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Developing Drop

By Ellen Wolff

Software tools for visual effects include such hall-of-fame names as Autodesk Maya, Side Effects Software Houdini, and Pixar RenderMan, but with each passing year, VFX studios worldwide are expanding the standard toolkit to meet increasingly ambitious production challenges...

Webcast Series

Secrets of Field Recording in the Tapeless Era

Reel-Exchange

Top Facilities Resource Report
Check out the September 2009 Top Facilities Resource Report from millimeter and Reel-Exchange.com.

Webcast Series

Digital Content Producer Webcast Series AV Control Systems for Training and Education
The critical epicenter of an AV system? Control.

Products

3D Production Comes of Age

No one involved in production can miss the excitement generated over the release of James Cameron's Avatar this past week...

Digital Anarchy Beauty Box

With today's feature productions facing reduced budgets and the proliferation of reality-style shows, finding new ways to prep talent for the camera deserves a closer look...

Boris FX Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX for Avid DS

If you like the wide-ranging capability of Boris FX apps, you'll be happy to know that Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX now runs on Avid DS version 10.2.1 and higher...

Reviews & Features

Creation Step by Step

When director Jon Amiel set out to depict naturalist Charles Darwin in Creation, he wanted to visualize the complex cycles of life that Darwin observed in nature. In Amiel's film for the Recorded Pictures Company, he accomplished this with a startling visual-effects sequence that shows a dramatic interplay between predators and prey...

Sundance Production: Skateland

Robert Hoffman, editor of the Sundance 2010 entry Skateland, traveled from Los Angeles to Austin to join the project after production was complete. In the absence of an editor, assistant editor Yusef Svacina and the producers had completed four separate cuts of their own...

Feature-quality VFX for Episodic TV

Software alone can't deliver top-notch computer graphics. While there is a wide range of tools available to deliver 3D and compositing work with a minimal investment, it takes a combination of talented and experienced artists, producers, and technicians, and a significant technical infrastructure to deliver high-quality visual effects...