Millimeter March 2004
By Michael Goldman
Even though he has received more than a few Lifetime Achievement awards, George Lucas isn't ready to view his career...
This year, when the ASC picked a winner for best feature cinematography, the judges went for classic stuff....
By Michael Goldman, Photos by Tony Donaldson
Many of the industry’s leading artists attended and were honored at the Visual Effects Society awards dinner on Feb. 18 at the Hollywood Palladium......
By Beth Pinsker
Preproduction on a documentary usually involves rudimentary tasks like culling through video archives and setting up interview times. For the crew of Riding Giants, the prep time for their film on the history of big-wave surfing was all about conquering their fears.
By Cynthia Wisehart
When Robert Redford took his turn around the Digital Media Center at this year's Sundance, it seemed like more than a duty call. ...
By Matt Cowan Loren Nielsen
Digital Intermediate (DI) is a general name that covers a wide range of processes related to the digital postproduction of motion picture films. ...
By Dan Ochiva
It all started with a telecine. In this case, a Cintel Ursa Diamond with the Y-front upgrade, an investment that helped move a small New Zealand television facility into an internationally known production center. ...
By Ellen Wolff
When the cartoon world's top dog Scooby-Doo bounded onto movie screens in 2002, it was the CG animators at Rhythm & Hues who breathed 3D life into Scooby's familiar form. So when Warner Bros. tapped the film's director, Raja Gosnell, to do a sequel, L.A.-based R&H was in the “virtual dog” business once again.
By S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, Dan Ochiva, Bob Turner
With so much concern over the past year focused on the economic health of the production...
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By Bob Turner
At NAB, there is going to be a lot of talk about the “democratization” of film/video editing and postproduction. Software-only applications such as Apple FCP and Avid Xpress Pro, as well as Adobe Premiere Pro (and After Effects), Pinnacle Systems Liquid Edition, and Sony Vegas probably best represent this low-cost trend in post....
By S. D. Katz
If you want a real preview of NAB 2004 go to Circuit City or the electronics department in Wal-Mart. Americans are buying large screen TVs, micro-projection displays, picture phones, digital cameras, hard disk-based recorders like TiVo, and of course DVDs in large numbers....
By Dan Ochiva
Great changes continue to course through storage and networking as plunging hardware costs combine with technology advances such as increased areal densities (the amount of data that can be packed onto a storage medium) to deliver storage that nears an astonishing $1,000 per terabyte....
By Dan Ochiva
Last month, in a pre-NAB tour of development labs and rarely seen production areas such as a high-vacuum evaporated cobalt tape coating facility, Sony outlined an upbeat, wide-ranging vision for its future, albeit one beset by a difficult economic reality....
By Michael Goldman
The New England Patriots aren't the only ones hoping to return to the Super Bowl next year. ...
By Michael Goldman
When Toronto's DKP Effects began production on the initial six episodes of UPN's Game Over, the first-ever primetime CG animated network series for production company Carsey-Werner ......
By Darroch Greer
Siddiq Barmak's film Osama—the first feature film shot in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban—won the Golden Globe this year for best foreign film. ...
By Trevor Boyer
A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter. ...
by Dan Ochiva
Business travel dropped off after the 9/11 tragedy, as many companies found a way to conduct much of their business using technology such as the Internet....
By S. D. Katz
The latest version of Adobe Photoshop would ordinarily be called version 8, except that it is now part of a comprehensive initiative called Adobe Creative Suite. ...
By Kelly Riemenschneider
As a colorist for Video Post & Transfer, I've been able to experiment and push the envelope with some of the best postproduction tools on the market....
By Darroch Greer
To watch Lost in Translation is to release oneself into the hands of a fully formed filmmaker on top of her craft. The film's tone, pacing, and feel are relaxed and confident, deserving of its many accolades. The film is all the more beguiling when one considers that the filmmaker is fairly new and young and that the film was shot from the hip.
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