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Millimeter July 2004

Summer of the Supervisors

By Michael Goldman

According to John Dykstra, the biggest change in feature film visual effects is change itself. Dykstra, the veteran Sony Pictures Imageworks visual effects designer who recently completed effects for Spider-Man 2, simply means that visual effects teams, thanks to advances in technology, technique, and experience, can not only “produce magic,” but do it at a faster pace, continually incorporating changes up until the eleventh hour and beyond......


Editor's Notes

Being First

By Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director

John Logie Baird's simple memorial stands 200 yards down the strand from a crummy, rain-soaked summer carnival overlooking the Clyde estuary and bearing......


Features

The Sound of Justice

By Blair Jackson

Drama series production continues apace and may be on the rise again, thanks in part to the increasing importance of scheduling new programs during the normally fallow summer months....


Step by Step

Step By Step: I, Robot

By Ellen Wolff

In bringing I, Robot to the screen for 20th Century Fox, director Alex Proyas held some aces the appeal of actor Will Smith and the visual effects supervision......


Clips

HD Undersea

By Michael Goldman

Veteran cameraman and equipment designer Pete Romano recently adapted his latest underwater invention the HydroFlex HD RemoteAquaCam for use with Panasonic's......


Trek Tribute

By Michael Goldman

When the Beastie Boys wanted to pay tribute to the original Star Trek show in their latest video, Ch-Check it Out, they asked HD editor Ross Shain of......


Musical Shoot

By Darroch Greer

De-Lovely is a giddy gem, combining the best of movie musicals from the '30s with modern storytelling techniques. More than a bio-pic about Cole Porter......


Hot Spots

Hot Spots

By Beck Finley

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


Fields and Frames

Fields & Frames

By Dan Ochiva

Since the first widely available CPUs rolled off the assembly lines in the late 1970s, the needs of the computer manufacturers dictated microprocessor......


Hotware

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Review

A is for Apple and Adobe

By S. D. Katz

Adobe After Effects 6.5 Adobe After Effects 6.5, the most widely used motion graphics and effects compositing software, shipped in late May as part of......


Fade to Black

Fade to Black: John Turturro, Director

By Beth Pinsker

Part of John Turturro is always missing when he is acting, even when he is at his most intense. Not that anyone would notice. Ever since the lanky Brooklynite......


CORRECTION:

In our SIGGRAPH magazine last month we incorrectly listed SIGGRAPH's Monday Special Session as Software Development in Post-Production. The session is......


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