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Millimeter July 2005

The Bay Method

By Michael Goldman

Michael Bay freely admits that he broke a few longstanding rules while making The Island for a new studio, DreamWorks, after years partnering with Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney. Among those rules: Never show an unfinished film to studio executives without an audience present, and never screen parts of the movie for the press before it's finalized. Bay says, however, that, while making the movie, he remained committed to his own creative process. ...


Editor's Notes

Siggraph-o-Rama

By Cynthia Wisehart

For me, it works to start Siggraph on Sunday night with the Fast Forward Papers Preview. I'll readily admit that I can't really do most (or really any)...


Features

HD Stock Rising

By Michael Goldman

Veteran director/cinematographer Craig Walters spent much of late 2004 and early 2005 taking four separate trips to the far corners of the world (11 countries in Central and South America, East Africa, the South Pacific, India, and parts of Asia)...


Step by Step

Step by Step:
Stealth

By Ellen Wolff

Aerial acrobatics are essential in Columbia Pictures' Stealth...


Clips

Honoring Minimalism

By Michael Goldman

Veteran sound designer Leslie Shatz says he was shocked and floored when he learned he had been honored for his minimalist sound design work on Gus Van...


Rolling Dailies

By Michael Goldman

Media.net's HD Screening Room Viewer dailies application went mobile for the first time when producers of Monster-in-Law combined the system with a laptop-controlled...


Liberating Liman

By Jon Silberg

Coming out of the corner-cutting world of independent filmmaking (Swingers, Go), director Doug Liman was overjoyed that he could collaborate remotely...


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

We noted in May's column that Google had started to solicit video content, offering just about anyone the chance to upload clips to their servers. ...


Beta Sight

Massive Software 2.0

By Jordi Bares, The Mill

As a visual effects company, we are constantly updating our pipeline with tools we believe will enhance our creativity and make production faster, more...


Hotware

Products: Pixar

By Dan Ochiva

Renderman for the masses?...


Products: Nvidia

By Dan Ochiva

Nvidia's Gelato and Sorbetto at Siggraph...


Products: Maximum Throughput

By Dan Ochiva

More for Linux...


Products: For-A Hanabi

By Dan Ochiva

HVS-Dual Link Hanabi switcher...


Products: Winnov

By Dan Ochiva

Video over IP...


Products: Warren-Rufus Innovators

By Dan Ochiva

Have dolly, will travel...


Products: Beyerdynamic

By Dan Ochiva

MCE 86 II...


Products: Network Electronics

By Dan Ochiva

Routing for a small studio...


Out and About

Out and About

Industry Events...


Fade to Black

Fade to Black:
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker

By Darroch Greer

Werner Herzog's reputation precedes him as a mythopoeic filmmaker who overcomes obstacles of his own devising to capture the grotesque and the sublime...


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