By Jon Sarvis

Navy Video, NPTC’s training video production unit, won the Education and Training category of the prestigious Australian Effects and Animation Festival Awards (AEAF).

The AEAF is Australia’s peak industry award recognising and rewarding excellence in twelve categories ranging from feature films to commercials.

Navy Video’s winning programme, “Introduction to Antennas”, is an in depth (but non-mathematical) look at electromagnetic and antenna theory.

It was produced specifically for the Frequency Management Course run by DFSS - Maritime CIS Wing (Comms School).

To explain this complex physics to the layman, the programme incorporates numerous highly sophisticated 3D animated graphics. Many of these graphics were generated using mathematical theory to drive the graphics software (3D Studio Max).

The graphics, devised as an instructional training aid, were the brainchild of Mr Alan Nott, an electrical engineer who works for the Army.

But before they could be used in a polished training DVD they needed considerable further work to ‘professionalise’ them.

Navy Video’s Graphic Artist Mr Peter Townly-Jones - ‘TJ’, cheerfully did this time-consuming and tedious task. Mr Jon Sarvis was the producer and scriptwriter.

A full list of NVU’s training DVDs can be accessed on the Defence Intranet Site.

 

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