David is currently a senior in-house broadcast designer for KOJO, residing in Victoria, Australia. He has been working in the broadcast industry for over 15 years, predominantly with Viz Artist across news and sport events.
His adventures with Vizrt began with Network 10 Australia, where he started as a vision editor for the news department, using Vizrt infrastructure including MAM, ingest, Easy Cut and Avid integration solutions. He later moved into the graphics team, where he quickly became proficient with Viz Artist. He built templates for news and sports shows, as well as a custom solution for their on-air presentation graphics.
“When I started it took a few days to change or update 10’s watermark. Now however, using a combination of scripting and data-pool, it can now be done on the fly and can be amended easily when changes need to happen.”
After only 3 years of working with Artist, he took the challenge of becoming a Certified Pro Viz Artist Designer, which he believes was only the beginning of learning the capabilities of Artist.
In 2017, David moved into a broadcast design role with Champion Data, which allowed his work to take a predominant place on the sporting world stage. Domestically, he contributed to graphics for 7 Racing, Cricket Australia, Fox Footy, Racing.com, 9 Netball, Fox Netball and AFL stadium scoreboards. Internationally he has made significant contributions to LIV Golf and previous Asian Tour Tournaments.
His favourite thing about Viz Artist is the ability to be creative, not only with design, but scripting custom back-end solutions to make it easier for others to make simple changes which produce a large-scale impact.
“On-air graphics have come a long way since I started, and naturally they’ve also become more complicated. I believe that being able to tell a story, which also looks good, only works well when all kinds of people can contribute to it. Vizrt see the big picture behind what it takes to make this happen, giving Artists and developers the ability to easily create new tools to help include everyone to make that happen.”
