Category Archives: Creativity

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Playing Puppeteer with the R-rated South Park Crew

"It's the first movie I've ever done where we're posting while we're still shooting," reports Tom Vogt, editor of Team America: World Police, the new movie from South Park creators Trey more »

Going Back in Time for an HD Image

Low-tech meets high-tech in "Youth Against MS," a new PSA combining pictures from a primitive pinhole camera with HD imagery. "HD can look a bit hard, and I needed a softer, more more »

Spongebob‘s Audio

Working out of Hacienda Post in Los Angeles, Jeff Hutchins created a constant bubbling soundscape for the Spongebob Squarepants TV series and has reimagined it for theaters- in surround. "We have to more »

The Polar Express Is a Mo-Cap Locomotive That’s Speeding Performance Animation Forward

Director Robert Zemeckis and actor Tom Hanks took this groundbreaking approach to Chris Van Allsburg's Caldecott Medal-winning storybook, with the crew at Sony Pictures Imageworks creating new processes for more »

Sound Design Reveals a Blind Man’s POV

"As Ray Charles went blind as a child, he transitioned to using his hearing to get him through life," explains sound supervisor Karen Baker Landers. "As he was going blind, his mother taught him more »

Q&A: Curtiss Clayton From Cutting to Shooting

"As an editor, I could make [directorial] decisions on the spot and have confidence. Otherwise I might have been totally unnerved." Curtiss Clayton, Director/Editor What inspired you to go into more »

Gear Eye for the Lighting Guy

Here Comes the Sun Adding lights to daylight shots can make all the difference in the constant fight against flat location lighting. Two recent product additions for the DP's daylight HMI arsenal come from more »

Editing Evolution

The majority of the 350 editors who responded have had a chance to see their profession change over many years. More than 28 percent of the respondents have been editing for 16 or more years, with an more »

Luxology’s Got Their Modo Working….

A neon cowboy in a storefront window pointed the way to a Siggraph highlight: the public unveiling of Luxology's long-anticipated Modo software at the Museum of Neon Art downtown. Three years in the making more »

Sony HDR-FX1 Handycam

Sony steps up to the HDV plate next month, when it's scheduled to ship the HDR-FX1 Handycam, a $3700 three-chip 1080i (1440x1080) camcorder - along with new HD DVC videotapes (63 minutes of recording time) more »