based" lights
Carbon now includes a refreshed FX library that is ready to be controlled with DMX! We have Cryo bursts, low fog, Gerb curtains, fire, Fireworks, Confetti and More!
Make sure you upgrade to 1.2 next week! We've improved frame rate on nearly every aspect of Carbon from the ground up. On top of that, we've tested with DLSS for even more performance.
Now you can connect even more consoles and protocols with Carbon for Unreal. Our Mapping system allows you to specify with universes you want to listen to on each protocol, and merge to internal universes.
We are excited to announce Carbon for Unreal 1.2 will be available for all users on May 10th! Stay tuned for details.
Pixotope and Imaginary Labs have some big news to share!
We are excited to share with you our latest release of Pixotope 1.5 with complete access to Unreal Engine 4.26.1, enhanced DMX workflows for virtual lighting and several other exciting features👏
Read all about the new features in this article: https://hubs.li/H0K_Rwf0
Here's a sneak peek at what we're working on in the lab, we've managed to render 1000 beams with gobos (without lights mind you) at a very high frame rate. This will make it over to Carbon for Unreal in the next major update.
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the long thread, we have a number of updates to share on our development progress with Carbon for Unreal
We just wrapped up a really great day of testing. We were able to repair and calibrate a number of features for a good handful of lights:
• Clay P**y Sharpy
• Clay P**y Sharpy Wash
• Varilite VL6K Beam
• Varilite VL4000 Spot
• Robe Mega Pointe
• Robe Esprite
• Solaris Flare
• GLP X4 Bar 20
Tomorrow we are wrapping up on:
• Mac Aura
• Preliminary JDC1 Support
Additionally, we will go through the lights we have packaged, and make sure they at least turn on and match MA3D reasonably well. If we see anything that is not awesome, we’ll be flagging as “do not package” in our library so we aren’t teasing.
Now for the news you actually want to hear….
The challenge deadline is currently Sunday, and we know you all want to put your best foot forward. Since we haven’t packaged the update yet, this isn’t realistic to put this kind of pressure on you. While we have seen some awesome work in progress, we know some fixtures are not usable. The answer is very clear to us, we need to give you more time. Based on our progress with the lights we’ve put through their paces, we think we can have a really solid offering at the beginning of next week. To give you ample time to put this to use, we’ll accept submissions until midnight Feb 14th. After submitting, we will allow you to continue playing with the plugin until the contest winners are announced before March 1st.
Furthermore, we are working on terms for a temporary “pandemic special” that reflects our desire to help get folks back to work. We’ll share more in the coming days.
We're excited to introduce our all-star panel of judges for the Challenge. All of these represent a variety of disciplines in the live entertainment industry, and will be exercising their decades of event experience to pick the most impressive entries. The winners will be announced February 15th on the Carbon for Unreal User Group as well as https://carbonforunreal.com/madewithcarbon
Please remember all submissions must be received by January 31st using the submission form on the link above to be considered. Good luck everyone!
Our product Carbon for Unreal has a new live website. Check it out!
https://carbonforunreal.com
Carbon for Unreal
Version 1.0 of Carbon for Unreal is now LIVE! This is compatible with Unreal 4.25, 4.26, and Pixotope 1.4. To celebrate the launch, we are announcing the Challenge! By entering, you can use our new plugin for free for one month to see what you can make with it. Full details at: carbonforunreal.com/madewithcarbon
Imaginary Labs is please to announce that our upcoming product Carbon for Unreal will support the MA Lighting viz-key. Official product information here: https://www.malighting.com/product/grandma3-viz-key-4023576/
grandMA3 viz-key is the unique solution for a stable and safe connectivity between third-party visualization tools and grandMA3 lighting control systems. Simply connect the grandMA3 viz-key with the visualization computer and it will enable all necessary parameters for visualization.By definition al...
We are joining the conference shortly! Jump in now and catch Xite Labs, the first presentation of the day! https://hopin.com/events/framework-festival2020b?fbclid=IwAR0xEhxum9Ka4VHeOjIoIse79UmL1D5lTqeYu9SourxmQhfsXPQfdMDAqUU
this registration page covers day 3 & 4 of frame:work festival 2020------------------------frame:work festival is a four day event featuring a selection of international speakers representing all facets of how pixels are used in live events,...
Are you curious about Carbon for Unreal? Want to see how we used it to power our Virtual "Red Alert" PSA? Join our Founder and Chief Architect David S. Perkins for a peek behind behind the curtain at the frame:work December 2020 Festival.
Please join David Perkins on December 11th for his session, Project Build with Unreal and Carbon with.
Full schedule and registration information:
https://framework-community.com/festival2020/
Hibernate or Innovate.... the motto of 2020. While we don't know who said it first, we chose the path of innovation. Our C.E.O. and Chief architect David S. Perkins was recently featured on EventSpeak's "I Love Tech" Podcast talking about how we've spent our year.
https://youtu.be/0HMQNorUlgk
Innovate or Hibernate Welcome back to another episode of I Love Event Tech! On tonight's show, Joel (who is temporarily replaced by his trusted Omnibot) spea...
Emails going out starting THIS WEEK!!!!!!!
Hello Everyone! We'll begin sending out codes for our beta this week. We're excited to get this to everyone, so please be patient as we send in batches to ensure proper support. In the meantime, we'd love to hear what fixtures you use most. What lights do you use the most?
We are soo very close! We appreciate good documentation, so we're putting some final touches to make life easier for our users. Here's the shiny new cover!
Almost there! Nearly done with documentation for our Beta. Stay tuned!
Hi Folks, We're just a few days away from sending codes for Carbon for Unreal Beta. We have about 16 slots available before we close the beta group. if you want in, make sure you sign up here:
Xite Labs is leveling up! Check out their amazing new production for Infected Mushroom using Unreal and our upcoming Carbon for Unreal plugin. This production had over 11 universe of Lighting, Automated Scenery Movement, and Effect triggers from DMX. All Live and in real-time.
Infected Mushroom XR Extended Reality is a live virtual experience created in unreal engine. Using motion tracking with a live virtual world.
Carbon is emerging....
Carbon for Unreal will be entering beta phase shortly. to sign up for our wait-list please visit us at https://www.carbonforunreal.com/
We couldn't be more thrilled as we announce that Tom Thompson has joined our team as Director of Strategy and Business Development!
In support of all who work hard to make events, we stand up with you tonight. Here is a short message we created in the last 4 days using Unreal Engine to raise awareness for our hard-hit industry. We are excited to get back to work when we can, safely. Until then we need your support!
# ExtendPUA
In support of all who work hard to make events, we stand up with you tonight. Here is a short message we created using in the last 4 days to raise awareness for our hard-hit industry. We are excited to get back to work when we can, safely. Until then we need your support!
# ExtendPUA
Tonight we join as a "virtual building" amongst the real ones here in Orlando.
Amway Center
Camping World Stadium
Exploria Stadium
Orlando City Hall
Old Suntrust Building Tower Lights
Historic Empire Building
The VUE at Lake Eola
Magnolia Professional Building
Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center
Lake Eola Fountain
CCR Products Building
Zenith Lighting Inc Building
M2 Onstage Lighting
Patrick Residence
The Winter Park Playhouse
Full Sail University
LMG
In support of all who work hard to make events, we stand up with you tonight. Here is a short message we created in the last 4 days to raise awareness for ou...
We are proud to announce that our C.E.O and Chief Architect David S. Perkins will be featured on this weeks podcast Ahead of the Curve with Geoffrey Platt. We hope you'll tune in for the discussion!
Where are we going virtually? It’s something we are all pondering, especially these days. Visualization has become a very important tool in almost every area we work today, across so many different market sectors we are seeing uses and needs for accurate visualization. During this webcast we will dive into different use cases and areas inside the live entertainment industry where these tools are absolutely necessary for the success of some of the largest performances and installations in the world today.
The importance of visualization
How visualization works
Saving money and time by creating virtualized environments
We proudly present our latest test of our in-house lighting technology for UnrealEngine. This scene features 64 Robe BMFL Wash Beams, and the famous Winged Victory of Samothrace statue at the Louvre in Paris. We support the following features of this light, which can be used individually or together:
Pan/Tilt with Motor time
Dimmer/shutter (including random strobe and pulse)
Zoom and Iris
CMY subtractive color mixing
Gradual CTO
Color Wheel (subtracts further)
Rotating and indexing gobos
4 blade independent framing shutters with Rotating Assembly
Animation wheel
This video was recorded live in real time with no lighting precomputation. Control is GrandMA2, which is transmitting Artnet to Unreal 4.25 using our Carbon Core. This is ready for Previz or Virtual Production. Thank you Epic Games Imaginary Lights George Jackson Unreal Engine The Robe Way
We proudly present our latest test of our in-house lighting technology for Unreal Engine. This scene features 64 Robe BMFL Wash Beams, and the famous Winged ...
Testing day one.... thank you 4Wall Entertainment for hosting our mad science experiment.
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In support of all who work hard to make events, we stand up with you tonight. Here is a short message we created in the last 4 days using Unreal Engine to raise awareness for our hard-hit industry. We are excited to get back to work when we can, safely. Until then we need your support! #WeMakeEvents #RedAlertRESTART # ExtendPUA #SaveOurStages
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