If you watched coverage of the Final Four basketball tournament on CBS this year, you’ve seen V3 footage in action. Now, with systems available for rental at Clairmont Camera, the company is gearing up a full-court press to try and get V3-capable lenses into broadcast trucks from coast to coast.... »
It’s one thing to do groundbreaking VFX work on a show like Battlestar Galactica, which dramatically reinvented the look of the original 1970s TV series for a contemporary audience. But it’s quite another to start working on an upgrade of a not-so-long-in-the-tooth program like Babylon 5.... »
On July 19, Hollywood post production facility Post Logic Studios announced the launch of its Image Science Division. Headed up by Dr. Mitch J. Bogdanowicz and Denis Leconte, the new division will offer Post Logic clients “the assurance of consistent color management across every stage of a production, regardless of acquisition format or output medium.” ... »
A strange thing happened on the way to SIGGRAPH 2007. Its prestigious Computer Animation Festival, which, since 1999, has been an official qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Best Animated Short Film award, announced their 2007 awards, and two of the top three films come from students—and all of them from Europe. ... »
When Creative Director Greg Hahn of New York’s Gretel started thinking about opening titles and category opens for Spike’s Guys Choice awards show, he gravitated toward ultra-high-speed imagery. ... »
If you’ve seen Live Free or Die Hard — or even if you’ve just seen the trailers, which emphasize the film’s trademark outlandish action sequences — you may think of the various stunts, including the “money shot” involving a car tumbling through the air and smashing into the hoods of two more cars traveling on the ground, as a veritable CG-fest. But you’d be wrong.... »
Mid-way through the animated mockumentary Surf’s Up, one of the penguins faces the camera and asks an invisible camera crew if they’re hungry. We hear a voice answer, “Uh, yeah.” ... »
