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Game of Thrones Goes Tapeless for Season 2
Like the impending arrival of winter in the fictional land of Westeros, a new season of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones is on the horizon. The show’s first season recorded ARRI Alexa footage to tape, but HBO went completely …
Making Brake an Indie Success Story
Just like actors, cinematographers tend to be typecast. I think I’m good at coming up with creative solutions given limited resources, but I don’t know what makes producers think I can shoot a decent feature in only two weeks' time. …
VFX Supervisor Tim Burke on the Final Harry Potter
Tim Burke spent the last ten years immersed in the magical world of Harry Potter, a world that could not have been created without visual effects. He was visual effects supervisor at Mill Film for the second film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and has been the visual effects supervisor on each film since in the series of eight, receiving an Oscar nomination as co-visual effects supervisor for the third.
The Artist’s Cinematographer Speaks
On the surface The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, is an ode to a simpler time in movie-making history. Set in 1927 Hollywood at the dawn of the talkies, the black-and-white silent movie tells an old-fashioned love story with plenty of heart …
Editor Christopher Tellefsen on Moneyball
We spoke to Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E., about editing on the Avid, intercutting performances by actors and non-actors, and coal-mining in the cutting room.
VFX Supe Joe Letteri on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes stars a chimpanzee named Caesar, a CG character performed by Andy Serkis and created at Weta Digital, who acts alongside actor James Franco, a scientist who raises Caesar like a child.
Side By Side Documents the Digital Transition
Director Chris Kenneally and producer Keanu Reeves traveled the globe, interviewing cinematic luminaries - Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Christopher Nolan, for starters - about the ongoing digital revolution.
VFX Supervisor Erik Nash on Real Steel
Real Steel, set in a near future where high-tech robots have replaced boxers, tells the story of an errant father and clever son who team up to train a junkyard robot.
How They Did It: Bringing Creatures to Life in Discovery Networks' Online Promos
They're ferocious, vicious, dangerous and they're headed straight for you … online. Discovery Network's Web promos for hit shows River Monsters and Shark Week offer up a heart-pounding view of some frighteningly real underwater creatures brought to life with of Maxon's Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects.
VFX Supervisor Scott Farrar on Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Scott Farrar received his first Oscar nomination for best achievement in visual effects for Cocoon, and went on to win the Oscar in 1996 for his work on that film. At that time, he was a visual effects cameraman at Industrial Light & Magic. Since then, as a visual effects supervisor at ILM, he has stacked up five more Oscar nominations, the sixth for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, an award he shares with Scott Benza of ILM, Matthew E. Butler of Digital Domain, and special effects supervisor John Frazier.