Millimeter February 2005
By Michael Goldman
Director Scott Winant understands that it's taking too long to chop an actor's arm off, and he's a man pressed for time. Winant needs to get the bloody sequence right since it's crucial to the season finale of HBO's critically acclaimed series Carnivàle. The stylish show, currently midway through its second season, tells the story of dust-stained “carneys,” circus freaks, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. ...
This year my Sundance Experience was appropriately defined even created by technology. Specifically aviation technology, as the limitations of airlines...
By S. D. Katz
They come at you from every side, just as quickly your fully automatic weapon cuts them down. In the distance you see the muzzle flash, the late report...
By S. D. Katz
Everyone talks about graphic cards and processor speed, but input devices just don't get the same attention. That's about to change. Today's mice and...
By Ellen Wolff
Rainmaker has long been a visual effects provider for the Stargate SG-1 television franchise work that has earned several Emmy nominations for the Vancouver-based...
Michael Goldman
When New York-based production company UVPhactory (UVPH) took on all aspects of producing a recent 3:30 music video for hip-hop artist Pete Miser, called...
By Michael Goldman
In sound designer Marshall Grupp's experience, few:30 commercials depend as heavily on Foley effects as a new Adidas spot dubbed The commercial features...
Michael Goldman
When visual effects veteran Peter Kuran produced, directed, and released a documentary on the history of the atomic bomb called Trinity and Beyond: The...
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
In November, this column discussed claims made by EE Times reporter Junko Yoshida that Microsoft faced increased resistance in efforts to gain support...
By George Joblove, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Discreet's Lustre has become a major part of the digital intermediate pipeline at Sony Pictures Imageworks. As part of our digital intermediate (DI) services,...
By Dan Ochiva
Help for the Animator...
By Dan Ochiva
Faster Fibre Channel Storage...
By Dan Ochiva
ARRI Digital Systems...
By Dan Ochiva
Handling Really Big Data Sets...
By Dan Ochiva
Bigger and Cheaper Storage...
By Dan Ochiva
Simple Modeling and Rendering...
By Dan Ochiva
Forecast Consoles...
By Dan Ochiva
Streamlining CG Production...
By Dan Ochiva
Study with Syd Mead...
By Dan Ochiva
QuVIS Encore...
By Dan Ochiva
Faster Storage...
By Jon Silberg
Mike Mills is not that impressed with rational discourse, at least not as a means to directing films. Mills, a top-tier commercial and music video director,...
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