03|08|2010

Moving More VFX to the DI Suite

By Bryant Frazer

Teaser...  »
02|11|2010

Director Joachim Back on "The New Tenants"

By Bryant Frazer

Oscar-nominated short film "The New Tenants" is a wry, sideways look at love and death in New York City....  »
02|11|2010

Film Editor Alex Rodríguez Gets Animated

By Bryant Frazer

And now for something completely different: the co-editor of Children of Men heads to Madrid to tackle an animated feature....  »
01|14|2010

Modern Videofilm Goes the Distance on Color-Grading for Avatar

By Bryant Frazer

Modern Videofilm installed a Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve system at the Fox lot in Century City, then networked it via optical fiber to the Modern offices in Glendale, 56 miles away....  »
12|17|2009

What Makes Invictus a VFX Film?

By Debra Kaufman

Invictus is rife with approximately 600 visual effects shots. If VFX supervisor Michael Owens has his way, audiences won’t notice a single one....  »
11|19|2009

Chasing Spike Jonze's Wild Things

By Debra Kaufman

Nobody can accuse director Spike Jonze of making run-of-the-mill movies. From his feature directorial debut with Being John Malkovich, he showed a quirky sensibility that took a bizarre storyline to an exquisitely illogical extreme....  »
10|22|2009

Amelia Flies With Subtle VFX

By Bryant Frazer

Amelia is director Mira Nair's new biopic retelling the story of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific in an attempted around-the-world solo flight. Toronto's Mr. X delivered 277 shots that not only helped put Earhart — played here by Hillary Swank — in the air, but helped maintain the necessary illusion of a period piece....  »
09|09|2009

Director Shane Acker on 9

By Debra Kaufman

The release of director Shane Acker’s computer-animated feature film 9 has been a long time coming. It started life as a short that won best of show at the SIGGRAPH 2005 Electronic Theater and the gold medal for animation in the Student Academy Awards. Even better, the short "9" caught the attention of director Tim Burton who, along with Timur Bekmambetov, signed on to produce a feature-film version....  »
07|16|2009

Leaving a CG Blood Trail

By Bryant Frazer

From the moment Blood Trail, the debut feature screenplay from writer Matt Cochran, came over the transom at downtown New York creative studio Nathan Love, company founder Joe Burrascano got excited about the potential of creating an animated horror film....  »
07|01|2009

Co-Producer Bryan Carroll on the Tech Behind Public Enemies

By Debra Kaufman

A turning point in the career of Public Enemies producer Bryan Carroll was when he worked as a film and visual effects editor for James Cameron on Titanic. “That’s what sparked my interest into shooting movies digitally from script to screen,” he said....  »

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