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First Sessions Announced for SIGGRAPH 2012
SIGGRAPH 2012 organizers today announced a full slate of panels helmed by visual effects and character animation supervisors heading to this year's exhibition and conference in Los Angeles on August 5 – 9. The production sessions on tap this year …
Cinematographer Darius Khondji on Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love
Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC, the cinematographer behind the images of Seven, The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, The Interpreter, Panic Room, and Alien: Resurrection, first collaborated with director Woody Allen for the Oscar-winning Midnight in Paris. The film offered a …
What’s Cooking at Thornberg & Forester? Produce!
FIve-year-old Manhattan creative studio Thornberg & Forester is best known for its design and graphics work, but later this year the company plans to launch a full-on entertainment division. T&F's ambitions in live-action production became apparent with the appearance of …
Yellow Submarine Gets a Film Restoration and 4K Remaster
In The Beatles' 1968 animated classic Yellow Submarine, George Harrison declares, "It's all in the mind." But dirt, tears and scratches on the iconic film's original camera negative were all too real. So discovered restoration supervisor Paul Rutan, Jr. and his …
Slick and Sexy is the Right Look for True Blood
Vampire tales trace their roots to Central European legends, and many Gothic novelists punched up their stories with bloodthirsty baddies before Bram Stoker published Dracula in England in 1897. In 1921, F.W. Murnau directed Nosferatu, a brilliant landmark of the …
Editor Andrew Weisblum, ACE, on Moonrise Kingdom
Moonrise Kingdom, the story of Sam, a young Khaki Scout who flees summer camp for a seaside rendezvous with Suzy, the girl of his dreams, stirring up all kinds of trouble on the fictional island of New Penzance, is the …
VFX Supervisor Richard Stammers on Prometheus
There are no outright spoilers in this story about the visual effects work in director Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, although there are hints — even one about the scene that Glenn Kenny, chief film critic for MSN Movies, describes this way: …
Five Questions: Peter Bittenbender, Co-Founder and CEO, Decon
Peter Bittenbender founded production company Decon with Jason Goldwatch in 2002. A record-label division came into being a year later. Today, Decon bills itself as an "idea shop," with a portfolio that features a "Green Week" campaign for NBC Universal …
Growing a Tree in After Effects with Advanced Lightning and Particular
Graphic designer Simon Stutts breaks down his process for animating the roots and branches of a growing tree. Read the tutorial here.
Cinematographer Robert Yeoman Talks Super 16 Style on Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s latest movie, Moonrise Kingdom, takes audiences on an adventure with pre-teen lovers — newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward star alongside an adult cast that includes Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, and Bill Murray. Over the course …