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There are huge amounts of activity in the broadcast, gaming, virtual reality, and home displays areas, following are some links to these stories on The Wire Screen Auckland
Tarique Naseem
Tarique has a long history in interactive 3D development. Having worked initially in R&D for BAE Systems, developing systems for future fighter aircraft, he joined Virtuality, a pioneer in virtual reality entertainment systems, where he headed up the entertainments division. He was responsible for some of the company's most successful game titles.
During his tenure there, he moved the company into the emerging bespoke market (now more commonly known as Serious Games), developing virtual reality applications for clients such as Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, M&M Saatchi and Proctor & Gamble.
He later went on to form Maelstrom Virtual Productions, a specialist serious games development house, with clients ranging from Sony Entertainment, GKN Westland, UK Ministry of Defence, and numerous football clubs.
He developed a number of successful commercial titles, such as '3D Dinosaur Hunter' for Dorling Kindersley, and more recently, Pentaque Pro for the Nintendo Wii.
Since his move to New Zealand, he founded another startup, Carbon Imagineering Ltd, which is an emerging technologies think-tank, providing consultancy and incubating numerous technologies and concepts. The main areas of expertise is in game development, serious games, mobile (iPhone/Android) and social web application development.
Tarique has a keen interest in using gaming technology for education and heritage based projects, and has specialised in this area over the last few years. He is currently working on an educational title based around an ancient Maori Pa.
Tim Coddington
With 30 years experience in film, and TV commercial production, Tim Coddington, has been witness to some of the biggest changes that have occurred in the screen industry. Tim, a founding board member of Film Auckland, has been responsible for the production of some of New Zealand's biggest feature films including The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Bridge to Terabithia, and Prince Caspian. Yogi Bear 3D, recently shot in Auckland, is one of a raft of 3D productions that is seeing a premium at the box office, and heralds in a new era of digital cinema.
Richard Elliott
Richard Elliott is a motivated and experienced entrepreneur that utilises' the latest technology to develop ideas into profitable businesses. He specialises in the creation and development of innovative technology solutions for the build and management of Superyachts, real-time 3D games and simulation, iPhone/iPad programming and 3D visualisation.
Mark Schafer
Mark Schafer has spent more than twenty five years working in visual effects production as a software developer and visual effects designer in New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. He has specialized in motion capture and systems for large scale media production. Most recently, he has also applied these large scale production techniques to manufacturing, through his role as Director of Engineering at Right Hemisphere.
At Right Hemisphere, Mark has been pivotal in the design of Deep Server whichenables bulk conversion of 3D CAD files to low res models suitable for the weband efficient change management of authored 3D Instructions from those versioncontrolled CAD files