Millimeter January 2006
By Michael Goldman
Color grading was crucial for both King Kong and Munich, but radically different approaches exemplify the "traditional versus digital" debate. Peter Jackson's King Kong and Steven Spielberg's Munich basically have just two things in common. First, they are two of the most high-profile and important films to come out in late 2005, and second, both relied extensively on carefully crafted color schemes designed to help achieve creative goals and impact audiences emotionally....
By Michael Goldman
The color design strategically planned for Steven Spielberg's historical drama about the consequences of terrorism, Munich, was so important to the story that it can almost be considered...
By Michael Goldman
Like the Lord of the Rings trilogy that preceded it through Weta Digital's production pipeline, King Kong is chock full of digital filmmaking innovations...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Every year, Sundance gets a little more wired as the digital media on the streets begins to rival the screening theaters. People tote camcorders and cell...
By Michael Goldman
The postproduction industry continues to expand existing digital intermediate pipelines toward larger, seamless data pipelines for image acquisition, viewing, manipulation, transfer, editing, and finishing. In the process, new workflows — and differing opinions about them — are cropping up. As discussed in last month's issue, some major facilities (Efilm, Technicolor Digital Intermediates, and Laser Pacific) have recently instituted competitive new digital dailies services......
By Ellen Wolff
Stylized settings abound in Aeon Flux, Paramount Pictures' sci-fi confection with MTV roots and Charlize Theron to boot. Designing the look of the film's futuristic environments required substantial give and take between The Orphanage in San Francisco and Digital Domain in Los Angeles. In one particularly revealing shot, The Orphanage's CG team pulls the camera back from a single apartment window to a POV high above the city where the story unfolds. The lengthy pullback shot ultimately resolves......
By Michael Goldman
Martin Nicholas has upgraded his method for spying into the private world of rare spiders. In last year's PBS miniseries, Deep Jungle, the U.K.-based...
By Michael Goldman
When producers of The West Wing planned the live debate episode on NBC between fictional presidential candidates, they hired an Emmy-winning lighting...
By Michael Goldman
John Gross feels he has come full circle through his work on NBC's Surface. As president of Eden FX, Hollywood, he spearheads the facility's digital effects...
By Dan Ochiva
Will portable video devices really be a beachhead for content creators? Five unions representing actors, writers, and directors think so. Last October,...
By S. D. Katz
Adobe begins 2006 with the biggest makeover ever in its history. With the release of its highly integrated Production Studio Premium bundle this month, the San Jose, Calif.-based...
By Dan Ochiva
Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet Editors 2 is a look suite plug-in that now runs up to 12x faster with graphics cards such as Nvidia's GeForce 7800 GT....
By Dan Ochiva
Alienware now offers a mobile workstation that uses Intel Centrino processors along with Nvidia graphics cards....
By Dan Ochiva
NAS gained a place in post for offering relatively uncomplicated, centralized storage. Now, ONStor ups the throughput ante to deliver Bobcat 2280, a scalable NAS gateway...
By Dan Ochiva
Isilon's IQ 6000 clustered storage system enables users to keep large amounts of unstructured data online...
By Dan Ochiva
CrazyTalk 4 Media Studio...
By Dan Ochiva
Adobe's new Production Studio Premium suite integrates leading applications including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Encore DVD, and Audition....
By Dan Ochiva
Get Flipped...
By Dan Ochiva
Iridas' SpeedGrade OnSet software allows control of color from the on set production through completion. ...
By Dan Ochiva
It had to happen; 2Gbps Fibre Channel ports just aren't fast enough anymore. To keep up with high-volume streaming, and 2K and 4K post storage-maker Medéa tapped Atto's Celerity FC-42XS 4Gb dual-channel Fibre Channel host adapter......
By Dan Ochiva
Avid's Unity ISIS media network offers a highly scalable distributed intelligence architecture for advanced storage needs...
By D. W. Leitner
According to Amnon Band, founder of BandPro Film & Digital, Burbank, Calif., it's a 4:4:4 world. That was the message delivered by representatives of...
By Michael Goldman
Given his animation and visual effects pedigree, Andrew Adamson can't say he didn't comprehend the scope of Disney's Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the...
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Contrasting Colors
The Colors of Munich
King Kong
Data Driven, Part II
Step by Step: Aeon Flux
The Adobe Spa
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