From the first characters scribbled on a writer’s napkin, a production begins to take shape through a series of arduous steps — treatment to rough, scripting to re-write, pre-pro, to (hope ...
February 2, 2010
MIAMI — When the energy level at LandShark Stadium starts to dip a bit, Brendan Nieto, senior manager of production and programming for the Miami Dolphins, knows how to amp-up the crowd. Nieto and his ...
January 5, 2010
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