January/February 2023

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    January/February 2023
    COVER STORY
    All Quiet on the Western Front 
    This latest film adaptation received nine Oscar nominations while showing the losing side of World War I 
    By Marc Loftus

    DIRECTOR’S CHAIR
    James Gray — Armageddon Time
    Avoiding genre labels while creating a deeply-personal feature
    By Iain Blair 

    EDITING
    Babylon director Damien Chazelle calls on frequent collaborator Tom Cross 
    By Marc Loftus

    OSCAR CONTENDERS 
    A look at this year’s nominees, with insight from the filmmakers who made them
    By Iain Blair  

    OSCAR SHORTS
    Filmmakers share their experience working on award-winning, short-form content
    By Marc Loftus

Departments

  • Director's Chair: James Gray — <I>Armageddon Time</I>
    Director's Chair: James Gray — Armageddon Time

    For his last film, Ad Astra, writer/director James Gray headed to outer space. For the one before that, The Lost City of Z, he headed to the Amazon jungle. For his latest drama, whose title Armageddon ...

    February 13, 2023

  • Editing: Paramount Pictures' <I>Babylon</I>
    Editing: Paramount Pictures' Babylon

    Paramount Pictures’ Babylon is set in 1920s Los Angeles, where the film industry is making the bumpy transition from silent films to talkies. Written and directed by Academy Award winner Damien Chazel ...

    February 13, 2023

Features

  • Filmmaking: Netflix's <I>All Quiet on the Western Front</I>
    Filmmaking: Netflix's All Quiet on the Western Front

    Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a young German soldier during World War I, who, along with his comrades, experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into de ...

    February 13, 2023

  • Oscar Contenders
    Oscar Contenders

    The 95th Academy Awards are almost here (March 12th), and the nominations are in. Of course, there are the usual shocks and surprises. One of the biggest surprises was the Oscar love for multiverse ad ...

    March 2, 2023

Web Exclusives

  • <I>Avatar: The Way of Water</I> colorist Tashi Trieu
    Avatar: The Way of Water colorist Tashi Trieu

    Avatar: The Way of Water is set more than a decade after the events of the first film. The new feature begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that fol ...

    February 15, 2023

  • <I>Puss In Boots: The Last Wish</I>: Making DreamWorks Animation's Oscar-nominated feature
    Puss In Boots: The Last Wish: Making DreamWorks Animation's Oscar-nominated feature

    DreamWorks Animation’s iconic swashbuckling feline returns for his greatest adventure yet in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, this new chapt ...

    March 2, 2023

  • <I>Trolled</I>: Making this experimental 'true-terror' feature
    Trolled: Making this experimental 'true-terror' feature

    Penwheel Productions’ (www.penwheeluniverse.com) Bobby Cloud and John F. Uranday recently completed work on a new experimental horror film titled Trolled. Cloud served as producer on the project, as w ...

    March 3, 2023

  • Careers: DreamWorks Animation's Maarten Lemmens
    Careers: DreamWorks Animation's Maarten Lemmens

    I am a 24 year old, full-time animator at DreamWorks Animation. I recently worked on the Oscar-nominated Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and am currently working on an unannounced movie at DreamWorks. M ...

    February 15, 2023

  • Careers: Lux Aeterna CEO/CD Rob Hifle
    Careers: Lux Aeterna CEO/CD Rob Hifle

    Rob Hifle is the CEO and creative director of Lux Aeterna (www.lavfx.com), a Bristol, UK-based studio that specializes in visual effects for broadcasters and streamers. The studio’s credits include wo ...

    March 8, 2023

  • How version control software saved one artist from near disaster
    How version control software saved one artist from near disaster

    Malaysian-based visual effects (VFX) artist and virtual production researcher Zubaida Nila was one of 21 finalists picked from 178 applicants for the six-week intensive Epic Games’ 2022 Women Creators ...

    February 13, 2023

  • Review: Yanobox's Motype 2
    Review: Yanobox's Motype 2

    Yanobox, the creator of Nodes and Mosaic, has released Motype 2, a spectacular text-based animation system for Apple’s Final Cut Pro X and Motion, and Adobe’s Premiere Pro and After Effects. As always ...

    February 24, 2023

Reviews

  • Review: Yanobox's Motype 2
    Review: Yanobox's Motype 2

    Yanobox, the creator of Nodes and Mosaic, has released Motype 2, a spectacular text-based animation system for Apple’s Final Cut Pro X and Motion, and Adobe’s Premiere Pro and After Effects. As always ...

    February 24, 2023