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Hive-FX’s Jim Clark and Guy Cappiccie on Seamless Morphs for Grimm
NBC's Grimm, which resumes its second season on March 8, revolves around a Portland homicide detective descended from an elite line of criminal profilers dating back to the time of the Brothers Grimm. The detective must tread carefully between his real beat …
Director Ang Lee and Editor Tim Squyres on Life of Pi
After finishing Life of Pi, his eleventh film made in collaboration with editor Tim Squyres, ACE, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's ideas about the role of the film editor are changing. "The editor for a movie like this is not just [doing] …
At Sea with the Intense, Immersive Doc Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan raises the bar for documentary filmmaking: it’s closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey than the typical non-fiction film. Shot with a variety of video cameras, including the extremely small GoPro, it depicts life onboard …
Expanding the Handheld Screen for Mobile Roadie
The world may be vast, but it’s also highly mobile. If you have the right tools, the possibilities are endless. That’s the message of the 60-second spot LA-based mixed-media production studio Roger created for Mobile Roadie. Part of the app …
Technicolor’s Tony Dustin on Grading Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell, stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver. All of them are up for an Oscar this year, including the film for Best Picture. The acclaimed ensemble film was …
Weta Digital’s Guy Williams on The Avengers
Guy Williams was the visual effects supervisor at Weta Digital for The Avengers. We spoke to him last May upon the release of the film, and caught up with him again to talk about his Oscar and BAFTA nominations for …
ILM’s Jeff White on The Avengers
Jeff White’s nominations for a visual effects Oscar and BAFTA award for his work at Industrial Light & Magic on The Avengers are his first, but they follow five VES nominations and a VES award for Outstanding Visual Effects in …
VFX Supe Cedric Nicolas-Troyan on Snow White and the Huntsman
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is a commercials and feature film director. He traveled back into supervising visual effects on Snow White and the Huntsman, and received an Oscar nomination for his effort. Nicolas-Troyan began his career as a visual effects artist in …
With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of 1000 to 1
Believe me, being a journeyman DP shooting indie pictures is a hard way to make a living, but it does have its rewards. It can be much more than a job for hire if you are able to enjoy the …
Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri on The Hobbit
Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri has won four visual effects Oscars (for the second and third Lord of the Rings films, King Kong, and Avatar), and has received seven Oscar nominations—including this year’s nomination for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected …