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Benita Raphan is a director and designer - and a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts - whose work has been featured on HBO, The Sundance Channel, PBS, and Channel Four Television, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She leveraged a background as an art director in the fashion industry to inform her career as a filmmaker.
Cinematographer Tim Orr on Shooting The Sitter
The early collaborations between cinematographer Tim Orr and director David Gordon Green were poetic, independent dramas with minimal budgets. More recently, they've made a successful string of studio comedies. "We try to have fun with it while breaking conventions," Orr says.
Psyop Enchants a Sustainable Message for FedEx
When a spot's been touched by the creative team at Psyop, that usually translates into nuanced animation with an element of surprise. In "Enchanted Forest," their latest collaboration with BBDO for FedEx, a fairy-tale conceit ends up delivering a sober message about sustainability.
P+S Technik Opens Tech Center in Hollywood
P+S Technik is setting up shop in Hollywood, with a new North American support center taking over sales and service of P+S products in North America.
Blackmagic Design Buys Teranex
Blackmagic Design said this morning that it has purchased Teranex, a provider of high-quality video-processing products for broadcast and post-production.
Kung Fu Panda 2 Leads Annie Award Nominations
Kung Fu Panda 2 apparently has all the right moves - the DreamWorks Animation release scored no fewer than 12 nominations in the 2011 Annie Awards, leading the list of plaudits announced this week by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood.
Building Massive Environments for Immortals
The virtual environment had to be detailed in all the right places, so that it would stand up to camera scrutiny in shots where it took up the majority of the frame, simple enough on the whole to allow quick fixes during production, and massive enough to make sense as the camera pulls back to a literal god's-eye view of earthly affairs.
Stereo-3D Smartphone Market Poised to Explode
Odds are good that you'll be carrying a stereo-3D camera in your pocket within the next four years, according to a just-released study from graphics and multimedia consultancy Jon Peddie Research (JPR). The firm says 80 percent of smartphones will boast not just 3D screens, but 3D cameras.
Review: Panasonic HDC-Z10000 3D Camera
The HDC-Z10000 is a compact, feature-laden 3D camera at an economical price that gives shooters optimal capability in a “normal” working range of six-to-eight feet. It should find ready acceptance among those working mostly interior scenes and interviews from 17 inches (.45m) out to 15 feet (3.5m).
Singular Software Unveils Presto v2
Singular Software, a developer of workflow automation applications for digital media, is pleased to announce the availability of Singular Software Presto for OS X (v2.0) with support for Adobe Premiere Pro.