Step by Step: By Ellen Wolff
When Universal Pictures gave writer/director Joss Whedon the chance to turn his TV...
Legato's Laboratory By Michael Goldman
Rob Legato ignores the African elephant lumbering past his Ford SUV during the brief ride up a dusty mountain road leading from to Legato wants to get...
By Michael Goldman
At Match Frame, San Antonio, senior animator Jeff Stoyer says Rome: Engineering an Empire, required the painstaking creation of 3D backgrounds for flyover...
By Steve Pugh Eden FX
Eden FX, a digital effects facility located in Hollywood, provides Emmy award-winning visual effects for feature films and television. Our work takes...
Edit Review Adobe Creative Suite 2 By Frank McMahon
Adobe has unleashed another new version of its Creative Suite: CS2. The first version of CS seemed hard to top, but this second version...
Through the Artist's Eye By S.D. Katz
There are dozens of training manuals, DVDs, and courses for 3D Studio, Maya, Flash, and just about every other popular software program, but what about brushes, pens, and paint? Training materials for storyboarding, matte painting, or concept design are more than hard to find; they're practically nonexistentuntil now...
Step by Step: By Ellen Wolff
Director John Singleton knows a thing or two about car chases after making 2 Fast 2 Furious...
Photoreality By Ellen Wolff
Look at the backlighting on Yoda's ears in Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith or the glints on Gotham City's skyscrapers in Batman Begins, and you'll see telltale signs of CG rendering today. The way light is rendered has always been crucial to making synthetic images appear convincing, but demands for greater photorealism are pushing the art of rendering into new terrain. To meet these demands, software manufacturers...
Step by Step: By Ellen Wolff
Aerial acrobatics are essential in Columbia Pictures' Stealth...
By Jordi Bares, The Mill
As a visual effects company, we are constantly updating our pipeline with tools we believe will enhance our creativity and make production faster, more...