Fade to Black: By Michael Goldman
The day after watching Brad Bird accept his Academy Award for making The Incredibles, Chris Wedge was extremely pleased, even though Bird's creative...
Compositing Tool Roundup By Frank McMahon
Selecting a compositing program is probably the most important and pivotal choice a design studio can make, and increasingly it is a key choice for editors. The compositing application is the one program where all the elementsvideo, stills, audio, and moreare brought together....
Breaking the Comfort Zone By Michael Goldman
Marvin Rush points with pride to twin Apple Cinema HD Display monitors ablaze with colorful imagery from a scene he's directing for an upcoming episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. Rush, a longtime Star Trek franchise veteran, has served as the show's DP since its inception four years ago. Today, however, he's directing an episode titled “Through the Mirror Darkly, Part 2” while his A camera operator, Doug Knapp, takes over his DP duties....
DeckLink Deconstructed By Steve Mullen
Australia's Blackmagic Design has been leading the way to all-digital video production by delivering low-cost SDI and HD-SDI input/output boards for PCs...
Is Realtime Real? Part 1 By S. D. Katz
They come at you from every side, just as quickly your fully automatic weapon cuts them down. In the distance you see the muzzle flash, the late report...
Michael Goldman
When New York-based production company UVPhactory (UVPH) took on all aspects of producing a recent 3:30 music video for hip-hop artist Pete Miser, called...
Step by Step: By Ellen Wolff
Rainmaker has long been a visual effects provider for the Stargate SG-1 television franchise work that has earned several Emmy nominations for the Vancouver-based...
By S. D. Katz
Synthetik Software's Studio Artist 3 is an image-synthesis program that can be used to paint original compositions by hand. In that way it's similar to...
By S. D. Katz
At NAB 2004, Apple's Motion press conference was a rock concert, and the best demo at the show. Journalists packed into a room to watch what seemed to...
Step By Step: By Ellen Wolff
Watching a yellow submarine descend into an ocean of speckled diamond tuna and crayola pony fish, you know this is no ordinary water world. It's a dive...