The deadline is looming and the team is already overloaded. Long hours and late nights with frayed nerves are the norm and as production manager you’ve just been given additional scenes to complete. A ...
July 20, 2012
LOS ANGELES — You may wonder what sushi has to do with Oishii Creative’s (www.oishiicreative.com) approach as a creative agency. Oishii is Japanese for “delicious” — a word, which this studio has rede ...
July 9, 2012
The visual effects and digital animation communities are in the enviable position of witnessing the positive impact of VFX on the box office. We are seeing profits rise continually, with a movie like ...
It is common for moviemakers and video producers to use sliders with interviews and other scenes that show little action. The motion produced by slowly sliding the video camera along a rail adds visua ...
July 2, 2012
GenArts is one of the tops visual effects plug-in companies in the world. They are widely known for their set of Sapphire plug-ins, which set the standard by which other plug-ins are judged. This rele ...
June 14, 2012
When Microsoft Studios asked composer Gordy Haab what he thought was the best way for Kinect Star Wars to meet the production value of the original film scores, Haab jokingly said, “The London Symphon ...
June 8, 2012
Producers of Oscar-winning film The Shore accepted an Academy Award without knowing if the original director’s cut would ever be viewed again. The father/daughter team, Terry and Oorlagh George, exper ...
June 1, 2012
As a visual effects firm, we often experience duality not only in the effects we produce, but also when piecing together the creative vision we pitch to our clients. Case in point: I jumped for joy re ...
May 31, 2012
When Avid announced the release of Pro Tools 10, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. Hadn’t Pro Tools 9 just come out? Jump cut to last year’s AES convention, I had the opportunity to see an Avid presen ...
May 24, 2012
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May 14, 2012