Mililmeter September 2004
By Michael Goldman
For digital filmmaking aficionados, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow's path to the big screen has to be considered the ultimate feel-good story. It goes something like this: In the early '90s, a film-school graduate dreams of making a stylized, independent film combining live actors with digital environments entirely in a computer. He labors for years to make a six-minute rough version of his idea on an early Macintosh laptop in his apartment...
By Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director
The headline in the L.A. Times was The pitch that you won't see coming. The story was about the way advertising is migrating outside the confines of traditional...
By Blair Jackson
Since making his directorial debut in 1980 with the low-budget independent film Return of the Secaucus 7, John Sayles has earned a reputation as one of...
By Michael Goldman
Veteran visual effects supervisor Matt Johnson of Cinesite, London, chuckles at how fast remote collaboration technology has evolved in just a few short...
By D. W. Leitner
Sony's September announcement of the HDR-FX1, the world's first prosumer three-chip HDV camcorder, sent waves of excitement through the professional production...
By S. D. Katz
Adobe After Effects has more than 350,000 users. This makes it a breeding ground for every plug-in developer in the solar system, and a cottage industry...
By S. D. Katz
Science is great. I can now back up my entire digital output from 1990 to 1996 on a single drive the size of a deck of cards, which replaces 10 older...
By Ellen Wolff
When Universal Pictures tapped London-based Framestore CFC to handle all 680 effects shots in director Jonathan Frakes' Thunderbirds, the assignment was...
By Michael Goldman
Production company Endemol USA chose to produce the Fox reality series The Next Great Champ using Sony's XDCAM optical disc system. The show, slated at...
By Michael Goldman
David Fincher's use of Thomson's Grass Valley Viper FilmStream digital camera for commercial work took a new turn this summer during production of a new...
By Michael Goldman
Jim Muro's first experience with a digital intermediate took place on his first project as a DP Kevin Costner's Open Range. For his second DP job, Paul...
By Beck Finley
A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter...
By Stephanie McInnes
The best of broadcast graphics...
by Dan Ochiva
At last year's Society for Information Display International Symposium, scientists from Genoa Technologies presented a paper, Wide-Gamut High-Brightness...
By Dan Ochiva
Put the touch on your tablet...
By Dan Ochiva
RAM to the Rescue...
By Dan Ochiva
More smoke and fire...
By Dan Ochiva
Easy-to-handle motion control...
By Dan Ochiva
Open system DDR...
By Dan Ochiva
Topping off a new GPU...
By Dan Ochiva
Arri's lightweight solution...
By Dan Ochiva
Faster digital delivery...
By Dan Ochiva
Lux Treatment...
By Dan Ochiva
Rosewell m laptop...
By Dan Ochiva
Fire Up Your Verari...
By Paul Chapman, FotoKem
By Paul Chapman
As senior vice president of technology at FotoKem, my focus is clear: to identify and implement the technologies that will help us accelerate and streamline...
By Darroch Greer
For his first feature, Christoffer Boe wanted to make an unapologetically romantic film. Inspired by the great cinema romances of the '30s and '40s, he...
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