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| 03|06|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
While 3D production and post was the headline issue at this year’s HPA Technology Retreat, the variety of topics under discussion during the conference was typically wide-ranging. On the post side, speakers spoke about everything from the state of the art in tapeless workflows to the bleeding edge of digital-cienma distribution. Here’s a brief round-up.... »
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| 02|28|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
Is the current 3D renaissance poised to leverage a full-blown transformation of movie-making technology? That was the story coming out of this week's Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat in Palm Springs, CA, where hundreds of the proverbial brightest minds in the business gathered to get a jump on the future of the industry.... »
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| 01|31|2008 |
By Dan Daley
The three Fs of layout – “form follows function” – are truest inside post-production facilities. In fact, they might add a fourth “F” to the equation, for “frequently”: the rate at which technology forces changes to facility design can be as fast as the technology advances themselves.... »
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| 01|17|2008 |
By Debra Kaufman
The massive number of tapes resulting from multiple 18-camera shoots of U2’s 3-hour "Vertigo" concert tour was just the beginning. The production attempted to clone the original tapes as quickly as possible. Then the edit began. And 3ality Digital Systems got into gear to solve some of stereo filmmaking's most persistent problems.... »
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| 01|17|2008 |
By Debra Kaufman
Rock groups don't get any bigger than U2, which brings along a thunderously entertaining stage show wherever it goes. Stereoscopic 3D production company 3ality traveled with the Dublin lads to several concert dates in Mexico and South America. What was the big idea? To make a 3D concert movie as intense and explosive as the band's performance.... »
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| 12|13|2007 |
By Barbara Robertson
The word on the street is: see Beowulf in 3D. So F&V talked with two of the people responsible: Sony Pictures Imageworks’ 3D mavens, Buzz Hayes, senior visual effects producer, and Rob Engle, stereographer and digital fx supervisor.... »
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| 08|23|2007 |
By Bryant Frazer
here some people see a digital still camera, Eric Hanson sees the building block for an insanely detailed panorama that, with the right kind of VFX knowhow, can be turned into a compelling backdrop or a 3D scene background for visual effects artists.... »
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| 08|09|2007 |
By Dan Daley
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| 07|26|2007 |
By Debra Kaufman
Up until now, the 3-D film has been a fad. But Hollywood first got hip to the idea that stereoscopic versions of 3D CG animated features could be created, and now are eyeing large format 3D versions of 35mm blockbusters and original 3D content. We’ve come a long way from The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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| 05|24|2007 |
By Bryant Frazer
Interview with Glenn Kennel and Daryn Okada... »
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