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Apple yesterday introduced the iPad, essentially a new, larger form factor for an iPhone-like device that supports music, HD video (but not Flash video), books, and games. SHOULD YOU CARE? YES. Even many of the Apple faithful seemed a little underwhelmed by yesterday's announcement, which didn't seem to break much new ground in the gadget realm. However, the price (starting at $499) is right, and there's been a lot of chatter about Apple pitching this first-generation product as the foundation of a new, 21st-century model for the content-creation business previously known as "publishing." If the future of newspapers and magazines lies with a portable, rich-media style of presentation, the iPad is going to be one of the first places where publishers can really try their digital chops, writing in the new, video-friendly HTML5 standard and coding with Javascript to create true interactivity in a handheld device. And, crucially, e-commerce is built in. It's a shame Flash isn't supported — but if you want to flex new creative muscles, designing elegant apps for the iPad could be a rewarding challenge. Shorewood High School, "Shorewood Lip Dub"
Shorewood High School: “Shorewood Lip Dub”

A recent blog entry at ace film academic David Bordwell's Observations on film art scrutinized the phenomenon of "lipdubs," which are videos featuring exuberant single-take lip-sync performances of pop hits. Bordwell considers the lipdub rivalry between Shorecrest High School and Shorewood High School (both in Shoreline, Washington). Shorecrest made an awesome lipdub out of dozens of students performing “Hey Ya!" by Outkast. Shorewood responded by mounting an equally complicated production of "You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates — and shooting it entirely in reverse. Here is your evidence of how affordable, ubiquitous video technology is changing the very meaning of creativity for young people today.

 
 
How Weta Digital Handled Avatar

How Weta Digital Handled Avatar

The shots department packages data from animators, high-resolution character and environment geometry, and simulation data, then lights and renders the shots.
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Modern Videofilm Goes the Distance on Color-Grading for Avatar

When you're James Cameron, you need to be in several places at the same time. That's why Modern Videofilm let him color-correct Avatar from the Fox lot across town.
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How Renegade Expanded Its MPEG-2 Workflow

“We kick out QuickTime reference files to a watch folder on the [Digital Rapids] StreamZHD and it converts [the clips on our Unity] to MPEG-2.”
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Production Workflow for Investigation Discovery's The Shift

Footage is captured on location by a mere two shooters who double and triple as producers and directors, wielding Sony HVR-Z1U HDV cameras.
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What Makes Invictus a VFX Film?

The movie includes 600 visual-effects shots. If VFX supervisor Michael Owens has his way, audiences won’t notice a single one.
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How Shed Media and Catalyst Post Ramped Up for Reality TV

For new seasons of SupernannyReal Housewives of New York, and CMT's World's Strictest Parents, the facilities installed Avid DX and Unity systems.
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How RLTV Kicked the Videotape Habit

RLTV built a system that would keep up not just with technological change, but with the cultural change that comes with the arrival of totally tapeless workflows.

 
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“You can wait your whole life,” says animation director Ken Lidster, “to get a script that has the opening line: ‘Open on a stop-motion animated world in which Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Sasquatch, a leprechaun, an alien, and a Diet Dr. Pepper deliveryman discuss the public’s inability to believe in them’” ...


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