Performance Captured By Michael Goldman
From a technical point of view, Robert Zemeckis'The Polar Express seems destined to do for motion capture what Zemeckis' Forrest Gump did for compositing — to permanently elevate the technique's capabilities and importance in the filmmaking equation. Similar to Gump's approach to compositing, Polar Express takes elements of a long-established technique and uses them in unique...
Tool Time at Pixar By Ellen Wolff
If you were in the Pixar screening room where director Brad Bird regularly reviewed images for The Incredibles, you would have seen a cool, new tool in...
By Michael Goldman
Avid's DS Nitris HD finishing system continued to push into the film mastering realm on a recent documentary from filmmaker George Butler Going Upriver:...
By Dan Ochiva
If you're running an animation or effects facility today, the success of animated images is both a boon and a challenge. Year after year, audiences for...
Digital Self-Improvement By S. D. Katz
Great training manuals are as rare as great software. Perhaps even rarer, since many of the best software products are cutting back on printed documentation. While including Help files built into the software is convenient, most developers don't go beyond explaining basic features and adding a few beginner tutorials. It's up to the users to find innovative training from third-party publishers....
Step By Step:By Ellen Wolff
Reality is only the most popular fantasy, says Richard Taylor, cinematics director for Electronic Arts' latest Lord of the Rings game, The Battle for...
Share and Share Alike By S. D. Katz
Most production pipelines are a mixed environment of competing software, proprietary code, and legacy systems. We may expect companies to resist communicating...
By S. D. Katz
Maya 6 is evidence that the technology slump that began four years ago is ending. The latest software is one of the most comprehensive I've seen from...
By Michael Goldman
DreamWorks Animation was well into preproduction for Shark Tale long before anyone on the team saw Pixar/Disney's Finding Nemo. DreamWorks, therefore,...
Step By Step: Thunderbirds By Ellen Wolff
When Universal Pictures tapped London-based Framestore CFC to handle all 680 effects shots in director Jonathan Frakes' Thunderbirds, the assignment was...
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