Fight for Life focused on the body’s ability to fight life-threatening health issues from infancy through old age, and Jellyfish’s work enabled producers to go into the body to examine trauma, all the way to the microscopic level.... »
According to Eric Hanson, CEO, Spy Post is "the only company North of Los Angeles and West of the Rockies and possibly West of the Mississippi that can offer high-end visual effects including Flame and CG, VFX editorial, color correction and film-to-tape transfer with a Spirit, as well as a full HD-based digital intermediate pipeline."... »
When F&V covered Vision III Imaging last fall, company founder Chris Mayhew gave us the details behind his “depth-enhancement” technology, which uses special “parallax scanning” lens adapters to capture depth information and give 2D footage an almost three-dimensional quality.... »
Digital Kitchen, which considers itself a non-traditional design shop, is quite literally all over the map, having produced site-specific "experiential" pieces in Hong Kong, Las Vegas and New York’s South Street Seaport.... »
As one of several DPs working on the TV show Mythbusters since 2004, Peter Heap has shot about half of the series’ roughly 100 episodes. This includes capturing footage inside an underwater car, from a helicopter high above the Rockies, beside 100 pounds of explosives (and a burning fuse), and extremely close to live alligators, a 747, a cruise ship and frighteningly loud machine guns.... »
As cable channels get more adventurous with original programming, the scope of VFX jobs for TV is expanding dramatically. For the recent six-hour Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man — a loose contemporary adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Vancouver VFX shop Anthem FX ramped up production to crank out no fewer than 1500 FX shots for delivery in the HDCAM SR 4:4:4 format.... »
Filmmaker Bob Landis may have a home office, but his soundstage is Yellowstone National Park. More than 300 days out of every year, he takes his trusty Sony HDW-730 camcorder out on the road, driving into Yellowstone and following the wildlife around in search of beautiful and revelatory instances of animal behavior. ... »
The new ingredient in editor Stuart Bass's editorial stew is Avid's ScriptSync feature, introduced this spring at NAB, which automatically matches camera takes to lines of dialogue in the show's script. ... »
