Christopher 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.... »
Director 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. ... »
The 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.... »
The 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... »
For 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. ... »
It’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.... »
Pierre 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. ... »
We 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.... »
Veteran VFX Supervisor Scott Farrar of ILM (center) with ILM's Russell Early (left) and Transformers D.P. Mitch Amundsen on set in Detroit. Farrar says Transformers is the film where CG robots became more "real" than anything that could be physically built.... »
At CineGear a group of esteemed pros joined a panel discussion to talk about the 4K workflow on a couple of short films using the DALSA Origin Camera and the exerience all the way through editing and color correction. ... »
About six years ago Grzegorz Jonkajtys came up with the concept of a CG-animated short film. In March he completed the film, The Ark, employing motion control for many of the background environments and managing to create and render virtually the entire 1920x1080 short on just his laptop.... »
If you’ve seen Live Free or Die Hard — or even if you’ve just seen the trailers, which emphasize the film’s trademark outlandish action sequences — you may think of the various stunts, including the “money shot” involving a car tumbling through the air and smashing into the hoods of two more cars traveling on the ground, as a veritable CG-fest. But you’d be wrong.... »
Director Brandon Dickerson just finished a Switchfoot music video that featured painstakingly realized "photomation" scenes — created by inkjet-printing 1224 separate frames of HVX200-captured performance footage, hand-tearing the band members out of each frame, and then re-photographing the performance, frame by frame, on a cardboard-box stage. ... »
With footage shot on location, and stock footage, used essentially just for background plates, it was up to Asylum to show the evolution of the earth in CG. ... »
The History Channel's new hit show, Ice Road Truckers, is all about the men who drive big trucks across frozen Canadian lakes, hauling essential supplies to the diamond mines in the far north by traveling roads built across great expanses of frozen lakes. If it takes nerves of steel for the drivers, who can actually hear the ice cracking under their groaning rigs, it also takes a certain kind of grit to ride shotgun with an HD camera. That's what DP Gavin Brennan found out last January, when he hit the Northern Territories to start the three-month shoot. F&V asked him about extreme cold, frozen pixels, and dangerous driving.... »
