Author Archives: Bryant Frazer

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3net Cuts Content Deal with Comcast Xfinity TV

Stereo-3D cable channel 3net expanded its reach today, signing a deal to provide three hours of programming each week to Comcast's Xfinity 3D TV channel. Some 3net programming will be carried on Xfinitiy On Demand "in the near future," 3net … more »

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Noise Industries Releases Ripple Tools for FCP X

Noise Industries released the Ripple Tools package, a collection of 12 title-effect plug-ins including a 3D text generator, adjustment layers, guides and rulers, color wheels and effects filters, for Final Cut Pro X.  FCP X users with FxFactory installed can … more »

Shugo Tokumaru: Katachi

Enjoy this stop-motion animated video for Japanese pop musician Shugo Tokumaru's song "Katachi," created using papercraft figures and shapes by directors Kararzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski, aka Kijek / Adamski.

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Movie Clip: Escape from Tomorrow

Here's a clip from Escape from Tomorrow, a narrative feature film shot with DSLRs, guerilla style, on location and without permission in the Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme parks. Director/screenwriter Randy Moore took post-production to South Korea to help … more »

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Microscopic Time-Lapse: Sensing Danger

Ready to see a completely different part of the world? This clip, depicting an immune reaction in the lymph node of a mouse, is the winner in Nikon's second-annual Small World in Motion Photomicography Competition. It was made using a … more »

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Kenny Stoff on Shooting Dave Grohl’s Sundance Doc Sound City

Housed in a pair of nondescript warehouse structures in Van Nuys, California, Sound City Studios hardly had the outward appearance of a rock and roll Mecca. Yet for 40 years, it served as the launching pad for some of the … more »

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Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts

Hark back to an era before CGI with this compilation of amazing stunt work featuring martial-arts superstar Jackie Chan, taken from Hong Kong films made during his 1980s and 1990s heyday.

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Guillermo Del Toro on Alfred Hitchcock

To coincide with the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), the Criterion Collection released this video excerpt in which director Guillermo Del Toro explains why he thinks the film represents a transition to Hitchcock's … more »

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MPSE Career Achievement Honoree John Roesch on a Life in Sound

Next month, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will present John Roesch with its 2013 Career Achievement Award. It’s a crowning achievement for the veteran Foley artist, whose career spans more than three decades and over 400 films, including such … more »

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Q&A: Light Iron CEO Michael Cioni on His Move to Manhattan

Light Iron CEO Michael Cioni won't be at Sundance this year. He's gearing up for a move to the Big Apple, where he'll be overseeing business at the Hollywood-based company's New York City expansion, in the 580 Broadway Soho offices … more »