HOLLYWOOD — Twenty-eight years after Disney Studios’ pioneering visual effects sci-fi Tron became an indelible part of the cyber-cultural consciousness, Tron: Legacy — a sequel using the latest and gr ...
December 6, 2010
NEW YORK — I first met Gareth Edwards, director/writer of the new Magnolia Films offering Monsters, two years ago in Amsterdam during the IBC show. We were sitting next to each other at an Adobe dinne ...
LONDON — British director Michael Apted has led an interesting double life since moving to Hollywood in the late seventies. While helming such big studio hits as the Academy Award-winning Coal Miner's ...
Welcome, once again, to our year-end trends issue where we ask the industry to reflect on the past year and look ahead to the next. In addition to our SWOTs (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and T ...
While many studios have behaved cautiously during the shaky economy, NYC’s Sound Lounge is expanding its facility and services, hoping to become more of a full-service audio post house and further gro ...
Second only to staring at the walls in my office, I stare at a screen all day, every day. Having been able to review monitors and graphics systems for quite a few years now, I’ve grown accustomed to s ...
Despite — or because of — the ongoing grim economic picture, 2010 was a pretty good year for Hollywood. Audiences, happy to forget the recession and their financial woes for a couple of hours, headed ...
I haven't met Steven Cohen, but after reading his book, Avid Agility ($36.88), I feel like I have. Cohen was a pioneer in nonlinear editing, cutting the first studio feature to use Avid ( Lost in Yonk ...
December 28, 2010
As Dive looks towards 2011, we look beyond the digital acquisition format revolution that has changed our industry. New cameras will release with greater expectations in the year ahead.
This is an incredibly exciting time to be in our industry. We have transitioned from the traditional television and broadcast era into a truly-digital age, where developing platforms are creating ...
December 9, 2010
The landscape of marketing, advertising and entertainment is rapidly evolving, bringing with it a fair amount of confusion and uncertainty. Editorial shops, once strong and vibrant, have been for ...
For the visual effects industry, 2010 was a year of huge peaks and valleys in terms of projects. A year of feast or famine, with a large influx of work, followed intermittently with slower periods. We ...
Gnomon is a brick & mortar institution that teaches approximately 350 students every term. The school specializes in visual effects and videogame design, and was founded in 1997. They also offer o ...
It is fair to say that in today’s world of commercials that rely heavily on visual effects for storytelling purposes, there are a lot more creative people who understand this medium in its entirety th ...
As a former SGI employee (prior to founding Small Tree), I had a great deal of exposure to the SAN/NAS schism that occurred a decade and a half ago. The issue was simple: We could not build NAS machin ...
The evolution of the music library business has been driven by the digital revolution.