Design White Space
White Cyc: Boundless Space
White cyc is a stage background used to make the illusion of limitless space or sky. It is excellent for video and still photography permitting CGI effects to be added to the image. The main advantage of a white filming stage is the capability of making the background virtually vanish creating all kinds of probabilities for lighting, and allows for the photographer’s's subject being filmed to be central stage.
Today’s technology makes it possible for a line of white cyclorama products to be developed to meet the growing demand for white cyc backgrounds in a multitude of environments and applications. This makes it possible for a photographer to have his very own white stage in his very own studio without the need for leasing a studio with a white stage. The ideas of simple assemble and smaller white stage backgrounds came from the founding father of Pro Cyc name Fritz. Fritz built his dream white studio in Portland Oregon. The investment of time and money were great and construction employees labored for weeks building the studio out of plywood and drywall. During construction Fritz kept exclaiming, “There must be a neater way to build a white cyclorama studio?”
Fritz was given his chance to test out his theory while building his 2nd white stage background in Portland after his first white cyc background suffered water damage while filming a special effect. Fritz’s 2nd white cyc studio is still being use in Portland Oregon today and is being hired out to consumers like : Freightliner, Nike, Adidas, and Steinway among many others using the flexible studio. The studio has been repainted about four hundred times since opening, but the walls still remain smooth as the 1st day they were installed.
The revolutionary patented molds developed by Fritz makes his company Pro Cyc one of the planet’s leading producers of modular white cyc background systems. Pro Cyc’s research and development is consistently developing new ideas and products to meet the fast changing needs and demands of today’s media and high-tech industries.
Pro Cyc works closely with their customers making sure they’re achieving the best solution for their wants. Pro Cyc’s engineering can custom design white cyc sets to meet the specialised and demanding needs of their customers. In 2007 pro Cyc enter into the private studio market with a fresh product line reducing cyc technology down to the size of a desktop, which smashed the barrier of catalog photography.
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