Millimeter October/November 2006
By Michael Goldman
Like many intense relationships, Martin Scorsese's love affair with what he fondly calls gangster pictures never quite ends. Occasionally, he moves into...
By Marsha Scarbrough
Most film production professionals have stories about working extreme hours. I personally tell tales of a rainy all-nighter in Texas where the crew went...
By Cynthia Wisehart
IBC had the usual pleasures the relaxed show floor with its hangover-friendly lighting, the river beach bar packed at noon, the good food everywhere,...
By Ellen Wolff
Usually you hear about efforts to make CG human characters look as photoreal as possible. But during production of cinematics for Electronic Arts' (EA)...
By Michael Goldman
Independent filmmaker Lance Weiler known as something of a self-styled technical iconoclast adopted a guerrilla approach to both making Head Trauma and...
By Michael Goldman
Chicken Little, Monster House, the upcoming re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Meet the Robinsons, and other 3D projects in various stages...
By Michael Goldman
As the broadcast industry's conversion to HD continues, the deployment of new, portable media storage solutions is also moving ahead specifically, the...
By Darroch Greer
There is not another film like it anywhere in creation, and if you missed the proto-punk days of the mid-'70s, when glam rock turned incendiary, you can...
By Dan Ochiva
Emotions carry via facial expressions, so full, detailed facial motion capture ranks as a top goal of mo-cap systems...
By Dan Ochiva
Autodesk's Media and Entertainment division just grows and grows...
By Dan Ochiva
If you've been involved in broadcasting graphics, you probably know Video Design Software...
By Dan Ochiva
While the results of ATI's buyout by AMD are still to come, it's easy to see Nvidia is taking no prisoners...
By Dan Ochiva
The American Society of Cinematographers' color decision list (CDL) format might help spark a new style of filmmaking, as it allows color decisions made onset to transfer more easily to post color correction...
By Dan Ochiva
To date, most matchmoving software has pretty much done just that alone...
By Dan Ochiva
A new generation of web-based services, now coming to market, look to deliver useful solutions for collaboration and review...
By Dan Ochiva
For a number of years now, ARTVPS has made a name for itself by turning out the only graphics processing chips dedicated to raytracing...
By Dan Ochiva
To create anything more than just some very basic animation takes time — and skill...
By Dan Ochiva
Companies differ in their implementations of the next-generation 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) technology slowly turning up in storage products designed for post...
By S. D. Katz
Tore's law states that the density of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles about every 12 months, a prediction that has held up remarkably well...
By D. W. Leitner
Sony invented 24p six years ago when it developed the HDW-F900 HDCAM camcorder at the behest of George Lucas, who wanted to shoot Star Wars: Episodes...
By Geoff Boyle, Cinematography Mailing List
When I began shooting commercials 20 years ago, as a DP I had considerable influence over the post process....
By Dan Gregoire, Halon Entertainment
Halon Entertainment specializes in digital content creation. The company includes former senior staff members of JAK Films, a production company founded...
By Michael Goldman
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, (pictured left) is living proof the new generation of cinematographers won't be abandoning film any time soon. Prieto's head...
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