VFX Vision 

By Ellen Wolff

Ray Feeney remembers the day in the mid-1970s when one of the first computer- guided special effects shoots was done. Fresh from the California Institute...

24/7 Workflow 

By Michael Goldman

With two episodes and pickups for a third being shot on two different stages and three episodes being edited simultaneously for Fox's hit drama 24, production...

NAB 2007 

It's that time of year again time to check out new gear. The NAB show will draw 100,000 attendees to Las Vegas from April 14 to 19, and from cameramen...

Exclusive: The Muren Factor 

By Michael Goldman

When legendary visual effects pioneer and eight-time Academy Award winner Dennis Muren received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Visual Effects Society...

Step by Step: 300  

By Ellen Wolff

When Director Zack Snyder took on Warner Bros.' movie version of the graphic novel 300, he used wall-to-wall visual effects to create the film equivalent...

Step By Step: Battlestar Galactica 

By Ellen Wolff

It’s been 30 years since Star Wars presented dynamic space battles created via painstaking motion control photography. Today, digital tools enable visual effects artists...

Personal Effects 

By Ellen Wolff

It is arguable that with a computer-animated movie, the entire project is a visual effect. After all, such films depict digitally invented worlds. But...

Sound Standouts 

By Blair Jackson

Between the Achievement in Sound Editing and Achievement in Sound Mixing categories, nearly all of those earning Oscar nods this year have either been...

Fincher Moves Forward 

By Michael Goldman

With his labor to bring Zodiac to the big screen complete (the movie arrives in theaters this week), director David Fincher is turning his attention to his next effort, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—a 2008 release from Paramount. ...

Black Snake Moan HD Post Update 

By Michael Goldman

Almost a year ago, Editor Billy Fox preached to HD Focus about the joys of using HD dailies and HD previews for Craig Brewer’s feature film, Black Snake Moan....