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Perfecting a Pipeline
By Michael Goldman
DreamWorks' latest CG film, Madagascar, represents the culmination of two important evolutionary steps for the studio's animation pipeline. First, Madagascar's...
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Kingdom Of Heaven
By Ellen Wolff
Modern visual effects techniques like CG sets, virtual extras, and digitally enhanced stunts are making it possible to mount period pieces on a scale that would have pleased Cecil B. DeMille. ...
Tools for FX and DI
By Robert Nederhorst, Digital Domain
By Michael Cioni, PlasterCITY Digital Post
Iridas: Making Effects Work Quick and Easy to Check Back in 2000, you couldn't find an app to do any type of professional, uncompressed frame playback...
Charting the Stars v.3
By S. D. Katz
Movies are escape, and I've been closing my eyes to conjure impossible scenes of revenge, love, and possibility for more then a few decades. Designing movies is daydreaming, but most of the time ideas stay daydreams or become thumbnails and storyboards that fill closets and storage boxes with hope grown dim. If one were to imagine Xanadu, a place where dreams become real, it might be the Skywalker Ranch, the lavish playground and toy shop of George Lucas....
Is Realtime Real? Part 2
By S. D. Katz
A movie and a game from the same title are like Siamese twins. They may share some vital organs, but they're still two distinct personalities...
Step by Step: Extreme Decks
By Ellen Wolff
Matte World Digital, Novato, Calif., is well-known for creating synthetic environments, amassing a long credit list that includes Cats & Dogs, The Last...
Making Sahara Glow
By Michael Goldman
Paramount's Sahara, directed by Breck Eisner and starring Matthew McConaughey, is an old-fashioned adventure thriller in which heroic characters, lost and desperate under a brutal desert sun, manage to maintain ...
Edit Integrate Review — Wondertouch ParticleIllusion 3
By Frank McMahon
Particle animation, such as purple sparks flying from a wizard's glowing wand, can be a time-consuming and frustrating enterprise. In an artistic world,...
Step By Step: Warhammer
by Ellen Wolff
Gamers worldwide know the futuristic world of Warhammer, the popular fighting game from THQ/Relic Entertainment. For the new Warhammer 40,000: Dawn ...
The iPOD and HD
By S. D. Katz
Here's a stunt that sums up desktop video in 2005. Blackmagic Design, the I/O card manufacturer that's setting the bar in price/performance, was looking...