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| 10|17|2007 |
Matt Armstrong“Fix It in Post” is an old adage used on production (usually one meant to be reassuring when used by producers, an inside joke when the crew says it). In most cases its better, and cheaper, to get it right on set than to try to do it in post. But on Road to Empire, there was no other option. ... »
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| 10|11|2007 |
By Dan Daley“Dense” is a word that's often used to characterize a film’s sound. But when it’s coupled with certain other adjectives, such as “piercing,” “jangling” and “shrill,” that indicates something more unusual. That may be an apt description for the aural setting of American Gangster, director Ridley Scott’s vivid retelling of the tale of Frank Lucas, the African-American hood who challenged the Mafia for dominance in the heroin trade in New York in the 1970s. ... »
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| 10|11|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerFor a Eureka spot commissioned by the Doner agency, Blur Studio's design department and its 3D department worked together to show a photoreal, all-CG house being swept clean by the new Capture vacuum model.... »
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| 10|03|2007 |
Matt ArmstrongIn the new Nike spot directed by Michael Mann via Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Asylum FX was charged with seamlessly transitioning two star football players – Shawn Merriman and Stephen Jackson – from game to game, stadium to stadium in varying weather conditions, day and night.... »
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| 09|27|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerCinematographer Robert McLachlan uses Clairmont strobes for an unusual practical effect when he shoots action for Bionic Woman.... »
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| 09|26|2007 |
Matt ArmstrongDirector Juan Delcan is a live-action commercial director with a growing animation hobby. He’s down animated projects for U2, the Sundance Film Festival, and poet laureate Billy Collins, but considers himself a fairly poor animator. ... »
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| 09|11|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerChristopher Rouse is no stranger to action cinema — he worked on The Bourne Supremacy in 2002, and followed that up with demanding co-editing gigs on The Italian Job, with director F. Gary Gray, and Paycheck, with director John Woo, in 2003.... »
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| 08|29|2007 |
Matt ArmstrongDirector Cisma of BlackList transforms Pittsburgh Steelers’ star safety Troy Polamalu into a dark, fearsome animated character, inflicting punishment on his opponents in the new spot"The Line", creating the hand-drawn charcoal look in CG and animating difficult task of animating the violence of football. ... »
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| 08|23|2007 |
By Barbara RobertsonThe effects in Stardust might not push the state of the art, but clever techniques made it possible to create an 800-shot well-designed fantasy film that holds its own, even with a less-than-magical budget.... »
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| 08|16|2007 |
Matt ArmstrongThe new :60 spot for MillerLite “Break from the Crowd” required meticulous pre-production planning, extensive pre-visualization, motion capture, a script that allowed Maya nCloth to drive and control agents created in Massive Software, complex CG and compositing work... »
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| 08|16|2007 |
Mike GrotticelliFor Transcendent Man, Therapy Studios managed hundreds of hours of tapeless P2 footage, archiving it to DLT tape, and edited and finished the film with aan Avid Media Composer and Quantel iQ. ... »
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| 08|03|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerIt’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.... »
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| 08|01|2007 |
Thomas StrodelThe newly re-opened Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City tells the story of human evolution from our earliest ancestors through the development of modern language... »
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| 07|30|2007 |
Matt ArmstrongPierre Michel was offered what most artists dream of from a client: carte blanche to create whatever he envisioned. The project was to create the opening for the French film festival "Polar dans la ville" ("Polar in the town"), which would be printed to 35mm film and projected at about 40 cinemas around Paris as well as on television. ... »
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| 07|30|2007 |
Scott SimmonsWe don’t often hear about are the stories of everyday Iraqis who must attempt to live normal lives in and around the fighting. Hometown Baghdad was brought to the Internet to change that.... »
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