It may be time for digital intermediates to have a name change. Initially coined to describe a digital approach to a film process (i.e., the digital intermediate between film scanning and film print r ...

May 21, 2012

Much to the delight of producers — and to audiences on the receiving end of stereo 3D content — options for high-quality 2D-to-3D conversion have increased in the last few years. A number of facilitie ...

May 15, 2012

Post production today is no longer a discrete process practiced off-set after production has wrapped. Instead, post often begins on-set with a workflow designed to enhance creativity while production ...

April 24, 2012

Data, data everywhere: Finding the right storage to fit your workflow is critical.

March 8, 2012

Test commercials have come a long way from the days when animation stands were used to shoot storyboards and the resulting quick-turnaround animatics were presented to focus groups to determine which ...

February 21, 2012

LOS ANGELES — To bring Brian Selznick’s unique illustrated novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” to the screen, director Martin Scorsese teamed with top names in VFX to ensure that stereo 3D was used t ...

December 2, 2011

Technicolor colorist Sam Daley believes that colorists are a “secret weapon” for DPs working “behind the scenes and in the dark.” He calls a colorist “a conduit for the cinematographer. If a cinematog ...

September 6, 2011

It’s the season for superheros and the supernatural, as the new crop of summer features comes to a multiplex near you. Visual effects studios, whose modelers, animators and compositors have been toili ...

July 13, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO — An alien invasion of the Old West. “From the VFX side it doesn’t get any better than a mash-up of the two genres,” says VFX supervisor/2nd unit director Roger Guyett of San Francisco’s ...

July 13, 2011

The downturn in the economy has meant boom times for developers of facility management software designed to help companies of all sizes operate more efficiently.

June 28, 2011