09|01|2005

Playing It Safe with CG Cars

By Debra Kaufman

For a NASCAR sequence in a recent Ford spot, lensed by director Jaume (Collet-Serra) out of production company Believe, KromA took on the job of creating photoreal cars that would be indistinguishable from...  »
09|01|2005

Forget the Director, Hire the VFX Guy

By Debra Kaufman

When NetZero decided to create a campaign to push its next-generation connectivity, its in-house creative team came up with a concept: A man in a futuristic white room sits at a desk with a computer, out of...  »
09|01|2005

Where It’s At: Beck Unfolds

By Rebecca Merle

Beck’s video "Girl" is one of those puzzles that prompts a pro to ask "How did they do that, anyway?" The challenge was to illustrate the singer’s darkly inflected but light-sounding...  »
09|01|2005

How to Tease The Da Vinci Code

By Bryant Frazer

How do you effectively promote an upcoming blockbuster without a single frame of footage? You might do it with a clever combination of miniature shooting, motion capture and 3D animation. West Hollywood’s...  »
08|01|2005

What’s Around the Photoreal Corner

By Debra Kaufman

Director Joseph Kosinski came out of engineering and architecture, where he learned and used CAD programs to design. "While learning those, I realized how powerful they are and how I could use them to...  »
08|01|2005

Paper Doll Collage

By Debra Kaufman

Fashion illustrator/artist Robert Wagt doesn’t do animation but when his work for Alize’s print campaign was sent to Thought Agency and PURE ( New York) as reference, PURE’s creative director Aaron King...  »
08|01|2005

It’s "Only" CGI

Director David Fincher returns to music videos with a CGI promo for "Only" by Nine Inch Nails. Flexing his photoreal muscles, Digital Domain VFX supervisor Eric Barba turned an everyday workspace...  »
08|01|2005

Flash Equals Financial Freedom

By Michelle Paster

Cartoon Network’s Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi may just reinvent the way animators think about 2D. Many animated TV shows are still based on pencil-and-paper drawings, which are scanned into conventional animation...  »
08|01|2005

Giving Digital People That Human Spark

By Bryant Frazer

Fox’s newest blockbuster franchise, Fantastic Four , is a superhero saga that’s all about characters— that’s why it was critical that the film’s lead VFX house, Giant Killer Robots (GKR), figure out...  »
07|01|2005

Robert Rodriguez’s Posse

By Debra Kaufman

Troublemaker Studios is as far from a typical Hollywood VFX house as it is from Hollywood itself....  »

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