03|08|2010

Moving More VFX to the DI Suite

By Bryant Frazer

Advances in speed and power are increasingly making the DI suite the more efficient place to work on certain kinds of VFX....  »
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|27|2010

Going Inside the Womb for BabyCenter

By Bryant Frazer

3 Dart broke down the human gestation period into seven animated segments each covering between two and four weeks in the process, starting from about a week after conception and finishing off with labor and delivery....  »
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....  »
01|13|2010

Production Workflow for Investigation Discovery's The Shift

By Bryant Frazer

Footage for Investigation Discovery's reality crime show The Shift is captured on location by a mere two shooters who double and triple as producers and directors, wielding Sony HVR-Z1U HDV cameras with Sennheiser shotgun mics....  »
01|08|2010

How Renegade Expanded Its MPEG-2 Workflow

By Bryant Frazer

One of the bottlenecks in Renegade’s workflow historically has been its system for encoding files for MPEG-2 based deliverables. Now, Renegade has retired that solution in favor of a StreamZHD server from Digital Rapids connected to its Unity and a 4 TB NAS box....  »
01|05|2010

How Weta Digital Handled Avatar

By Barbara Robertson

Avatar, director James Cameron’s second billion-dollar baby, stretched the process of making a visual effects blockbuster as much as it is stretching the imagination of audiences streaming into theaters to revel in an alien world....  »
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....  »
12|17|2009

How Shed Media and Catalyst Post Ramped Up for Reality

By Bryant Frazer

Before production began on new seasons of ABC's Supernanny, Bravo's Real Housewives of New York, and CMT's World's Strictest Parents, Catalyst Post got production company Shed Media US up to speed with a flotilla of new Avid DX and Unity systems....  »
11|19|2009

Colorist Dave Cole Opens Up The Box

By Bryant Frazer

F&V spoke to The Box’s DI colorist at LaserPacific, Dave Cole, about the work that went on behind the scenes to make sure the filmmakers had exactly the right perspective on their footage....  »

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