Not Rocking The Boat 

By S. D. Katz

I'm sitting in Vicks, a Beijing club in a KTV (karaoke) room having just finished singing an appalling rendition of Sinatra's My Way. No one is listening...

Xing Xing in the Jing 

By S. D. Katz

Right time, right place. That's what it's like to be an animation company in China today. Production is never easy, but being in the capital city of the...

Money Talks 

By S. D. Katz

Finding a legitimate, studio-authorized DVD in Beijing is not easy...

Audio Podcast: Sean Fairburn's F23 Musings 

As Sony’s F23 camera system continues to excite the cinematography community and infiltrate into the world of feature filmmaking, one of the members of that community particularly excited about the camera is cinematographer B. Sean Fairburn ...

Step by Step: The Fuel In BMW’s Hydrogen  

By Ellen Wolff

When the Visual Effects Society recently chose the year’s outstanding visual effects commercials, the work of Sydney, Australia-based Fuel VFX was among them. The 30 second spot that Fuel created for the BMW Hydrogen 7 automobile features 25 seconds of CG animation...

Audio Podcast: Cutting Iron Man in HD 

Editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., recently chatted with millimeter about his recent work cutting the newest entry into the superhero feature-film sweepstakes—Marvel’s Iron Man...

Indie and HD Cross Paths at SXSW 

By Craig Erpelding

Back in 1987 Austin, Texas' arts community took its local talents to a grander scale when they started the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival—providing a place for regional musicians to play, meet, and collaborate. The event proved such a success that six years later, SXSW expanded to include a movie showcase with the festival. ...

DNxHD Marvel  

By Michael Goldman

Although Iron Man arrives to cinemas largely stereotyped as another big-budget popcorn movie, the character affectionately known as Shell Head to comic-book...

Story Supportive  

By Jon Silberg

The four cinematographers nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscars this year Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood; Seamus...

From Spare to Spectacular  

By Blair Jackson

This is a slightly unusual year in the two Academy Award categories devoted to sound (Achievement in Sound Editing and Achievement in Sound Mixing). Of...