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A Chat With: audio production company On The Sly

Audio production company On The Sly recently when they invited us to take a look around their new state-of-the-art recording studios in Eastbourne. We visited them to learn more about their audio business and podcast space.

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East Sussex College Virtual Production Open Day Engages Young Creatives to Develop & Retain Specialist Skills in the Region

Sussex, UK - 23rd Feb 2024: Racquet Studios, a Sussex-based trailblazer in the realm of Virtual Production, celebrated an immensely successful Student Open Day with East Sussex College at their cutting-edge Eastbourne facility on Thursday 22nd February, offering more than 120 attendees from a range of creative courses a deep dive into the transformative world of virtual content creation and filmmaking.

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A Chat With: Virtual Film Production Masters at Racquet Studios

Following their talk at Eastbourne DigiFest 2023, we were intrigued to learn more about the new technologies being used by Racquet Studios, based in the Devonshire Quarter in Eastbourne. Aside from their mind-blowing virtual film production work, they have been working hard on creating digital twins using photogrammetry and 3D modelling techniques. What does that actually mean?

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A Chat With: Michael Dale and John Coupland at brand agency: Firebrand

This month’s chat took us into the realms of brand strategy and design with Eastbourne-based agency Firebrand. We caught up with Michael Dale and John Coupland to find out about their career journeys, how Firebrand works, how you could get into similar roles, and why they love Eastbourne.

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A Chat With: James Byford, Founder of the Adventures and Wisdom Institute

Innovation has been on our minds here at Chalk Eastbourne over the last few months. From Zunoma winning the Innovation category of the Eastbourne Business Awards, sponsored by Switchplane, to the launch of our Chalk Connect group aimed at inspiring those in our industry to develop their passion projects, it’s got us thinking about how the CDT sector can create more space for innovation in the day-to-day.

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Join us for Christmas drinks at DigiFestive

Following the success of Eastbourne DigiFest, we want to ensure the 'in-person' part of our community continues. So in the spirit of this time of year, we'd love to invite you to "DigiFestive" - our celebratory Christmas get-together...

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A Chat With: Jason Price, Motorsport Design Consultant

Our featured professional in the CDT sector this month is Jason Price, who caught up with us to explain a bit more about what his role as a motorsport design consultant looks like and the advice he’d give to those wanting to get started.

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Calibre Celebrates 25 Years

Celebrating a quarter century in business, Calibre Marketing has been helping clients fly higher for 25 years this autumn. During that time, the company with a hot air balloon as its logo, has taken many clients, from multinationals to small businesses, to new heights.

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Racquet Studios Partner with Canon Europe

Taking place at the Canon Europe booth within the RAI Amsterdam convention centre between Friday 15th and Monday 18th September 2023, Racquet Studios has partnered with Canon to deliver a stunning XR stage...

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