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...

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...

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....

Step by Step: Night at the Museum  

By Ellen Wolff

In Twentieth Century Fox's Night At The Museum, a menagerie of display animals comes alive and heads outdoors from New York's American Museum of Natural...

Test Drive: HP xw8400 

By Jan Ozer

There are (at least) two reasons to buy a really powerful multi-core computer: to accelerate the performance of one application, and to allow you to work...

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