Madame X is a new concert film that captures the live experience of Madonna’s latest tour. Shot in Lisbon, Portugal, and Paris, France, the film is a combination of singing, dancing, moving set pieces ...
December 22, 2021
Searchlight Pictures’ Nightmare Alley follows the charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), who finds work at a traveling carnival. It is there that he endears himself to cla ...
January 28, 2022
Home is where the heart is, but for the Madrigals, the focus of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ (WDAS’) 60th feature film, Encanto, home is where the magic happens.
January 7, 2022
The MPSE hosted several virtual events in 2021, including our 68th Golden Reel Awards ceremony. It was a huge success and attended by sound editors and many others around the globe. But, as much fun a ...
December 13, 2021
Virtual production using LED screens has rapidly gone from a pioneering specialty to a mainstream technique. But the experience has not always been smooth, with the LED screen often being a fixed poin ...
December 7, 2021
For as long as I’ve been in the VFX industry, creating photorealistic digital humans has always been one of the hardest challenges. Though incredible progress has been made, this type of work is still ...
If you had told me in March of 2020 that our studios would remain mostly empty for 18 months and we would still be in business, I would have bet against that. And, thankfully, I would have been wrong.
During the pandemic, post production was challenged to make swift technological changes to how we and the people we support work. People adapted to working from home, which for many has become a forev ...
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is one driven by innovation and creative problem solving, traits that are essential in difficult times, especially during a global pandemic. When it beca ...
The amount of data created in the next three years is projected to exceed the volume of data from the last three decades, according to an IDC report. This explosive growth is fueled, in part, by the o ...
At the start of the COVID lockdown, surrounded by a fortress of all the G-Drives I could fit into an Uber when I fled my Manhattan office, the thought of more work than I could handle seemed impossibl ...
The events of the last two years have transformed our personal and professional lives, challenging us to find new paths to continue moving forward. For many in the content-production industry, this tr ...
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was established in 2018 in partnership between the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Linux Foundation with the aim of serving as a neutral fo ...
For many artists and studios unaccustomed to remote workflows, 2020 was a year of trial and error. In 2021, the focus shifted from remote workflow adoption to optimization, a trend that will continue ...
The editing duo of Lawrence Gan and Ernesto Matamoros-Cox recently worked on Arcane (https://arcane.com), Riot Games’ flagship animated series, based on the global game phenomenon “League of Legends”.
December 9, 2021
Daniel Pemberton is the composer behind the new Amazon Studios film Being the Ricardos. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, the film stars Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arn ...
January 4, 2022
The Spine of Night is an independently-animated film, produced and drawn frame-by-frame by a small team of animators. Inspired by the fantasy genre of the 1970s, but not based on any specific work, th ...
January 19, 2022
We all know someone in our life who pushes us beyond our comfort zone, to try new things, even when that little voice inside our head tells us we can’t or we shouldn’t. Enrico Casarosa, director of Di ...
December 16, 2021
Perhaps it is ironic that complex 3D technology was used to create The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated feature about a Luddite father who utilizes his low-tech natural skills to save his famil ...
As the production world becomes more dynamic, distinguishing which details deserve attention is paramount to maintaining the authenticity of a performance. This level of expectation goes for audio jus ...
British director/producer Joe Wright first grabbed Hollywood’s attention with his debut film, 2005’s Pride & Prejudice, which won a raft of awards and four Oscar nominations. He followed that up w ...
January 5, 2022
There is no question that 2022 will be the year of virtual production. Although the pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated awareness around virtual production (VP) technology and workflows, it also made ...
December 21, 2021
The notion of moving away from expensive, custom solutions with multi-year buildouts and vendor lock-in isn’t new. What appears to be new going into 2022 is much faster movement away from that model t ...
December 10, 2021
Quick, take out your phone. Now snap a picture of this screen. What direction was your phone pointing?
2021 was a landmark year, filled with remaining uncertainty about the pandemic and how our industry would adjust accordingly. We have all been incredibly resourceful, resilient and flexible the past y ...
January 3, 2022
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, studios and artists have had to adapt to the new normal of remote and hybrid work environments. The idea of this was unsettling to some from a productivity, IT, logis ...
January 6, 2022
Over the past year, remote work has become a permanent fixture of post production. Many artists like the flexibility of working from home, and clients have grown to accept it. Prior to the pandemic, i ...
We’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster the past year and a half, and not just those of us in post production, but people in every industry. It’s been a little scary, but it’s also been a time for re ...
Over the next few years, the nature of how we view video is going to change. In fact, it’s already begun. For decades, the evolution of video has been fairly linear: Updates have brought crisper image ...
Three key trends we’ll see in 2022 are that content will remain king, teams that effectively work and collaborate remotely will win the content race, and we’ll continue to see the benefits of shared s ...
As you binge watched your favorite TV show last weekend, the carbon footprint of its production was probably the last thing on your mind. However, given the current global climate emergency, it’s no s ...
Before the onset of the pandemic, working from home was not so “workable” for one particular category of professionals: post production creatives. This is because editors, finishing editors and motion ...
December 15, 2021
Tadeusz Lysiak’s live-action short The Dress (Sukienka) won an Oscar-qualifying award at the 2021 Atlanta Film Festival. The 30-minute Polish film focuses on a woman with dwarfism, Julia, who works as ...
December 8, 2021
Annie St-Pierre’s live-action short film Like the Ones I Used to Know (Les Grandes Claques) focuses on a father who goes to his former in-laws’ house to collect his children on Christmas Eve. The shor ...