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RockFish: Blur Lands A Big One 

By Ellen Wolff

RockFish represents the latest calling card from Blur Studio of Venice, Calif. Creating the over-the-top, comic action-adventure of this nine-minute computer animated piece took about four months. Using inhouse short films as vehicles to test new techniques is a venerable tradition in the evolving field of CG, and RockFish lives up to that tradition....

DI: NYC 

By Michael Goldman

The recent Paramount/MTV Films documentary on rapper Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, is believed to be the first wide-release feature film to be digitally mastered using Avid's new DS Nitris system....

2d3 Boujou 

By Brian Drewes Producer/Managing Director Brickyard VFX Atlantic

Commercials, films, and television programs pack in the visual effects, but most of these don't stand out as “effects” to viewers. Subtlety and believability are key....

Indie Intermediates 

By Jon Silberg

Postproduction supervisor David Cook is among those who have discovered that modestly budgeted features can take advantage of the digital intermediate option. To be sure, the DI route is still pricier than going through the traditional optical path, but as more facilities are gearing up to offer the service, costs are starting to come down....

Finding the Gamer's Edge 

By Peter N. Glaskowsky

We live in a world where computers built to play games can cost more and run faster than the computers used to create those games. The most avid gamers are willing to spend large sums to buy the newest hardware and upgrade it frequently....

Master and Commander: Sailing the High—and Real—Seas 

By Ellen Wolff

”Man overboard” is a frightening cry to hear, and seeing a sailor adrift in stormy seas marks one of the most emotional scenes in Twentieth Century Fox's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World....

DI Down Under 

By Michael Goldman

As the digital intermediate process continues to proliferate in the feature film world, the question arises: How can DI be affordable for smaller-budget, independent movies and the facilities that service them, and also allow those facilities to continue to serve their core commercial and video clients?...

Pre-built Graphics Solutions 

By David Tecson President/Founder Edgeworx

To a motion graphics house, a product like 12 Inch Design's ProductionBlox should be anathema. Since original design is the mainstay of such houses, the ability to buy a set of complete graphics for a few hundred dollars has all the vital qualities of a threat to one's business....

A Pretty Peter Pan 

By Michael Goldman

When director/writer P.J. Hogan's five-year-long obsession with making Universal's Peter Pan into a faithful representation of J.M. Barrie's classic story began, the first problem was how to visually represent the famous storybook world on the big screen in a unique way....

Integrate Review — Adobe Creative Suite Premium 

By Frank McMahon

For years Adobe has packaged various of its products together, usually along a common theme such as video or print....

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