millimeter's The Briefing Room
The Embassy Visual Effects dove deep into alien territory with high- impact effects for the Sony Pictures’ blockbuster District 9, which opened at number one in its opening weekend...
Review: Apple Motion 4 by Franklin McMahon
Apple Motion 4 boasts major advances in the areas of text, camera framing, depth of field, 3D shadows and reflections, credit rolls, and link parameter options....
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Step by Step By Ellen Wolff
A revealing scene in Paramount Pictures’ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra takes audiences on a descent into a vast, underground hangar that’s buried beneath desert sands....
By Cynthia Wisehart
At Sundance this year, I sat in the Filmmaker Lodge with Davis Guggenheim flipping through his iPhone; it was filled with his photographs from his documentary It Might Get Loud, about guitar legends Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White...
High-res Dreams By Dan Ochiva
While Dalsa's dreams of creating the top 4K digital camera are dashed--the company closed its digital cinema division late last year...
Q&A with John Montgomery, Visual-effects Executive Producer for Red Dwarf: Back to Earth By Craig Erpelding
John Montgomery is a visual-effects artist and a cofounder of fxguide.com, a website for high-end visual-effects professionals, and fxphd.com...
Winging It By Michael Goldman
It Might Get Loud Director Davis Guggenheim brought his subjects--guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White--together for the first time...
Review: Noise Industries FxFactory Pro By Franklin McMahon
FxFactory Pro from Noise Industries is a package of expertly designed, powerful plug-ins that generates digital effects for Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion on the Mac OS X platform...
Review: wondertouch particleIllusion 3.0 By Franklin McMahon
Wondertouch has released particleIllusion 3.0 for Mac OS X....
First Person: Creative Group Restores Gojira By Mike Buckner, general manager, Creative Group
There is, perhaps, nothing more satisfying than employing a modern arsenal of advanced tools to rescue and reconvene a classic film...