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| 09|01|2005 |
By Barbara RobertsonWhen heads rolled in ancient Rome, it was a spectacle. Blood flowed in the Forum. Authentically but invisibly recreating the violence in the Empire for the BBC and HBO’s $100 million miniseries required a... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Sharon KennedyFor DP Adam Kane (ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy) and director Jon Amiel (Entrapment, The Man Who Knew Too Little), establishing a distinct look and feel for each time period depicted in the flashback-heavy... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
HD spots are still rare animals— uncommon enough that Bausch & Lomb decided to make an HD finish a selling point for contact lenses. "See your world in High Definition" is the tag line for a... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Debra KaufmanFor a NASCAR sequence in a recent Ford spot, lensed by director Jaume (Collet-Serra) out of production company Believe, KromA took on the job of creating photoreal cars that would be indistinguishable from... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Bryant Frazer"This is not like any other TV show in the history of the medium." That’s the rather modest claim of Mick Garris, creator of the new Showtime series Masters of Horror, which debuts in October. The... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Rebecca MerleBeck’s video "Girl" is one of those puzzles that prompts a pro to ask "How did they do that, anyway?" The challenge was to illustrate the singer’s darkly inflected but light-sounding... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
Interviewed by Bob FisherAs War of the Worlds opened this summer, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was already in Malta shooting his next picture for Steven Spielberg, a still-untitled film focusing on the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the Israeli team during the 1972 Olympic games.... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
By Debra KaufmanFashion illustrator/artist Robert Wagt doesn’t do animation but when his work for Alize’s print campaign was sent to Thought Agency and PURE ( New York) as reference, PURE’s creative director Aaron King... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
Final post work for U2’s "City of Blinding Lights" (directed by Partizan’s Alex & Martin) was completed at Los Angeles -based KromA, whose main task was conforming a DigiBeta master using... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
Director David Fincher returns to music videos with a CGI promo for "Only" by Nine Inch Nails. Flexing his photoreal muscles, Digital Domain VFX supervisor Eric Barba turned an everyday workspace... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
By Bryant FrazerFox’s newest blockbuster franchise, Fantastic Four , is a superhero saga that’s all about characters— that’s why it was critical that the film’s lead VFX house, Giant Killer Robots (GKR), figure out... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
By Michael GrotticelliWhether the low-budget Ultraviolet— a Sony Screen Gems August release about a subculture of genetically modified humans— is a box office success remains to be seen. But behind the scenes on the sci-fi... »
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| 07|01|2005 |
— Michelle PasterThanks to the momentum generated by sales of nearly 3 million DVD box sets and repeated cable airings, Fox’s Family Guy is back by popular demand after its 2002 cancellation in season three. ... »
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| 07|01|2005 |
By Alison JohnsAn inventive stylist who rarely repeats himself, Mark Romanek has found ways to amplify pop music on film in quirky, personal ways. He’s done it for Beck, David Bowie, Jay-Z and Johnny Cash. Recently the... »
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| 06|01|2005 |
By Bob FisherA camera mounted on a gyro-stabilized Lev head is rigged to an Ultimate Arm mounted on a Mercedes SL55 tracking for the high-speed Batmobile chase. Using a remote control, an operator can whip the crane around... »
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