Unification 

By Cynthia Wisehart

DreamWorks visual effects supervisor Craig Ring noticed it; Dan Grant did, too (though he would as a pipeline guy): The Siggraph conference had not yet...

Remembering CG Pioneer Bill Kovacs 

By Ellen Wolff

On June 4, 2006, a milestone was marked on the Santa Barbara, Calif., waterfront: the 22nd anniversary of the founding of Wavefront Technologies. Sadly,...

Fade to Black:
Davis Guggenheim, Director 

By Darroch Greer

While Davis Guggenheim's film An Inconvenient Truth will leave no doubt that global warming is a catastrophe in the making, the director himself was a...

Moon Dust 

By Michael Goldman

The 45-minute IMAX film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D uses footage of actors portraying NASA moon explorers. Sassoon Film Design, Santa...

Genesis Green 

By Michael Goldman

On June 30, Superman Returns will no doubt steal the focus from another technologically significant film that debuts that day. Like DP Newton Thomas Sigel,...

Digital Plastic Surgery 

By Michael Goldman

From a visual effects standpoint, X-Men: The Last Stand may be the most complex X-Men film yet. In fact, visual effects supervisor John Bruno says the...

Holy Textures 

By Michael Goldman

For filmmakers, one problem resulting from the con- troversies surrounding The Da Vinci Code involved being shut out of certain locations central to the...

Native Camera 

By Cynthia Wisehart

I was pretty sure in 2002 that Jim Jannard would eventually try to build a camera. He collected them and used them himself; his company, Oakley, had an...

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By Cynthia Wisehart

It had to be Brokeback Mountain. The movie that mainstreamed gay cowboy love ushers in the era of Hollywood movie downloads sort of. Just as Hollywood...