The recently-released, groundbreaking production of Avatar routinely required new techniques to be invented — sometimes on the fly — to fulfill director James Cameron’s uncompromisin ...
December 29, 2009
SEATTLE - When Mike McAuliffe, Dave Howe and Tom McGurk started to kick around the idea of buying Bad Animals (www.badanimals.com), the thing that intrigued them the most was the opportunity to reshap ...
December 28, 2009
SANTA MONICA, CA - New Hat is more than the name of a boutique-sized color grading facility that launched in Santa Monica in 2008 — it’s also the way it does business. The company is deter ...
With shooting underway more than two years ago, the creative story behind The Lovely Bones has been a long time in the making. Faced with a complex story line, remote editing locations and an extended ...
December 16, 2009
Alex Moulton, creative director at Expansion Team in New York City, says creativity doesn't have to suffer because of smaller budgets.
December 9, 2009
Alex Lasarenko, creative director at Tonal in New York City, says anytime you can use your creative skills, it presents an opportunity.
Sean Henry, executive producer at Calabash Animation in Chicago, says clients today expect more bang for the buck.
HOLLYWOOD - Thanks to Gary Hecker, the world ends with a bang, not a whimper. Hecker recently served as supervising Foley artist on the new Roland Emmerich film 2012 and, as such, it largely fell to h ...
December 1, 2009
AlphaDogs is a multi-room facility that handles a lot of cable work, particularly reality programming. The studio is posting Project Runway and Models of the Runway, and recently handled color correct ...
November 25, 2009
Crew Cuts has spent the greater part of 2009 building on, and solidifying, its infrastructure in order to maintain a talented, diversified and nimble post production facility.