Millimeter September 2000COVEREditor's NotesChange YourselfCynthia Wisehart Just before Mary J. Blige was scheduled to take the stage in the parking lot at Encore Hollywood, the fire marshals arrived to break up the party. Publicist... FeaturesDark Angel: Behind the PilotMichael Goldman The Two-hour pilot for Fox's newest action series, Dark Angel, debuts in October with inevitable fanfare, largely because the program was co-created by... Golf on the RunMichael Goldman Editors and Servers at the U.S. Open Tiger Woods was not the only one who kicked butt at the U.S. Open Golf tournament in Pebble Beach, California. According... Telecine DreamsCynthia Wisehart Trends and Buildouts You only have to go onto the Telecine Internet Group to know that colorists can and will rage against the machine. Yet, even as they... Follow the MoneyPhilip De Lancie Rental Investments Predict the Future It's no secret that digitization has brought rapid technological change to the acquisition and production of moving... Regional ReportEducation and DiversificationKristinha McCort Chicago and Detroit Deal with Change With the Screen Actors Guild strike affecting everyone from rental to post houses, many in Chicago and Detroit are... A Look at LondonAudrey Doyle Brits Stay Steady While Reaching Across the Pond The state of London's postproduction industry over the last year can be summed up in one word: steady.... Step by StepNutty Professor 2Ellen Wolff The Klumps Ooze With Effects Of all the characters Eddie Murphy plays in Universal's Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, there's one character that no amount... ClipsHybrid HeroKristinha McCort To create the animated character "Hero Guy" for Sesame Workshop's Sesame Street, New York-based Celefex turned to a hybrid 2D/3D process of animation.... Leap of FaithMatt Cheplic While working on the spot "Stuntman" for Clearnet Communications (out of Taxi Advertising, Toronto), Montreal-based Jet Films and Toronto-based TOPIX/Mad... Second LanguageKristinha McCort New York-based Moving Pictures looked beyond the capabilities of the Avid Symphony when offlining Sesame Workshop's Sesame English (co-produced by Berlitz,... Sound TravelsMatt Cheplic While ad agency creatives enjoy going to post houses or recording studios, sometimes schedules are too tight for such trips. That's when RoomService comes... Civil War in HDMichael Goldman Like several of the HD features that entered production in the last year, Kentucky's Peridot Pictures Civil War film, The Greatest Adventure of My Life,... Blue AngelMichael Goldman Fox's highly anticipated Dark Angel pilot, James Cameron's first television production (see page 28 for a detailed look at the making of the pilot), opens... Odd Little Bank ManMichael Goldman In the U.K., a peculiar, animated "spokestoon" recently made waves promoting England's First Direct Bank. Three black-and-white commercials, airing on... Clay RayMichael Goldman During his lengthy career, Ray Harryhausen animated just about every kind of creature, animal, spaceship, and freak known to man. But it wasn't until... Fields and FramesFields & FramesDan Ochiva The rumors sweeping over the Siggraph show floor proved true: Intergraph, the maverick computer systems designer out of Huntsville, Alabama, would abandon... Digital Production NewsDynamic Digital Depth Delivers 3DDan Ochiva Dynamic Digital Depth's (DDD) software technology does what at first sounds impossible: it pulls a 3D film or video from your garden-variety 2D footage.... Fight Club DVD Uses the MediumKristinha McCort In many ways, Fox's two-disc Fight Club DVD release is a pioneer in the DVD medium. It is one of few releases to boast a full supplemental bonus disc... Digital ProductionAll Hail the WebS.D. Katz For more than two decades the driving goal of the majority of Siggraph's membership has been the digital simulation and photographic depiction of a virtual... CG Software Trends: The Convergence of 2D and 3DAudrey Doyle It's not uncommon today for 3D modeling and animation applications to have a limited number of 2D effects and compositing tools, and vice versa. Vendors... Weathering ChangeMichael Abraham Duplication Providers Assess the Future Not so very long ago, you couldn't go wrong with VHS tape. But times have changed, bringing an unfamiliar sense... Planning for 5.1Philip De Lancie Audio Post Facilities Face the Future A few years ago surround work in Atlanta was only a trickle," recalls Steve Davis, director of Crawford Audio in... ReviewSeeing RedS.D. Katz Review: Boris Effects' Red While several applications (Avid's Digital Studio for one) have sought to produce an all-in-one compositing NLE and 3D animation... Beta SightTeraNex Xantus Format ConverterDomenic Rom Solving Conversion to HD I began as a colorist with DuArt and worked my way up to the position of executive vice president, meaning I am responsible for... Fade to BlackJack Green, DP/DirectorMichael Goldman "I often making filming decisions based on the CYB theory - `cover your butt,'" explains longtime DP Jack Green, during a break in shooting his second... |
