Millimeter January/February 2009
By Michael Goldman
Whenever embarking upon the creation of a spectacular smorgasbord of visual craziness in a major feature film as Director Zack Snyder describes the visual...
By Ellen Wolff
Stop-motion animation and stereoscopy aren't techniques that audiences have ever seen combined before that is, until Coraline, the latest feature from...
By Michael Goldman
Although Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, says he prefers to keep his films simple, the complexities, nuances, and great success of his work are routinely analyzed,...
Not quite two years ago, we started down a remarkable path that quietly transformed our work at millimeter and Digital Content Producer. The most high-profile...
By Ellen Wolff
MGM's Valkyrie is a World War II movie in which one of the most intricate visual-effects shots happens not in the heat of battle, but during an intimate moment on a dance floor. As we watch Colonel Von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) take his wife's hand to dance...
By Dave Ruddick
Greenland is not exactly the easiest place to shoot a documentary. With conditions such as subzero temperatures, melting icecaps, and dangerous terrains...
By Dan Ochiva
While Avid has faced fierce competition in desktop NLEs, the company seems to have few challengers for the high end of networked HD post, where its Avid...
By Dan Ochiva
If you're working with greenscreens, you might have favorites among the very good keyers available. For some, the point-and-click ease of Imagica's Primatte...
Pixellexis Goes for the Practical
Pixellexis Systems & Technologies aimed for the high end when it created its LexiGrid water-cooled parallel-processing solution for realtime rendering....
By Dan Ochiva
Whether or not you think workstation purchases should be predicated on benchmarks, at least consider that companies that spend their time ballyhooing...
By Dan Ochiva
When word went out late last year that Autodesk had refused to renew its development license after a 12-year relationship with visual-effects software...
By Dan Ochiva
From the OK, so we don't exactly agree here, department: JMR describes its BlueStor (sporting PeSAN technology) as the first direct-attached PCI storage...
By Dan Ochiva
Cambridge Animation Systems (CAS) made its presence known as the animator's choice in nearly 60 countries throughout Europe and Asia, but it wasn't enough...
By Dan Ochiva
More apps are finishing their move to full 64-bit operation. This offers access to much more memory, which is necessary with the shift to dual quad-core...
By Dan Ochiva
Setting up a reliable SAN involves not only solid hardware but capable software that isn't too complicated for most editors to handle. That's Enhance...
By Dan Ochiva
Blackmagic Design knows it has to keep upgrading its gear on a regular basis to stay in the sweet spot it has as a favorite low-cost supplier to the post...
By Dan Ochiva
Autodesk has dabbled a little distractedly in the lower end of the post market over the years. Product announcements at the recent Macworld Expo show...
By Dan Ochiva
Announced late last year, PNY now offers delivery on Nvidia's new top-of-the-line Quadro series. The cards use the latest GT200 GPU, which also turns...
By Michael Goldman
Just before heading off to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival with his newest film, The September Issue, documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler waxed philosophical...
By Craig Erpelding
Harold Moss is the founder and creative director at FlickerLab and Moss based in New York which worked on two movies that are grabbing headlines of late:...
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Dr. Manhattan Project
Digital Puppeteers
Man of Light
Step by Step: Valkyrie
Beta Sight: Sound Devices 788T and 302 
Products: Avid Unity Isis
Products: Quantel Primatte
Products: Boxx Technologies 3DBoxx 8440
Products: The Foundry Sparks
Products: JMR BlueStor
Products: Toon Boom Animation and Cambridge Animation Systems
Products: Andersson Technologies SynthEyes
Products: Enhance Technology UltraStor RS16 FS 
Products: Blackmagic Design DeckLink SDI 
Products: Autodesk Toxik, Mudbox, and ImageModeler
Products: Nvidia Quadro CX
Fade to Black: R.J. Cutler, Director/Producer 
Q&A with FlickerLab founder/creative director Harold Moss