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| 02|09|2012 |
By Scott Strohmaier
They’re ferocious, vicious, dangerous and they’re headed straight for you … online. Discovery Network’s Web promos for hit shows River Monsters and Shark Week offer up a heart-pounding view of some frighteningly real underwater creatures brought to life with of Maxon’s Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects.... »
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| 01|25|2012 |
By Scott Strohmaier
Two years in the making, The Art of Flight is a sports-action film that takes audiences on an epic snowboarding journey.... »
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| 12|22|2011 |
By Meleah Maynard
Hollywood design agency The Ether created a new visual of the tower for Tower Heist's trailer, using 3D graphics and bold typography to emphasize the building's importance in the film.... »
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| 07|28|2011 |
By Meleah Maynard
All Sam Balcomb and Jeff Dodson of Rainfall Films knew was that they needed to create 25 VFX shots in which Los Angeles would crumble and burn as if it were the apocalypse. And they needed to do it in five days.... »
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| 06|23|2011 |
By Barbara Robertson
An enviable group of award-winning visual effects supervisors powered Super 8’s post-production. Film & Video talked with ILM's Kim Libreri about VFX production for what could be this summer’s favorite family film.... »
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| 05|17|2011 |
By Meleah Maynard
Creating a visual metaphor that tells a sweeping story while capturing the feel of a particularly tumultuous time in history in just minutes is no easy task. But Imaginary Forces bills itself as a creative agency that likes a good challenge.... »
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| 02|23|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Historical recreations are expensive. That's why director Robert Child determined that he would shoot footage for The Wereth 11 one little piece at a time — he was getting elements in the can, not full scene tableaux. StudioDaily asked Frederic Lumiere of Lumiere Media to describe the challenge of editing a project that's made up of tiny bits and pieces, rather than coherent shots and scenes.... »
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| 02|09|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Justified returns tonight for a second season on FX, and cinematographer Francis Kenny, ASC, says the show looks better than ever. Why is that? The show upgraded from the F35 to Sony’s newer SRW-9000PL in the hiatus, but the important thing is that Justified upgraded its image processing. Tonight, Justified becomes the first show to be broadcast using a new color-encoding workflow for television and digital cinema.... »
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| 12|21|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
One of the magical elements of the latest Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is a menacing green mist that preys on characters' vulnerabilities and takes advantage of their weaknesses and desires. As one character puts it, "It seeks to corrupt all goodness — to steal the light from this world." It fell to Cinesite to figure out how to do justice to that idea, combining realistic simulations of the mist with subtle performance-animation aspects that would bring the smoky tentacles to life.... »
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| 11|02|2010 |
By Melissa Tinklepaugh
For Givenchy’s new fragrance “Play for Her,” fashion ad agency Anton & Partners turned to Nola Pictures and wild(child) post to create time-lapse effects and sync the movement of city lights with music in the :30 spot.... »
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