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A New Season for the SNL Film Unit with Adobe CS6
Ask Adam Epstein to name the toughest part of his editorial and motion graphics workflow for Saturday Night Live's Film Unit and he will tell you, unequivocally, that the intense 24-hour edit sessions preceding the live show are actually a …
Imaginary Forces’ “Hand-Drawn” Style Keeps Pace with Nike
Imaginary Forces has worked on many Nike projects over the years. But the CG animation they created for the company’s new running shoe, the Nike LunarEclipse+ 2, stands out as something different. While Nike’s creative brief outlined a spot that …
Color-Grading Without the Color for Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie, which opens tomorrow in U.S. theaters, is in some ways old-fashioned. Shot in color but released in black and white, and animated using stop-motion figures, the film about a boy, Victor Frankenstein, and his (undead) dog actually has its …
Five Questions: DUCK Studios Animator Ned Wenlock
Wellington, New Zealand-based animator Ned Wenlock is on the roster of Duck Studios for commercial work in the U.S. His work has appeared in campaigns for brands including Honda and McDonald's as well as in music videos for bands such …
Full-CG Shots Help Tell the Story in Last Resort
As TV shows go, it's pretty high concept. The crew of the U.S.S. Colorado, a U.S. Navy submarine loaded with missiles, questions an order to fire nukes at Pakistan and is suddenly treated as an enemy combatant, taking potentially deadly fire …
Five Questions: Peter Vazquez, VFX Supervisor, Keep Me Posted
A lot of bandwidth—and breath—has been spent in the past several weeks debating the health of the visual effects industry. And while there is plenty of gloom and doom to go around, there are also a few bright spots, lens …
Under Pressure: Avid Editor John Gilroy on Cutting The Bourne Legacy
Everyone working on The Bourne Legacy had a tough job. Director Tony Gilroy—a writer or co-writer on all four films—had to reinvent a world he helped create. Star Jeremy Renner, playing Aaron Cross, had to measure up to the super-soldier …
Roger Deakins’ Digital Odyssey Not in 4K
Saturday afternoon in IBC's Big Screen Theater, celebrated cinematographer Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, took to the stage and spoke about his experience shooting the soon-to-be released James Bond film Skyfall on the ARRI Alexa digital camera. While Alexa is being used …
Tracking in Blood, Gore, and Smoke for the “Pig Lady”
Filmmaker Steve Makowski was in high school when he first heard the story of the axe-wielding creature known as “Pig Lady” who lived in the woods not far from his family’s New Jersey home. According to legend, anyone wishing to …
Brent Carpenter, Videographer to the (Ringo) Starr
All photos by Rob Shanahan It’s July 7, and Ringo Starr is outside Nashville’s Hard Rock Café greeting fans who want to wish him a happy 72nd birthday. On stage with him are his wife, Barbara Bach, his brother-in-law Joe Walsh, …