LOS ANGELES — Rareform Pictures (www.rareformpictures.com) completed work on a VFX-heavy short about Karl Wallenda and his first high-wire performance. Wallenda is currently making its way through the ...
April 9, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — The line between live action and animation is becomingly increasingly blurred these days, with some very high-profile cross-fertilization going on. After directing the first three films in ...
April 4, 2012
The legacy of Star Wars just keeps on giving. Not only were the films blockbusters, they set a new standard for filmmaking and set an entire generation on a path to filmmaking.
Preservation and archiving have a checkered reputation in the post production world. There is a perception that archiving kills efficiency and productivity. As a result, production workflows tend not ...
April 24, 2012
I recently moderated a panel at the SXSW show in Austin, TX. The topic focused on pros who made the switch from Apple’s Final Cut Pro to Adobe’s Premiere Pro, and in each case were using Dell workstat ...
The first thing I noticed when opening the app is that it looked familiar. Very familiar. Sure there were new shaded lines in the bins, but the initial appearance was that of the same editor we know a ...
In my opinion, Apple prematurely released Final Cut Pro X this past June. That’s pretty much why I didn’t opt to review it for Post until now. It just wasn’t ready for prime time. Nor was ...
March 28, 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 ...
May 8, 2012
Artists working on visual effects for television series take pride in both the quality of their work and the efficiencies they’ve achieved to get results in such a short timeframe. Jim Clark of Hive F ...
LONDON — Academy Award winning animation studio Aardman (Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit) recently returned to theaters with the swashbuckling adventure The Pirates! In an Ad ...
May 1, 2012
NEW YORK — The culmination of a 12-year odyssey, The Three Stooges is a testament to the tenacity of co-directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Sam Seig served as editor on the project and reports the pro ...
April 10, 2012
IMG Media is the world’s largest independent distributor of sports programming, distributing over 20,000 hours of content to major global broadcasters annually. This content originates from more than ...
Haven't you always wanted to be able to take your AJA Kona card wrap it up and put it in your pocket and be off jet- setting around with your MacBook Pro and your camera of choice?
May 4, 2012
Imagineer Systems released Mocha Pro 3.0.0 with a bunch of new features that will make many of their customers happy as they meet their most urgent demands: On the management side, a layer tree system ...
April 11, 2012