Hollywood Digital

For years now, the advancement of digital cinema has been moved along by an intrepid group of companies who were largely new to film and television professionals....

Spirit's Dimensions

by Michael Goldman

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is hardly standard fare — it's essentially a painterly, epic tale about a young horse coming of age, featuring non-speaking lead characters, long stretches without dialogue, extensive scenes that highlight stylized landscapes, and a hybrid animation approach.

Big Screen Spots

by Kristinha McCort

We've all seen them at the local multiplex: those creations wedged surreptitiously between the usual theater-chain announcements and movie-trailer fare. They are spots for theatrical release, and they present agencies, production houses, and post companies with challenges and opportunities that go beyond broadcast.

Becoming Amadeus

by Blair Jackson

Revisiting a classic for DVD....

SANs for Post

By Philip De Lancie

With the increasing dominance of nonlinear editing and computer-generated effects over the last decade, storage networks for digitized video have become...

Showtime

by Ellen Wolff

The towering glass cylinders of Los Angeles' Bonaventure Hotel make it a landmark favored by filmmakers, and they offered director Tom Dey a high-profile setting for a hostage standoff scene in Showtime, the Warner Bros. comedy starring Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, and Rene Russo. Staged in one of the hotel's wedge-shaped penthouse rooms......

Pre-Viz Panic

Michael Goldman

Officials at Pixel Liberation Front (PLF), Venice, Calif.,

credit director David Fincher with pushing them to expand the traditional concept of CG pre-visualization during their work on Fincher's new movie, Panic Room.

Going Grey

Michael Goldman

Irish animator/director Ruairi Robinson made the odd color-scheme and detailed texturing of his 3-minute short CG film so important to the story that he ended up naming the piece Fifty Percent Grey....

Art of the Artist

Michael Goldman

A recent PBS documentary, Vermeer: Master of Light, uses computer technology to analyze the work of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, showing not only what Vermeer painted, but also how he painted it.

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Hot Spots

by Trevor Boyer

A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter....

Cool Graphics

by Ann Muder

The best of broadcast graphics......

Fields & Frames

by Dan Ochiva

On March 21, a press conference held by Universal, Imagine Entertainment, and Imax announced both the summer re-release of a large-screen version of Ron...

Hotware

A Review of New Products...

After Effects 5.5

By S. D. Katz

After Effects 5.5, which began shipping in January, advances the effort to add perspective and the illusion of three dimensions that was introduced in...

Combustion 2 for Windows

By S. D. Katz

Discreet's desktop compositing, paint and animation system, Combustion, delivered a powerful and promising solution that seemed poised for excellence...

Grass Valley Zodiak

By Tim Deaton

I've been in broadcast engineering for more than 20 years. The last thing I imagined myself doing was going to a trade show, falling in love with a switcher,...

Fade to Black

Dan Ochiva

When he first read Steven Peros' script for The Cat's Meow, Peter Bogdanovich felt that fate was telling me something. The controversy and legend behind...