Millimeter April 2005
By S. D. Katz
Movies are escape, and I've been closing my eyes to conjure impossible scenes of revenge, love, and possibility for more then a few decades. Designing movies is daydreaming, but most of the time ideas stay daydreams or become thumbnails and storyboards that fill closets and storage boxes with hope grown dim. If one were to imagine Xanadu, a place where dreams become real, it might be the Skywalker Ranch, the lavish playground and toy shop of George Lucas....
By Cynthia Wisehart
Our contributing editor S.D. Katz is kind of a previz frontiersman. One of his best-known efforts in what was then an emerging digital artform was the...
By Michael Goldman
Paramount's Sahara, directed by Breck Eisner and starring Matthew McConaughey, is an old-fashioned adventure thriller in which heroic characters, lost and desperate under a brutal desert sun, manage to maintain ...
By S. D. Katz
A movie and a game from the same title are like Siamese twins. They may share some vital organs, but they're still two distinct personalities...
By Ellen Wolff
Matte World Digital, Novato, Calif., is well-known for creating synthetic environments, amassing a long credit list that includes Cats & Dogs, The Last...
By Michael Goldman
A one-hour, HD-acquired special for Discovery's Military Channel, Red Flag, challenged filmmakers from Evergreen Films, Pacific Palisades, Calif., with...
By Michael Goldman
When Steele Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., took the job of filling a Mexican soccer stadium with 40,000 screaming fans for a Spanish-language :30 spot promoting...
By Michael Goldman
National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, a four-part science documentary, was shot two years ago over the course of seven months at dozens...
by Beck Finley
A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter...
By Beck Finley
The best of broadcast graphics...
By Dan Ochiva
Cell phones, not HDTVs, look like the next big thing. Already, new uses extend them beyond yesterday's phones. We use them as watches and alarm clocks,...
By Robert Nederhorst, Digital Domain
By Michael Cioni, PlasterCITY Digital Post
Iridas: Making Effects Work Quick and Easy to Check Back in 2000, you couldn't find an app to do any type of professional, uncompressed frame playback...
By Dan Ochiva
Faster Road Work...
By Dan Ochiva
Better audio to go...
By Dan Ochiva
Workflow Solution...
By Dan Ochiva
Backup Security...
By Dan Ochiva
Intelligent Storage...
By Dan Ochiva
Entry-level Workstation...
By Dan Ochiva
Double Vision...
By Dan Ochiva
A bridge for computers and music...
By Dan Ochiva
Wider Shooting Options...
By Dan Ochiva
Boujou Three...
By Dan Ochiva
VTR to go...
By Michael Goldman
Following her ultra low-budget success with Thirteen, production designer-turned-director Catherine Hardwicke says her second feature Lords of Dogtown,...
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