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...
Digital Sundance By Cynthia Wisehart
In 2003, Dutch director Theo Van Gogh and his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Thomas Kist, made one of their last films together with three Sony...
Installation Profile: Investing in HD By Jack Kontney
Faced with an aging infrastructure and staring at the high-definition future of broadcasting, Crystal Cathedral Ministries (CCM) recently decided the time had come to invest in the future by upgrading to HD for production on The Hour of Power...
Adobe Announces Mac Compatibility for Production Studio By Trevor Boyer
In late December, Digital Content Producer spoke with Simon Hayhurst, director of product management for dynamic media at Adobe, about the company's newly announced plans to introduce Premiere Pro...
Edit Expertise: Audio Chops By Gary Eskow
Unless you've been vacationing on Saturn for the last decade or so, you know that Digidesign Pro Tools has become the de facto digital audio workstation...
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...
Aesthetic Power By Jon Silberg
From the grim realities of war to an escape to distant fairylands, no world was too difficult to realize in the five films nominated for the Achievement...
Beta Sight: Autodesk Toxik 2007 By Phil Brennan Asylum Visual Effects
I've been involved with film and commercial visual effects now for 17 years, and I have been at Asylum Visual Effects since 1999 working on films such...
Fade to Black: Stefen Fangmeier, Director By Ellen Wolff
When Stefen Fangmeier prepared to make Eragon, a fantasy featuring a 3,000lb. flying blue dragon, he wasn't concerned about creating a CG star. The dragon...
Digital Déjà Vu By S. D. Katz
Previz used to be something you wanted to be the first to turn a director on to, like a great new band or sushi joint. Today, pre-planning on the computer is standard operating procedure...