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MillimeterEdit Review — Autodesk 3ds Max 8
By Frank McMahon
Autodesk (formerly Discreet) brings out a much-welcomed new version of its flagship animation system for desktops, 3ds Max 8. While the news of Autodesk...
DI for a Geisha
By Michael Goldman
Dion Beebe, ASC, recently emerged from the jungles of Uruguay, where he had been shooting Miami Vice for director Michael Mann, just in time to fly to Los Angeles from Miami for a one-day visit...
Indie Animation
By Michael Goldman
The independently produced CG film movement takes another step forward with this month's release from the Weinstein Company, Hoodwinked. Producers insist...
Celco Fury
By Ken Hayward
Rainmaker
Vancouver-based Rainmaker began modestly in 1979, offering Rank-Cintel film scanning, then state-of-the-art 1in. video editing, and service in all aspects...
NaturalMotion Endorphin 2.0
By Jordi Bares
The Mill
While computer graphics is still a very young field, it has moved rapidly into successful arenas in both film and commercials. Our job has sometimes expanded...
Paradise Animated
By S. D. Katz
Way back in 1991, Francis Ford Coppola famously predicted that video would democratize filmmaking. In the future, he claimed, a masterpiece was as likely to come from, “some little fat girl in Ohio” as it was from a Hollywood studio...
RenderMan for Maya
By John Monos
In the late 80s, the RenderMan standard was born, describing a series of rules and specifications for creating a 3D scene. Through the RenderMan Interface...
Apartment + Musician + Laptop + HD Camera = Music Video 
By Lee Rickwood
In the video production world, tales of music videos and other projects shot with ultra-low-budgets in some guy's apartment, using borrowed equipment, and edited using off-the-shelf software — aren't exactly new. Such stories might even make you might shrug your shoulders and politely stifle a yawn....
Step by Step: Jarhead
By Ellen Wolff
Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, is hardly associated with visual effects, but he needed them to create Jarhead for...
Broadcast Science
By Michael Goldman
As its name implies, Fight Science, an upcoming National Geographic documentary special slated for national broadcast in the spring of 2006, will showcase the science of martial arts. The “science” aspect involves documenting a complicated analytical process that scientists formulate as they examine the force, accuracy, speed, and range of movement produced by many of the world's leading martial artists...