Millimeter September/October 2007
By Michael Goldman
When Sean Penn's long-held desire to make a movie of Jon Krakauer's novel about iconoclastic adventurer Chris McCandless finally came true, the question...
By Trevor Boyer
Despite all the statistics floating around about the number of episodic network television shows porting over to HD acquisition, many TV cinematographers...
By Michael Goldman
Because 83-year-old Sidney Lumet is among cinema's most veteran high-definition players, having first jumped into the fray in 2001 for several episodes...
By Michael Goldman
One the first Arriflex D-20 projects expected to hit the big screen is also the first movie ever produced, financed, and made in the nation of Jordan. GigaPix Studios (Chatsworth, Calif.) co-produced the Sundance-bound Captain Abu Raed, directed by Jordanian writer-director Amin Matalqa...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Tad Fettig met Karena Albers on a deodorant shoot in Hawaii. Both were veterans of the advertising world Fettig as a commercial cinematographer specializing...
By Cynthia Wisehart
You're hearing a lot about green; we are too. As we went to press with our story about kontentreal's Autodesk-sponsored series of PBS programs on the...
By Ellen Wolff
When audiences see Into the Wild, they probably won't notice the visual effects that were necessary to capture this wilderness tale. Sean Penn's film,...
By D. W. Leitner
Let's Hope Apple Never Becomes an Ordinary company. Few companies set out, after all, to smash the dystopian future as famously depicted in Apple's defiant...
By Chip Potter, Executive Producer, Mechnology
Mechnology, Based in Burbank, Calif., is a Boutique facility focused on two primary service areas: visual effects and DI/film finishing. One of our first...
By Dan Ochiva
Anyone spending time editing knows that keeping clutter from overwhelming your workspace can help with both organization and sanity....
By Dan Ochiva
With the debut of LightWave version 9.3, NewTek puts the emphasis on improving the 3D app's rendering capabilities. ...
By Dan Ochiva
At Siggraph, San Jose, Calif.-based Reallusion announced plans to move iClone Studio, its template-based Machinima software, to a higher level....
By Dan Ochiva
Over the past few years, Siggraph has turned into the place to be if you want to catch up with the latest upgrades from Autodesk....
By Dan Ochiva
Until recently, hacking motion-capture software was best the left to the large studios and other users who could devote the necessary coders to the job. ...
By Dan Ochiva
AMD has struggled over the past year with production and marketing snafus, and some worried that the well-regarded ATI FireGL series cards (AMD bought the Canadian company last year) would be in trouble. ...
By Dan Ochiva
At Siggraph, Nvidia previewed a combination of hardware and software technology that promises to drastically reduce the time necessary for tedious rerendering operations—boosting interactivity....
By Dan Ochiva
While it never had the extensive capabilities of professional animation packages, Poser has been a longtime favorite for anyone desiring a quick, intuitive interface for character design....
By Dan Ochiva
"Do away with ping-pong balls," seemed to be the rallying cry at the Realviz Siggraph booth....
By Dan Ochiva
Sophisticated color look-up tables from such companies as Kodak and Arri are taking the guesswork out of keeping true-color values when moving RGB images from the realm of computer post through digital output to film....
By Dan Ochiva
While Vicon now sells an eight-camera system with software for $50,000, Corvallis, Ore.-based NaturalPoint knocks a decimal point off that price with its $5,000 Arena full-body motion-capture software....
By Dan Ochiva
At Siggraph, Softimage delivered a number of enhancements to its product lineup, but the company also engaged in some strategic repositioning....
By Darroch Greer
That Chance to Unsettle that was the Really Great Visual Invitation and Treat here, Kenneth Branagh says of his latest directorial effort, Sleuth. As...
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Wild Ride
Fall Footage 
Lumet Goes Genesis
Early Adopter 
Keeping it Green
Step by Step: Into the Wild
Review: Apple Final Cut Studio 2 
Beta Sight: Rising Sun Research CineSpace 
Products: Cardo Systems
Products: NewTek
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Fade to Black: Kenneth Branagh, Director