Author Archives: Bryant Frazer

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Full Moon Silhouettes

A Canon 1D Mark IV, a very long lens, and more than a mile of distance gave photographer Mark Gee this awe-inspiring look at New Zealanders watching the moon rise over Wellington. On Vimeo, Gee says he was shooting from … more »

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VFX Supervisor Bill Westenhofer on Life of Pi

Bill Westenhofer’s Oscar nomination for the visual effects in Life of Pi is his third Academy Award nomination and fourth BAFTA nomination. In 2008, he received a visual effects Oscar and a BAFTA award for his work on The Golden … more »

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What Cameras Did Sundance Filmmakers Use?

Indiewire posted an article this morning listing a bunch of films from Sundance 2013 sorted by the cameras they employed. It's definitely not a comprehensive list (it seems to be limited to the filmmakers that Indiewire got face time with … more »

Films Originating on Kodak Make Big Impact at Sundance

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival wrapped this last weekend, with director Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale winning the festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for a drama. The film, which was shot on Kodak Super 16mm by cinematographer Rachel Morrison, was … more »

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Paperman

Disney's Oscar-nominated animated short "Paperman" overlays 2D drawings on CG shapes, giving the computer-generated animation a distinctly (and unusually) old-fashioned feeling without making it feel cheap or low-tech. The artists used a proprietary Walt Disney Animation Studios program called Meander … more »

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Kia Sorento “Space Babies”

You may as well get a head start on your Super Bowl viewing by taking a trip to Babylandia with director Jake Scott and the visual-effects team at Method Studios. You might not even notice that "Space Babies" is trying … more »

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Grass Valley Updates Stratus Production System

Grass Valley announced a new release of its GV Stratus system, which it now describes as a "nonlinear production solution." It includes new automated rules-based file operations and Edius XS, a low-resolution proxy editor that shares most of the effects … more »

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Cyborg Foundation

Neil Harbisson was born completely unable to perceive color. Rather than accept this condition, he worked to develop the eyeborg, which translates colors in front of him into sounds — and, he says, makes him a cyborg. In this very … more »

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Courier Prime Is a Free, Easier-to-Read Script Font

Filmmakers live in a digital world. Figuring out how updated procedures can replace older technology is part of the game when it comes to quality and efficiency. That's how file-based workflows superseded tape, and how the on-set digital lab is … more »

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Samantha Crain: Never Going Back

You've seen those music videos animated, flip-book style, using print-outs on paper. But have you ever seen one shot in real time, in a large room full of printouts on card stock, using a moving camera to create the animation … more »

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