Author Archives: Beth Marchant

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Guardians

Rise of the Guardians: North Featurette

If it's no longer October, it must be time to unleash the twisted pair promotional juggernaut of Oscar contenders/holiday movies. Here come the Guardians, DreamWorks' entry that sprang from the mind of Academy Award-winning William Joyce (The Fantastic Flying Books … more »

Lux+Foundry

Five (or So) Questions for The Foundry and Luxology

The Foundry and Luxology surprised many in September when the two companies announced they would join forces to co-develop future products. During the excitement we got The Foundry's CEO Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, a Foundry co-founder and its chief scientist, … more »

Jackson

An Unexpected Briefing

This safety PSA for Air New Zealand got a little extra help from Peter Jackson and Weta Workshop, Weta's physical effects and props design-build team. The airline is also running a promo for a chance to win a trip to … more »

Fallon

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Hurricane Sandy Cold Open

It's always hard playing to an empty room but the Late Night production team decided it had to try (Letterman tried too, with mixed results). After sending the audience home Monday, Fallon started outside the show's Rockefeller Center studios as … more »

SonyPrimes

New Primes for Sony’s Newly Unveiled CineAlta 4K Cameras

Another reason to welcome the feature-gap-filling "future ahead of schedule" F55 and F5 CineAlta cameras announced today that Sony is aiming at music video, commercial and reality TV production: The company is also set to release the second-generation of its … more »

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Blackmagic Design Updates DaVinci Resolve to 9.0.3

Blackmagic announced today that any camera without timecode can now be brought in and synched during editing and conform inside DaVinci Resolve 9.0.3, an update to its signature color-grading tool. Opening up theatrical and broadcast productions to an even broader … more »

StormstockBayside

Stormstock Catpures Hurricane Sandy’s Fury as It Crashes into U.S. Coast

News camera crew and talent stuck on storm duty today may have no other choice than to be chasing this category 1 hurricane heading up the East Coast. Here's hoping all the rest of you, your cameras and your glass … more »

Whedon

Whedon on Romney

Are we on the right path to the zombie apocalypse? No, our video of the day isn't another weather report, just a video of a director in his kitchen thinking about the big questions as he washes the dishes. NOTE: … more »

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Kodak Releases More Film Stock for Archiving and Preservation

Don't count Kodak out just yet. The beleaguered film manufacturing company, which filed for Chapter 11 last January, realigned its top management team this summer and continues to roll out 35mm, 16mm and Super 8 color negative, print and digital … more »

Ruby

The Green Ruby Pumpkin

Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma, two senior visual effects artists formerly with Digital Domain, created this passion project about a curiously colored and bedazzled pumpkin in their living room. It blends CGI and stylized 2D effects to populate a magical … more »