Millimeter January/February 2007
By Michael Goldman
The digital post workflow philosophy behind Craig Brewer's new psycho-sexual drama, Black Snake Moan, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival,...
By Jon Silberg
From the grim realities of war to an escape to distant fairylands, no world was too difficult to realize in the five films nominated for the Achievement...
By Blair Jackson
Between the Achievement in Sound Editing and Achievement in Sound Mixing categories, nearly all of those earning Oscar nods this year have either been...
By Ellen Wolff
It is arguable that with a computer-animated movie, the entire project is a visual effect. After all, such films depict digitally invented worlds. But...
By Cynthia Wisehart
If you know Joe Beirne, you've heard him worry out loud. Not in a panicky way he just waits to be sure everything has worked before he starts taking compliments....
By Ellen Wolff
In Twentieth Century Fox's Night At The Museum, a menagerie of display animals comes alive and heads outdoors from New York's American Museum of Natural...
By Michael Goldman
On his ultra low-budget Sundance feature, Year of the Fish, David Kaplan used rotoscoping techniques over live-action imagery shot with a Sony DSR-PD170...
By Craig Erpelding
Mike Belmont (pseudonym M dot Strange) used his self-invented process to create the fully animated Sundance feature, We Are the Strange. Belmont wrote,...
By Dan Ochiva
Better images for smaller camcorders As a new generation of 1/3in.- and 1/2in.-CCD HDV camcorders come to market, manufacturers are fitting them with...
By Dan Ochiva
While Sony prides itself on its engineering prowess, the company's high-end F900 CineAlta series HD camera hadn't been replaced for six years....
By Dan Ochiva
Specialty optics are new to smaller-format HDV camcorders. One of the first companies to address the market, Innovision Optics, recently introduced the HD Mini Probe,...
By Dan Ochiva
DVS Digital Video, the U.S. subsidiary of Hanover, Germany-based DVS, now offers do-it-yourself system builders the Centaurus II, an upgrade for its workhorse Centaurus board....
By Dan Ochiva
Storage technology improvements deliver welcome features to Take2, the second generation of S.two's digital film recorder (DFR) for in-the-field capture....
By Jan Ozer
There are (at least) two reasons to buy a really powerful multi-core computer: to accelerate the performance of one application, and to allow you to work...
By Phil Brennan Asylum Visual Effects
I've been involved with film and commercial visual effects now for 17 years, and I have been at Asylum Visual Effects since 1999 working on films such...
By Ellen Wolff
When Stefen Fangmeier prepared to make Eragon, a fantasy featuring a 3,000lb. flying blue dragon, he wasn't concerned about creating a CG star. The dragon...
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Chasing the Perfect Pipeline 
Aesthetic Power
Sound Standouts
Personal Effects
Step by Step: Night at the Museum 
Painterly Rotoscope
Strange Workflow
Products: Canon
Products: Sony
Products: Innovision Optics
Products: DVS Digital Video
Products: S.two
Test Drive: HP xw8400
Beta Sight: Autodesk Toxik 2007
Fade to Black: Stefen Fangmeier, Director