Millimeter April 2004
By S. D. Katz
The sun has long since set over the South China Sea, and 250 artists are still hunched over their desks adjusting the motion of giants and spaceships in Maya. We're in Shenzhen, the world's fastest growing city and home to the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT), China's largest animation school and studio. The artists are working on China's first CGI feature...
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By Cynthia Wisehart
Runaway production has now become a reality for many Americans, and not just those in our industry. The globalization process perhaps inevitable under...
By Michael Goldman
When Denys Arcand's Quebec-made film, Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) earned a Best Foreign Language Academy Award this year, it marked a major triumph for the film industry...
By Ellen Wolff
Viewers of the Super Bowl broadcast saw the debut of one of the more intriguing commercials to appear this year — Cadillac's "Turbulence." Directed by Nic Mathieu of Anonymous Content...
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By Michael Goldman
When the Discovery Channel hired Citizen Pictures, Denver, to create a :30 promo for its Discovery Quest history show, Billy the Kid Unmasked, the idea...
By Michael Goldman
When you have just 48 hours to make a short movie and less than $1,000, you generally have to take the equipment that's available, according to DP Ryan...
By Michael Goldman
The cost of transferring an entire 35mm feature film to HD and encoding it with the new Windows Media High Definition Video (WMV HD) format for eventual...
By Michael Goldman
Writer/director/producer Kevin Smith, known for quirky, low-budget fare including Dogma and Clerks, says that his recent film, Jersey Girl, qualifies...
By Michael Goldman
At press time, the scheduled presentation at the NAB 2004 Digital Cinema Summit of footage from Dalsa's experimental Origin digital cinematography camera...
By Beck Finley
Nike From out of a manhole and into a vacant lot near an abandoned warehouse springs a robotic crab shod in Nike soccer trainers. A second mechanical...
By Beck Finley
The best of broadcast graphics......
By Dan Ochiva
Over the past year, taking video with you has become a lot easier, as small, Walkman-size portable video playback devices have come from RCA and Archos,...
By Jon Silberg
Corbis Motion Brands, www.corbis.com We're a 35mm film-based library, says Rick Wysocki, VP media services for Corbis Motion Brands. We have some material...
By Dan Ochiva
Rendering Gets Cheaper...
By Dan Ochiva
Twice the Lustre...
By Dan Ochiva
Cool Fisher Light...
By Dan Ochiva
Forecast Consoles MasteRail 2.0...
By Dan Ochiva
Need a Power Dwarf?...
By Dan Ochiva
Portadrive Gains Post Chops...
By Dan Ochiva
Panorama Stitching Improves...
By Dan Ochiva
Take Brazil for a Ride...
By Dan Ochiva
StageTools MovingPicture...
By Dan Ochiva
StoneFly's iSCSI SAN Extender...
By S. D. Katz
With more than 200,000 licenses worldwide, Discreet's 3D Studio Max is probably used by more artists then any other 3D product. It is firmly ensconced...
By Daley Miller, Reel FX Creative Studios
As a producer at Reel FX Creative Studios, a 3D animation and visual effects house, I recently faced production challenges when our company more than...
By Michael Goldman
With Cold Mountain behind him, DP John Seale eased into a more laid-back L.A. shoot for director James L. Brooks' Spanglish. In a recent conversation...
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