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Step by Step: Valkyrie

By Ellen Wolff

MGM's Valkyrie is a World War II movie in which one of the most intricate visual-effects shots happens not in the heat of battle but during an intimate moment on a dance floor. As we watch Colonel Von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) take his wife's hand to dance...

Reel Impressions

Your Reel at NAB Show 2009
The NAB Show and Reel-Exchange.com present REEL IMPRESSIONS 2009. Submission deadline: Feb. 27, 2009

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Step by Step: Valkyrie

Step by Step: Warhammer

When Games Workshop, creator of the Warhammer franchise, wanted cinematics for its latest game, the company returned to Blur Studio in Venice, Calif., and asked the CG specialists there to outdo what they’d done in the past...

Driving Force

Software spawned by the needs of production studios is a venerable tradition in the animation and visual-effects industries...

Making History

Director Ed Zwick says he gravitates toward period pieces (Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai, among others) simply because “historical moments are a particularly good place to find circumstances where the dramatic stakes are so high in compelling stories...

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Fade to Black: Henry Selick, Director

Fifteen years have passed since audiences became bewitched by the stop-motion classic Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas...

Editor's Notes

Last year, NAB invited users of millimeter's Reel-Exchange service (reel-exchange.com) to exhibit their work on the 35ft. screen in the Central Hall Content Theater, as well as at various locations throughout the show and convention via DVD and online at nab365.com...