Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Between last year's NAB and now, Intel has gone through one of its most productive periods in history, delivering the new Core 2 Duo chip and the new...

Fade to Black: Zhang Yimou, Director  

By Darroch Greer

Zhang Yimou is the greatest name in Chinese cinema. He is best known for his moving parables of Chinese life starring the radiant Gong Li Red Sorghum,...

The Sundance Beat 

By Cynthia Wisehart

If you know Joe Beirne, you've heard him worry out loud. Not in a panicky way he just waits to be sure everything has worked before he starts taking compliments....

Strange Workflow 

By Craig Erpelding

Mike Belmont (pseudonym M dot Strange) used his self-invented process to create the fully animated Sundance feature, We Are the Strange. Belmont wrote,...

Painterly Rotoscope 

By Michael Goldman

On his ultra low-budget Sundance feature, Year of the Fish, David Kaplan used rotoscoping techniques over live-action imagery shot with a Sony DSR-PD170...

Beta Sight: Autodesk Toxik 2007 

By Phil Brennan Asylum Visual Effects

I've been involved with film and commercial visual effects now for 17 years, and I have been at Asylum Visual Effects since 1999 working on films such...

Fade to Black: Stefen Fangmeier, Director  

By Ellen Wolff

When Stefen Fangmeier prepared to make Eragon, a fantasy featuring a 3,000lb. flying blue dragon, he wasn't concerned about creating a CG star. The dragon...

Fade to Black:
Pedro Almodóvar, Director  

By Darroch Greer

A movie is something that is alive, completely alive, Pedro Almodovar says. You need to have control, because it's so much alive that it can be something...

Ron Howard to Receive ASC Board of Governors Award 

Ron Howard will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Board of Governors Award, which is presented annually to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to advancing the art of filmmaking....

Online Opportunities 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Over a nearly 40-year history, leading filmmakers have been generous with us giving interviews that were directed at their peers and, as a result, took...