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By Steve Pugh Eden FX
Eden FX, a digital effects facility located in Hollywood, provides Emmy award-winning visual effects for feature films and television. Our work takes...
Ancient Animation
By Michael Goldman
At Match Frame, San Antonio, senior animator Jeff Stoyer says Rome: Engineering an Empire, required the painstaking creation of 3D backgrounds for flyover...
FilmLight's Baselight Eight
By Adam Glasman and Asa Shoul, Framestore CFC
When we demo our DI capabilities to clients particularly people new to this field they're frequently blown away by how much we can do in digital grading....
Step by Step:
Four Brothers
By Ellen Wolff
Director John Singleton knows a thing or two about car chases after making 2 Fast 2 Furious...
Edit Review — Adobe Creative Suite 2
By Frank McMahon
Adobe has unleashed another new version of its Creative Suite: CS2. The first version of CS seemed hard to top, but this second version...
Photoreality
By Ellen Wolff
Look at the backlighting on Yoda's ears in Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith or the glints on Gotham City's skyscrapers in Batman Begins, and you'll see telltale signs of CG rendering today. The way light is rendered has always been crucial to making synthetic images appear convincing, but demands for greater photorealism are pushing the art of rendering into new terrain. To meet these demands, software manufacturers...
The Bay Method
By Michael Goldman
Michael Bay freely admits that he broke a few longstanding rules while making The Island for a new studio, DreamWorks, after years partnering with Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney. Among those rules: Never show an unfinished film to studio executives without an audience present, and never screen parts of the movie for the press before it's finalized. Bay says, however, that, while making the movie, he remained committed to his own creative process. ...
Massive Software 2.0
By Jordi Bares, The Mill
As a visual effects company, we are constantly updating our pipeline with tools we believe will enhance our creativity and make production faster, more...
Step by Step:
Stealth
By Ellen Wolff
Aerial acrobatics are essential in Columbia Pictures' Stealth...
NAB 2005
By Trevor Boyer, Dan Ochiva, Steve Mullen, and Bob Turner
Expect to be surprised. And potentially confused. Part of the drama of NAB 2005 will come from the introduction of new technologies such as HDV, which will be a major source of interest—and questions—at the show....