Genus is proud to announce our partnership with Alister Chapman to produce the Hurricane 3D rig.
Alister says "I'm really looking forward to getting the rigs out there into the market place. Producing 3D material is not difficult with the right tools. To date, most 3D rigs have been cumbersome and ridiculously expensive. I hope to change that, making professional level 3D accessible to everyone at an affordable price. I'm also looking forward to providing the training and support that will get rig owners up and running producing there own high quality content.
The Hurricane Rig is already creating quite a stir as it offers incredible performance, professional features and a light weight flexible design that rivals that of S3D beam splitter rigs costing 10 to 20 times as much. The Hurricane Rig will be manufactured by Genus. They manufacture a wide range of very high quality video and DSLR accessories including Matte Boxes and camera support systems, so they already have the expertise needed to take a product from concept through to completion."

Alister Chapman is a professional TV cameraman and editor with over 20 years in the business. Originally training as an electronics engineer Alister has always enjoyed developing new ideas. In the 1980's he helped pioneer light weight in-car camera systems for race cars. He then went on to make use of miniature cameras in all kinds of unusual situations from windsurfing to snowboarding. In recent years Alister has produced natural history documentaries for National Geographic and provided high quality stock footage of extreme weather and other natural events to broadcasters, museums and corporate clients all over the world. Six years ago he started to experiment with stereoscopic 3D using a pair of consumer cameras on a home built rig. That experimental work soon lead to commissions for big budget 3D projects for multi-national companies from Sony to IBM. At the same time he started shooting some of the worlds natural extremes in 3D. These projects and Alister's stock footage assignments often required international travel and with no manufacturer producing a truly portable, broadcast quality 3D HD rig, Alister had no choice other than to develop his own. Over two years his early designs matured into a stable, versatile, lightweight rig that can be packed down into a single flight case. He has used his rig to film in the cold of the Arctic at -36c and in the heat of the Arizona desert.