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....
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....
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....
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....
By Ellen Wolff
You knew it was bound to happen. At theme parks, museums, and other special venues, stereoscopic 3D images can now bring characters off the screen more dramatically than ever before....
By Frank McMahon
For years Adobe has packaged various of its products together, usually along a common theme such as video or print....
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?...
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....
By Michael Goldman
Shortly after the early December world premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in New Zealand......
By Michael Goldman
Director Anthony Minghella decided early in prepa-ration for Cold Mountain that the production and postproduction of the movie would be unorthodox in several respects...