Category Archives: Creativity

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Gray Marshall & Margaux Mackay Find VFX and Marriage Go Hand-in-Hand

How does being a couple affect your working relationship? MM: I feel our success is that we have a great deal of respect for each other, since we met at Digital Domain and worked together on a purely more »

Pre-vis Even a Gaffer Could Love

Until now, anyone who wanted to previsualize the practical aspects of a production had the choice of: A) Hiring a company that does pre-vis consulting, B) Mastering serious 3D tools, or C) Writing a clever app more »

Da Vinci Takes Color-Correction On-Set

DPs who use digital cinematography cameras are about to get a whole lot more control over the look of their footage from dailies through selects. In fact they will be able to do color previsualization during more »

Competition Heats Up Creativity

Brian Close, Jason Jones, Kaori Sohma and Travis Spangler walked away from VH-1's on-air graphics department and, in January 2004, formed the Lifelong Friendship Society, an off-shoot of Hornet. "We more »

Harry Gregson-Williams Sounds Off

Harry Gregson-Williams is Hollywood's go-to composer for animated features, with Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek, Sinbad, Shrek 2 and Universal theme-park ride Shrek 4D under his belt more »

Cinematography: The First Step in DI

Kodak is taking a first step toward standardizing the communications between a DP and his dailies supervisor with its planned commercial introduction of a look-management system at IBC this month. With the more »

Field Test: Shooting With the JY-HD10U

The JY-HD10U reminds me of my Volkswagen Beetle - small, agile, great mileage, everyone comments on how adorable it is, and I feel happy when I'm behind the wheel. I might not more »

New Season 2004: The 4400

Some things are just easier at night, like getting HD to look more like film. In the light of day, things get a whole lot trickier. If you really want to push an electronic camera to the limit, try shooting more »

Go to the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking Bryan Singer Shoots Practical, In-Camera Effects on Fox’s House

Shooting The Usual Suspects in 35 days helped feature film director Bryan Singer ( X-Men, X2) understand and appreciate the time crunch and budget constraints of TV production. "I employed the old Roger more »

Pretend You’re Working On a Feature Film

How do you handle the workload for a TV pilot whose outsized VFX demands feel more like a feature film? If you're the VFX supervisor for Alias creator J.J. Abrams, you pretend you're working on a feature more »