Millimeter March 2006
By Michael Goldman
As John Lasseter stepped to the podium to accept the Georges Melies Award for Pioneering and Artistic Excellence from the Visual Effects Society in February,...
As a journalist, it is impossible to sit on the sidelines of change. Our industry has been changing dramatically and it's just the beginning of what promises...
By Ellen Wolff
Oscar, the famously nude symbol of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, won't be wearing smart new outfits anytime soon. But one clever CG trend that was clear this year at the Academy's Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards was that clothes — virtually speaking — can make the man...
By S. D. Katz
Pixel Corps is the kind of idea that Buckminster Fuller might have dreamed up in the '60s. But it would only have been a dream. Forty years later, Pixel Corps founder, Alex Lindsay, is using the Internet to create a global community of artists inspired by the craft guilds of the Middle Ages. Only instead of building cathedrals, Pixel Corps will be making movies. The common language isn't Esperanto, it's zeroes and ones....
By Ellen Wolff
Director Lasse Hallstrom isn't usually associated with visual effects filmmaking, but his Buena Vista release Casanova required some key scenes stitched...
By Michael Goldman
When veteran production designer Joseph Hodges recently started directing second unit for Fox's 24, he says he felt it represented a long overdue synergy...
By Michael Goldman
When iO Film, Hollywood, took the digital intermediate gig for the upcoming independent film Intellectual Property, the company saw an opportunity to...
By Dan Ochiva
With millions of digital camcorders and mega-size screens now being sold to consumers, lots of low-cost NLE software hitting the marketplace, and Google's...
By S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, and Dan Ochiva
What do you go to NAB for? Of course, the Las Vegas convention traditionally functions as the premiere product launch site for manufacturers large and...
By S. D. Katz
Matchmoving: The Invisible Art of Camera Tracking by Tim Dobbert Matchmoving is an essential part of visual effects production; whether you are work at...
By S. D. Katz
The list of software engineers on the Adobe Photoshop splash page seems as long as the VFX credits for King Kong, but only in the past few years did they...
By Joshua Kolden, Crack Creative
Crack Creative provides visualization and production services to the feature film, commercial, and architectural markets. ...
By Glenn Campbell, Area 51
Area 51 is an independent visual effects firm with seven to 10 employees who all wear multiple hats. ...
By John Stevens, Encore Hollywood
Encore Hollywood is busy. We work on feature films, episodic and long-form television, music videos, and commercials. ...
By Darroch Greer
The story has an epic, mythic, timeless, universal, classic quality, says writer/director Gavin Hood of his film Tsotsi, the South African winner of this...
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