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WHAT'S IN STORE FOR '09
Published: December 1, 2008
It's that time of the year again — SWOT time! Once again we ask pros about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of our industry. We also ask them to tell us what they think is in store for the upcoming year. We put together a great panel this go-around, and added a new topic — the Red camera.
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COVER STORY: 'MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA'
Published: October 28, 2008
This animated PDI/DreamWorks sequel takes advantage of all the light and color the continent has to offer.
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WORKING AS A TEAM
Published: October 28, 2008
Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath co-directed, as well as co-wrote, along with Etan Cohen, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The two have been a team for almost nine years. So how did they divvy up the work on this sequel to the popular Madagascar, a PDI/DreamWorks film that stars the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Jada Pinkett Smith, among others?
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IBC IN 500 WORDS OR LESS
Published: September 30, 2008
IBC ‘08 in Amsterdam was very busy but in a relaxed way; it’s like NAB on Xanax, and I like it! Could have done without the fish sandwiches being offered at the RAI convention center — head and all — but other than that, a country that serves cheese for breakfast and lunch is my kinda place.
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OMNITEK BRINGS NEW MEASUREMENT TOOLS TO IBC
Published: September 12, 2008
AMSTERDAM – UK-based OmniTek (www.omnitek.tv), the makers of advanced measurement technology, are at the show with two new products: the OTM 1000 (standard case) advanced waveform monitor and signal generator, and the OTR 1003 (3RU chassis) advanced signal generator and data analyzer.
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DIRECTOR'S CHAIR: STEVEN ESTEB - 'DIRTY POLITICS'
Published: September 2, 2008
BATON ROUGE, LA — Doesn't it feel like the 2008 presidential campaign
has been going on forever? So who will it be? Obama or McCain? Well,
after audiences get a look at Steven Esteb's Dirty Politics, they might
swing their vote to Jimmy Breaux, the painfully and hilariously
politically incorrect candidate featured in this satirical indie
offering.
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REAL-WORLD LESSONS
Published: September 2, 2008
Recently I had the pleasure to discuss editing with a 21-year-old college student who was interning at a local house in New York. He loved that his employer gave him the opportunity to do his own cut of a :30 spot they had just delivered to their client.
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SOFTIMAGE SHIPS XSI 7
Published: August 8, 2008
LOS ANGELES - The release of Softimage|XSI 7 is “a huge leap forward” for the software, according to the company’s global PR manager Kevin G. Clark. Within the new version of this 3D animation software – now shipping - is the ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) platform which takes hand scripting out of the equation and adds a node-based model, making it easier for artists to make an effect themselves or to customize an effect more easily than before.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADE SHOWS
Published: August 4, 2008
With so much information available at our fingertips via the Web these days — from product updates to user forums — and travel costs through the roof, are trade shows becoming obsolete? While some might say yes, others believe it's hard to beat the advantages of a good old-fashioned trade show... foot pain and all.
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DI: 'HANCOCK' DIRECTOR PETER BERG TURNS TO TECHNICOLOR
Published: July 18, 2008
CULVER CITY, CA — What if all you want to do is kick back with a few cold ones and watch TV, but fate has bigger plans? You see, fate wants you to be a superhero. So you begrudgingly save someone here and there, but your heart is not in it, the public knows it, and they're annoyed. You're only option is a public relations expert to turn things around. Such is the life of Will Smith in Sony Pictures' Hancock.
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