Step by Step: Penelope By Ellen Wolff
It's been nearly a decade since the Academy Award for visual effects was bestowed upon What Dreams May Come, which featured a memorable CG tree that appeared...
Fade to Black: Tony Kaye, Director By Darroch Greer
Tony Kaye, the man who brought us the inside view of racism in American History X, is an uncompromising filmmaker who does not do things by halves. Lake...
Aerial HD By Michael Goldman
Earlier this year, filmmaker Brian J. Terwilliger earned attention for his independent HD feature called “One Six Right: The Romance of Flying”a tribute to the Van Nuys, Calif., municipal airport and the art of small plane aviation. ...
Breaking News from The Briefing Room: MOTU Introduces V3HD
Meet the new hub for your video production studio. With one simple plug-and-play FireWire connection, the V3HD turns your Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer into a powerful HD/SD video production workstation...
Field Testing the Panasonic AG-HPX500 By Craig Erpelding
As previously reported and discussed by Panasonic at its NAB presentation this year, the company has been aggressively promoting the use of its P2 solid state memory cards and camcorders...
True Colors By Michael Goldman
The principal architects for three prominent summer CG animated movies— Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, and Surf's Up—talk with millimeter about the process of designing, building, and executing complicated color palettes for such movies...
Step By Step: The NFL on Fox By Ellen Wolff
This promises to be the year of “transformers,” and Fox Sports Graphics and Blur Studios have already made menacing robots work for them. . Fox chose Blur Studio in Venice, Calif. to animate the 3D-CG show opener for its National Football...
Video Empowerment By Kristinha M. Anding
Mimi Pickering knows what it's like to be given a chance. The documentarian got her first taste of filmmaking in the late 1960s at Appalshop, the multi-disciplinary...
Display Tools: TV One By Charissa Young
With the 1T-AVPC-HDMI video scaler, TV One makes HDMI conversion one step easier. ...
Digital Acrobatics By Michael Goldman
At Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., as work on Spider-Man 3 winds down, many of the key players behind the film’s visual effects extravaganza (just less than 1,000 shots) are finally starting to contemplate life without the spider...