Category Archives: VFX/Animation

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What’s Around the Photoreal Corner

Director Joseph Kosinski came out of engineering and architecture, where he learned and used CAD programs to design. "While learning those, I realized how powerful they are and how I could use them to more »

Develop Animated Characters in Autodesk 3ds Max

Step 1 Record your voiceovers first Record voiceovers as early as possible in the production schedule, ideally with the animation director at the recording session. Often ideas will present themselves during more »

Variable Transparency Matte Keys in Avid with Digital Juice

Many advanced compositing techniques are based on variable transparency matte keys. more »

HOT HOUSE: AlphaDogs Brings Post Power to the People

WHAT'S THEIR GIG? A Kinko's for the post world? That's the idea behind the new Digital Service Station media transfer division of AlphaDogs, a post-production facility in Burbank, CA. "It saves time more »

Digital Juice’s Editor’s Toolkit

Digital Juice's Editor's Toolkit suites of animated graphic elements for television and video projects are now available in three new packages more »

Create edgy looping backgrounds fast in Adobe After Effects

More and more people are using looping backgrounds in projects. The great thing about this is that when a client changes his or her mind and decides the intro needs to be 12 seconds longer, you don't need to do anything except repeat your looping background a few more times. more »

Hyphenating, and Why You Just Might Do it Soon

My local movie theater is the best location for reading. Credits, that is. Other dedicated credit-readers know the mysteries that can be unearthed simply by reading between the lines as they roll up the more »

Coldplay Sees the Light

An inventive stylist who rarely repeats himself, Mark Romanek has found ways to amplify pop music on film in quirky, personal ways. He's done it for Beck, David Bowie, Jay-Z and Johnny Cash. Recently the more »

Family Guy Makes a Comeback With a New Pipeline

Thanks to the momentum generated by sales of nearly 3 million DVD box sets and repeated cable airings, Fox's Family Guy is back by popular demand after its 2002 cancellation in season three. more »

Making Science Easier in CG

Cutting-edge automobile technology demands a sportily engineered campaign, so when Japanese agency Hakuhoodo Photo Creative set out to create a 60-second spot for the new Toyota Prius, they went to Anonymous more »