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VFX Snapshot: Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake”
VFX studio Ingenuity Engine recently completed a wide range of shots in stereo 3D for Katy Perry’s new music video, “Wide Awake.” The video, directed by Tony T. Datis from production company DNA, follows Perry as she falls into a …
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 Snapshot: The Senate’s Spooky Dark Shadows Manor
London's The Senate VFX finished 186 shots for Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's highly art-directed revival of the 1960s TV series. The Senate's visual-effects supervisor, Anton Yri, was on set for first-unit production as well as model photography, as elements were …
How ILM Built a Blasted-Out NYC
All the heroes for The Avengers don’t appear onscreen. With a film this dependent on visual effects, you’d have to consider work by the crews at all the studios who completed the highly-praised shots on a tight schedule as heroic. …
How Weta Digital Made Gods Grapple in The Avengers
“It’s gods fighting each other,” says Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Guy Williams, describing a fight between Iron Man and Thor in The Avengers, one of many for which the studio supplied digital doubles and a CG Iron Man. For …
Getting the Right Color for Comedy in 21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street may be a comedy, but it doesn’t look like one. On the contrary, much of the film more closely resembles the gritty, streetwise cop dramas it pokes fun at. That was a deliberate choice by directors Phil …