Category Archives: Category

7367 articles found

The Killers’ "Mr. Brightside"

Ornate art direction and glamour lighting could only mean...Super 16? "I firmly believe more »

Star Wars Technology Breakthroughs

"On a show for George there are always a ton of things to do for the first time," says John Knoll. "He writes whatever he wants and assumes that we'll figure it out. He never limits his more »

John Knoll, Professional Hobbyist

When John Knoll swings around from his desk, he comes face to face with a wall-sized line chart that shows the progression of the 1,700 visual effects shots he supervised for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of more »

High-End HD Tips

Talk about distance learning - from a galaxy far, far away come nine pieces of advice on shooting HD and HDCAM SR from VFX supervisor John Knoll and HD Supervisor Fred Meyers. Don't Waste Bandwidth If you more »

Jedi HD Tricks

It's no secret that director George Lucas is the most vocal - and most successful - advocate of fully digital feature production. Working for him is more »

Q&A: Doug Nichol on "Flight" and "Dreams"

New York's Ziegfeld Theater last month screened 10 shorts created for Sony and Young & Rubicam's "Dreams" project more »

Fast and Furious at 1000 FPS

When top car commercial director Lance Kelleher was hired to showcase Hyundai's all-new, redesigned 2006 Sonata, he came up with "two firsts" for the series of sophisticated spots created by The more »

Q&A: Camera op Jody Eldred on HDV vs. F900

Jody Eldred is one of those camera guys who likes to try everything - he's gone scuba diving with the PD-100, he covered the war in the Persian Gulf in 2003 with a PD-150 for ABC News, and he recently went airborne with the Sony Z1U more »

Promo House Airs ABC’s Dirty Laundry

Why did ABC tap a Hollywood promo house to create its hour-long special, Desperate Housewives: Sorting Out the Dirty Laundry? Because the show needed short-form storytelling experts who could boil complicated more »

Sin City‘s 4:4:4 Pipeline

Just like Dwight needed a hardtop with a decent engine and a big trunk in director Robert Rodriguez's visual comic book extravaganza Sin City, The Orphanage had some specific needs of its own to fit into the more »