Step by Step: Warhammer By Ellen Wolff
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...
Performance Enhancing By Michael Goldman
Director Darren Aronofsky's new film The Wrestler isn't so much a story about the title character as it is the wholesale documenting of a character who is, in fact, the entire story....
Review: Panasonic AG-HPX170 By Barry Braverman
The Panasonic AG-HPX170 is a potent filmmaking tool with many compelling features...
Driving Force By Ellen Wolff
Software spawned by the needs of production studios is a venerable tradition in the animation and visual-effects industries...
Making History By Michael Goldman
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...
Step By Step: Quantum of Solace By Ellen Wolff
Working in parallel was a 3D team that built high-resolution digital doubles that could be tracked onto selected shots as needed...
Step by Step: Eagle Eye By Ellen Wolff
Eagle Eye is all about the art of a nonstop chase. Director D.J. Caruso keeps upping the ante as the film’s protagonists try to escape all manner of pursuers. Worst among these pursuers is a missile-bearing drone aircraft that dogs the protagonists even after they drive their car into a tunnel. ...
Collaborative Flash By Michael Goldman
Marc Abraham had a lengthy track record as a movie producer long before he jumped into directing Flash of Genius, but he had no directing experience. Thus, no one was more surprised than Abraham when his veteran cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, essentially treated him “as though I were David Lean, even though it was my directorial debut.” ...
Step By Step: Tropic Thunder By Ellen Wolff
Comic timing is a phrase usually associated with actor pratfalls rather than the effect of a CG helicopter crashing to the ground. But for the DreamWorks/Paramount...
By Cynthia Wisehart
This issue represents a busy month in the field. For our cover story, Ellen Wolff went to the Sanctuary set in Vancouver, British Columbia, to see the...
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