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Giving Digital People That Human Spark

Fox's newest blockbuster franchise, Fantastic Four , is a superhero saga that's all about characters- that's why it was critical that the film's lead VFX house, Giant Killer Robots (GKR), figure out more »

Flash Equals Financial Freedom

Cartoon Network's Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi may just reinvent the way animators think about 2D. Many animated TV shows are still based on pencil-and-paper drawings, which are scanned into conventional animation more »

It’s "Only" CGI

Director David Fincher returns to music videos with a CGI promo for "Only" by Nine Inch Nails. Flexing his photoreal muscles, Digital Domain VFX supervisor Eric Barba turned an everyday workspace more »

How to Conform a U2 Video

Final post work for U2's "City of Blinding Lights" (directed by Partizan's Alex & Martin) was completed at Los Angeles -based KromA, whose main task was conforming a DigiBeta master using more »

Paper Doll Collage

Fashion illustrator/artist Robert Wagt doesn't do animation but when his work for Alize's print campaign was sent to Thought Agency and PURE ( New York) as reference, PURE's creative director Aaron King more »

Q&A: Jerry Dugan on Extreme Shooting

Recently signed to Right Brain Media for exclusive spot representation, Jerry Dugan, a self-proclaimed extreme sports enthusiast, just completed an ATV spot for Bombardier ("Thumbs") more »

Janusz Kaminski Goes to War

As War of the Worlds opened this summer, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was already in Malta shooting his next picture for Steven Spielberg, a still-untitled film focusing on the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the Israeli team during the 1972 Olympic games. more »

Chasing Down the Price of a 2K DI

"We pulled off a full 2K DI for $110K, about $50K less than the lowest bid that we received." - Kyle Jackson The first film Jackson edited, Cats and Mice , was shot on Panasonic's VariCam. The more »

The Producers Pushes Location Audio Envelope

Maitland is doing more than recording the film's sound- he's making history: this is the first major Hollywood production to rely on software to capture its location audio. The fact that it's a musical more »

Is 4:4:4 Too Rich For Indies?

"There are a lot of firsts on this film," says producer Karl Richards of the suspenseful and unconventional love story set in contemporary New England and starring Alicia Silverstone, Sienna Guillory more »