Digital Acrobatics By Michael Goldman
At Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., as work on Spider-Man 3 winds down, many of the key players behind the film’s visual effects extravaganza (just less than 1,000 shots) are finally starting to contemplate life without the spider...
Edit Expertise: Compose Your Own By Gary Eskow
Back in the day, entry into the stock music business required a sizable investment for composers and studio costs, office space, advertising, and other...
By Cynthia Wisehart
At press time, partners Bill Sewell, Taylor Tyng, and Mitch Bassett finally got an office bathroom. And they have earned it. After eight years of building...
Mark In
Should your future production plans include video for the Web? The necessary high-speed connections will be there. According to recent Nielsen//NetRatings...
New DI Pipeline By Michael Goldman
Spider-Man 3 was, of course, a huge digital effects project. Significantly, it was also Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI)'s first 4K DI project, executed at its new facility on the Sony lot in Culver City, Calif....
NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards
At NAB 2007, new digital cinema cameras ruled the show floor. Like everything else in the digital world, these high-res...
Step by Step: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End By Ellen Wolff
Diseny's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been rightfully praised for dazzling character animation, but its CG cast isn't the only advanced animation...
Plasma Portraiture By Tom Patrick McAuliffe and Cynthia Wisehart
Renowned theater director and multimedia artist Robert Wilson was waiting for video to catch up to his imagination. Wilson has always brought fierce nuance...
Edit Review: Telestream Episode Pro 4 Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
The shooter wants a copy of the footage in DV for his demo reel. The client needs it in HD for broadcast or for high-definition DVDs. The marketing department...
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Ever since the introduction of its first Creative Suite in 2003, Adobe has pursued a canny strategy: Integrate its less-popular products with its two...