By Cynthia Wisehart
Mobility was the trend at Siggraph this year, and not just at the production end of the pipeline. Two technology categories that have become increasingly...
Step By Step: Evan Almighty By Ellen Wolff
Universal Pictures’ Evan Almighty was designed to have visual effects of mythic proportions, and a raft of houses—including the big facilities Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Rhythm & Hues...
Mark In
One day, historians of storage technology will make note of 2007. Just about 50 years after IBM stored 5MB on the first refrigerator-sized hard drive...
Edit Review: Apple Final Cut Studio 2 Reviewer: Jan Ozer
Apple Final Cut Studio 2 is like the proverbial elephant and the blind man your impression depends upon where you touch it. For this review, I'll touch...
Edit Review: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
Introduced just before NAB among a flurry of new product announcements that includes Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe's new version of Photoshop has been buried...
Aiming High By Cynthia Wisehart
Preproduction was done in secret, because parkour is barely legal. The filmmakers were as elusive as the athletes one step ahead of anybody in authority...
By Cynthia Wisehart
This week, three things happened that intersect. I got an eloquent letter from a reader a brief, lucid history of our industry and his career from the...
Return of the 3D Duke By Michael Goldman
One day in 1953, Michael Wayne invited his then-girlfriend, Gretchen Deibel, to attend a 3D screening of Hondo, a new movie by his father, John Wayne....
Restoration Issues By Michael Goldman
The importance of restoring feature films has never been more pressing than it is today, as classic films age and new digital restoration, storage, and...
Tron Then and Now By Ellen Wolff
It's been a quarter-century since Disney's Tron took audiences inside the world of a video game and heralded the dawn of CG moviemaking. Yet its influence...