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.... »
Shorten your compositing time with a filter that combines chroma key, spill suppression, matte choker and a light wrap compositing step under the hood.... »
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.... »
Arlington Steward (James Langella), who drops in on a financially challenged young couple with a chilly financial proposition, is a burn victim who's missing a significant portion of flesh on the left side of his head.... »
“You can wait your whole life,” says animation director Ken Lidster, “to get a script that has the opening line: ‘Open on a stop-motion animated world in which Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Sasquatch, a leprechaun, an alien, and a Diet Dr. Pepper deliveryman discuss the public’s inability to believe in them.’”... »
Why is it that a film released in August and met with dismal initial reviews continues to rake it in at the box office? 'Tis the season to be gory, especially in three dimensions. The Final Destination, still awaiting release in Japan, Australia, Italy and Spain, has reaped nearly $100 million around the world to date and $65.8 million in the U.S. Sure, it is a franchise film with an established fan base, but that’s not grim by anyone’s standards. 3D made the difference.... »
Michael Waldron, nailgun*'s creative and live action director, shares the experience of shooting the show open for Girls Next Door in Hef's house.... »
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.... »
Since I’m one of these guys who hate reading software reviews, I’m going to cut to the chase and just go to the final conclusions. This look at 3ds Max 2010 is the first installment of a series of honest, no-hype reviews.... »
Digieffects, a developer of popular visual effects software plug-ins, today announced that Camera Mapper is available for purchase. Camera Mapper, a plugin for Adobe After Effects, allows you to simulate a 3D scene from 2D stills or footage. It allows you to isolate one or several objects in your footage, project these objects on a separate layer and pull that layer out of the background, creating the visual illusion of the object floating in front of the original footage.... »
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