Dreams Come True

Cynthia Wisehart, Editor

This month, our longtime contributing editor David Leitner will see his film The Technical Writer debut at Sundance. This is a well-earned honor for......

Spielberg Goes Retro

by Michael Goldman

To hear Steven Spielberg talk, it sounds like Catch Me If You Can came along at a point when the director wanted to exit, at least for now, the world of high-end visual effects and dark, futuristic stories of great complexity....

Spike Lee's New York

by Michael Goldman

Although Edward Norton stars in Spike Lee's new film, The 25^th Hour, a Buena Vista release, the real star is Lee's beloved city of New York....

Shooting for Sundance

by D. W. Leitner

Timing can be everything. My partner Michael Yanko and I were in the process of forming our production company, Damage Control, to produce a slate of New York indie features when I encountered Sony's MSW-900P “Digital Super 16” at NAB 2002....

The Fabricated World of The Ring

by Ellen Wolff

There's no shortage of surreal imagery in the DreamWorks release The Ring, but one of the more challenging visual effects scenes doesn't appear to have effects at all....

Evolving Quidditch

by Michael Goldman

Like any good franchise, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets mainly offered the same ingredients that made the first Harry Potter film so successful. But some of those ingredients were reformulated this time around.

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Editing Columbine

by Michael Goldman

For editing aficionados, Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine is a noteworthy effort.

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Digital Blue

by Michael Goldman

Production mixer Joe Kenworthy helped convince producers of NYPD Blue to record the show's audio directly to DVD-RAM....

Sculpting With Light

by Ellen Wolff

“Total mystic weirdness” is the way Image Savant's Richard “dr.” Baily describes the outer-space milieu of Steven Soderbergh's Solaris....

Hot Spots

by Trevor Boyer

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

Cool Graphics

by Beck Finley

The best of broadcast graphics......

fields & frames

by Dan Ochiva

Remember video's initial charm, the lure of instant feedback? Immediately replaying what you just taped delivers a rush similar to crowding around a developing...

Hotware

by Dan Ochiva

A Review of New Products...

SplutterFish's Brazil r/s 1.0

by Chad Ashley, Optimus

Renderers are the hot topic right now. If you spend any time on web boards, you can't read five lines without seeing global illumination, radiosity, or...

Fade to Black

by S. D. Katz

This is a good-guys-finish-first story. It's also a tonic for anyone steamed by the free-flowing dollars thrown at so many wobbly business plans in the...