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VFX Supe Cedric Nicolas-Troyan on Snow White and the Huntsman
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is a commercials and feature film director. He traveled back into supervising visual effects on Snow White and the Huntsman, and received an Oscar nomination for his effort. Nicolas-Troyan began his career as a visual effects artist in …
With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of 1000 to 1
Believe me, being a journeyman DP shooting indie pictures is a hard way to make a living, but it does have its rewards. It can be much more than a job for hire if you are able to enjoy the …
Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri on The Hobbit
Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri has won four visual effects Oscars (for the second and third Lord of the Rings films, King Kong, and Avatar), and has received seven Oscar nominations—including this year’s nomination for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected …
How Berkeley’s Colorflow Graded a Sundance Award-Winning Doc
The waterway referred to in the title of A River Changes Course is the Tonle Sap in Cambodia whose pattern of altering its course twice each year has shaped the lives of local people for centuries. In producer-director Kalyanee Mam’s …
Cinematographer Tristan Oliver on ParaNorman
Director of photography Tristan Oliver is one of a handful of cinematographers who have shot the tiny characters and small sets in stop-frame animated films. His recent work at Laika on ParaNorman contributed to that film’s Oscar nomination for Best …
Oscar-Nominated VFX Supe Richard Stammers Talks Prometheus
Richard Stammers, nominated for an Oscar for his VFX work on Prometheus, joined the Moving Picture Company (MPC) as a digital compositor for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone after working as a compositor and visual effects supervisor …
Roger Deakins Wins Top ASC Award for Skyfall
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, won the ASC award for best feature film cinematography for his work on Skyfall at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Hollywood last night. In the one-hour TV episodic category, ASC announced …
Q&A: Creative Director Federico Ponce on Making Movie Trailers
You could say creative director Federico Ponce has one of the most important jobs on Iron Man 3, even though he didn't work on the film. He helped design something else that's very important to the film's fortunes — its …
Editor Adam Pertofsky on Cutting First “Got Milk?” Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl ads may be best known for peddling chips, beer and body parts, but that didn't stop America's Milk Processors, purveyors of the long-running "Got Milk?" campaign from giving it their best shot. Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Battleship) …
Nice Shoes Colorist Chris Ryan on “Asad”
For writer/director Bryan Buckley, it was time to do something different. A commercial director and co-founder of the production company Hungry Man, Buckley has put Martin Scorsese and Suri together in the back of cab for Apple, Ellen DeGeneres together …