The New Ren­der Farm has 112 Total Cores of pro­cess­ing power!
To bring things in to per­spec­tive, the old ren­der farm con­sisted of 16 cores.
As of now we can ren­der Cin­ema 4D projects and soon will expand in to include Maya, as well as After Effects.
Muster is our ren­der Man­age­ment pro­gram, and has the capa­bil­ity of ren­der­ing many more pro­grams for future growth. Such soft­ware pack­ages includ­ing 3DStudio Max, Nuke, and Blender.

• Sport­ing twin Hemis (and by Hemis we mean the lat­est in OLED mon­i­tors by Sony)
• Fea­tur­ing two KiPros so you can record ProRes422(HQ) from two cam­eras
• Leader HD dual HD-SDI multi test dis­play
• Mac­Book Pro 17″ for SxS/CF trans­fer, file man­age­ment and FCP edit­ing
• Cup hold­ers (optional)
• Dri­ver (extra)

All on a spe­cial cus­tomized Magliner dolly designed by Race­way Park Enduro 250 win­ner Jamie Heuton.

Con­tact Jamie for a test drive.

The first zoom lens specif­i­cally designed for the Sony F3 lands at HDMG.
It joins our prime lens kit and is the first one in Minnesota.

In video ter­mi­nol­ogy, it’s a 14X lens.

In cine (Super 35) terms, it is an 18-252mm.

To cel­e­brate the hol­i­day sea­son, each year, HDMG donates to sev­eral char­i­ties, but with a twist.
Each employee directs a por­tion of the total dona­tion to a char­ity of their choice.

This tra­di­tion started years ago and has resulted in thou­sands of dol­lars going to orga­ni­za­tions that really need it.

Our audio team was just cranked up to 11 with our newest sound designer, Ben Stauf­fer. Wel­come aboard!

Join us in wel­com­ing Kyle Franke to the HDMG team!

HDMG closes 2 days twice a year for our annual fall and spring Retreat. Check us out in Still­wa­ter enjoy­ing a short break in the beau­ti­ful fall weather!

Together with Angella and Motion­po­ems, HDMG would like to invite you to the free pub­lic pre­miere of this season’s new films on Octo­ber 25th at the Tar­get Per­for­mance Hall in Open Book, 1011 Wash­ing­ton Avenue S, MIn­neapo­lis. There will be two screen­ings that evening—at 6pm and 8pm. All the new 2011 motion­po­ems will be viewed at each screen­ing! A recep­tion fol­lows each screening!

Spe­cial guests include the many video artists who have con­tributed beau­ti­ful films and, poet and BAP edi­tor, David Lehman.

We hope Motion­po­ems will con­tinue to thrive as a cre­ative out­let for the tal­ents it taps amongst us. And we hope to see you all at the premiere.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Susan Marks, John Dehn, and Matt Ehling on their suc­cess­ful regional pre­mier of their doc­u­men­tary, Of Dolls and Mur­der, nar­rated by John Waters. The pre­mier took place on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 28th, 2011 at the Heights The­ater in Colum­bia Heights, MN. HDMG is proud to have con­tributed to this film, with Carly Zuck­weiler tak­ing the reins on the audio mix and sound design and John Gleim cov­er­ing DVD authoring.

Jamie Heu­ton and John Gleim  were up at Wild­cat Sanc­tu­ary today get­ting up close and per­sonal with the local res­i­dents. New video later this year!