Skills and tools

This is the bench, not the pitch. The books and the Archive tell you what Erathe looks like. These tools are how the shop turns that into an animatic, a costume, a prop, and a trailer. The same rooms still do corporate picture and sound. That work pays the lights. It is not why the page exists.

3D modeling and animation

Studio

Digital audio

  • Cakewalk by BandLab
  • Native Instruments S88 controller
  • 24-inch curved display for larger track/mix views
  • HP Envy i9-12900 Digital Audio Workstation
  • Focusrite Scarlett 18i20
  • PBX 48 Point Patch Bay
  • Peavey CEL-2 compressor / expander / limiter

Monitoring

  • Bose 301 Series III monitors
  • 7.1 surround
  • Sennheiser studio headphones
  • Peavey HP-1 headphone amplifier

Motion picture

  • iBuyPower OC/LC I9/128GB/16TB/RTX 3090
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Sony HD cameras
  • Dolly and track
  • Jib arm, HD monitor, and remote
  • Bogen tripods
  • Stands and flags

Microphones

  • Shure SM58
  • Shure SM57
  • Shure SM7
  • CAD TSM 411
  • CAD KBM 412
  • CAD ICM 417

Instruments

Shop

  • 3D Printing
  • CNC Laser Etching/Cutting
  • CNC Plasma Cutting
  • 16'x 30' Green Screen Cyclorama
  • Lighting Rails

Communications

  • Microsoft 365
  • Teams Phone Systems
  • OneDrive Storage
  • SharePoint

Location Shooting

A range of gear for location shoots. Ready in the case.

Audio Recording

  • 16-channel mixing consoles
  • Sennheiser EW100 G2 series
  • Shure SM58 wireless
  • Shure PGX4 wireless
  • Shure UT4 wireless unit

Playback

  • Acoustic 802 loudspeakers
  • Peavey Satellite loudspeakers
  • Peavey amplifiers

Information Displays

  • 52-inch screen, multi-monitor stand
  • Video projection
  • Amplifiers / splitters / converters

Location Support

  • Enclosed production tent
  • Power cabling
  • XLR spools

Motion picture

  • Sony HD cameras
  • Flight cases
  • Bogen tripods
  • Lowel lighting
  • Reflectors / bounce boards

did you know?

IMC Studios

IMC Studios has been in operation since 1994. Founders John and Bobbi Montgomery have archived thousands of hours of footage across the country. They have been ardent supporters of event video in the Arkansas River Valley, and IMC Studios was a Major Sponsor of the 48 Hour Film Project.