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Creation Step by Step
By Ellen Wolff
When director Jon Amiel set out to depict naturalist Charles Darwin in Creation, he wanted to visualize the complex cycles of life that Darwin observed in nature. In Amiel's film for the Recorded Pictures Company, he accomplished this with a startling visual-effects sequence that shows a dramatic interplay between predators and prey...
Sundance Production: Skateland
By Trevor Boyer
Robert Hoffman, editor of the Sundance 2010 entry Skateland, traveled from Los Angeles to Austin to join the project after production was complete. In the absence of an editor, assistant editor Yusef Svacina and the producers had completed four separate cuts of their own...
Feature-quality VFX for Episodic TV
By Rodrigo Washington, CG supervisor, Encore Hollywood
Software alone can't deliver top-notch computer graphics. While there is a wide range of tools available to deliver 3D and compositing work with a minimal investment, it takes a combination of talented and experienced artists, producers, and technicians, and a significant technical infrastructure to deliver high-quality visual effects...
Fuze Box Fuze Movie
By Dan Ochiva
For editors, realtime remote collaboration not only has the benefit of potentially opening you to more clients, but it might be a growing trend considering the increasing hassles of air travel...
Editing for Slow Motion
By Jan Ozer
To illustrate the process of editing for slow motion, I'll work through two test cases using two editors--Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro--and using footage shot with a JVC GY-HM700U and a Canon EOS 7D...
A Decade of Vanguards, #7
By Franklin McMahon
Different postproduction suites, such as Apple's Final Cut Studio and Adobe's Creative Suite, have by and large evolved in the same ways...
Sundance Production: Casino Jack and the United States of Money
By Trevor Boyer
The new documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, directed by Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) got a very timely premiere on Sunday at the Sundance Festival...
Using Motion Templates in Apple Final Cut Pro, Part 1
By Jan Ozer
After shooting, color-correcting, editing, sweetening the audio, and performing other similarly time-consuming project tasks, it's intimidating to think about adding customized animated text...
A Decade of Vanguards, #10
By Trevor Boyer
This post marks the first in a series on the millimeter website wherein our editorial team reveals its selections of Vanguard Awards for the past decade...
Developing Drop
By Ellen Wolff
Software tools for visual effects include such hall-of-fame names as Autodesk Maya, Side Effects Software Houdini, and Pixar RenderMan, but with each passing year, VFX studios worldwide are expanding the standard toolkit to meet increasingly ambitious production challenges...