To the delight of millions of younger fans, a closeup of the beautiful Kristen Stewart fills the screen in Eclipse, the latest entry in the Twilight series. To realize that image, behind-the-scenes on set in Canada, her makeup artist, the proficient Robin Mathews, had to carefully adjust Stewart’s natural complexion to play her... »
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Get Low Director’s First Feature Attracts All-star Cast and Crew
Get Low, a small-budget gem now in theaters, is directed by long-time cinematographer Aaron Schneider, his first time at the helm of a feature film. He had previously won an Oscar in 2004 for best short, Two Soldiers, which he directed. Schneider is... »
New Study: How To Fight The Production Flight From Hollywood
California needs to seriously amp up efforts to reverse the flight of film production from the state, according to a new report from the Milken Institute, an economic think tank located in Santa Monica. The study, “Film Flight: Lost Production and Its Economic Impact... »
Director Kory Martin Juul Creates White Tiger Legend Almost Single-Handedly
Literally a one-man army, acclaimed visual effects artist, director and producer, Kory Martin Juul relied extensively on the PhaseSpace motion capture system for production on his new animated martial... »
ILM Bends Fantasy into Reality in The Last Airbender
M. Night Shyamalan brings Nickelodeon's popular animated series, The Last Airbender, to the big screen in a live-action adventure created with the help of the visual effects, 3D matte... »
ARRI Ships first ALEXA Cameras
ARRI announced that the new ALEXA camera is now shipping. Initial delivery priority is being given to customers who purchased the D-21 camera when it was unveiled at IBC... »
Framestore Creates CG Rodent Rappers For Kia
Framestore recently spent three months creating 45 photoreal CG rodent rap stars for David & Goliath's new Kia Soul spot, "This or That." The spot was directed by Partizan's... »
Neil Marshall’s Epic Thriller Centurion Takes Editshare’s Lightworks into Battle
EditShare announced that award-winning editor Chris Gill utilized Lightworks to edit Neil Marshall's latest adrenaline-fused thriller, Centurion. Released in the United Kingdom in April 2010, and scheduled for a... »
Below-The-Line Trends: Hybrid Visual Effects Techniques – The Wolfman
As evidenced in films including The Wolfman which many viewers will first see on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def in its release on Tuesday June 1, the new modus operandi... »
NAB 2010
So let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first – you couldn’t get on the show floor at NAB this year without tripping over some teetering Rube... »
Ben Hur Rides Again with Oblique FX
Montreal-based Oblique FX recently completed all of the visual effects for Ben Hur – a new two-part miniseries that revisits the Charlton Heston classic tale of a man betrayed... »
Burton in Wonderland
It's not every film that's big enough to warrant three separate visual FX supervisors, but Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Disney's not-a-remake revisiting of material they last brought to... »

