http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/burton-in-wonderland/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/burton-in-wonderland/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:06:29 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10552 Alice in Wonderland, Disney's not-a-remake revisiting of material they last brought to screen in 50's-era animation, apparently nibbled the cake that said "Eat Me," and became that big.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/burton-in-wonderland/feed/ 1 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/men-who-stare-at-monitors-thomas-j-smith-on-rendering-fx-for-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/men-who-stare-at-monitors-thomas-j-smith-on-rendering-fx-for-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:05:08 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6810 Thomas J. Smith has overseen digital effects on pictures where you know you’ll be watching a lot of digital sleight-of-hand, like The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and The Chronicles of Riddick, and also films you wouldn’t immediately expect to be FX heavy, like all three Ocean’s films with George Clooney. He found himself in that role again with Clooney, with a film set in other deserts besides downtown Vegas, namely “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/men-who-stare-at-monitors-thomas-j-smith-on-rendering-fx-for-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/tv-everywhere%e2%80%94unions-not-so-much/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/tv-everywhere%e2%80%94unions-not-so-much/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:00:02 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6780 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/tv-everywhere%e2%80%94unions-not-so-much/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/contender-%e2%80%93-production-designer-%e2%80%93-jess-gonchor-a-serious-man/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/contender-%e2%80%93-production-designer-%e2%80%93-jess-gonchor-a-serious-man/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:00:10 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6816 Jess Gonchor, and he’s had some good ones to start with, including the one for No Country For Old Men, which netted him an Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design. Its follow up, Burn After Reading, gained him a nomination in the same category, and the fact that both of those scripts— and the one that currently makes him one of this year’s contenders—were written by the Coen Brothers, is no coincidence.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/contender-%e2%80%93-production-designer-%e2%80%93-jess-gonchor-a-serious-man/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/the-long-slow-process-of-bringing-coraline-to-the-screen/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/the-long-slow-process-of-bringing-coraline-to-the-screen/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=553 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/the-long-slow-process-of-bringing-coraline-to-the-screen/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/union-roundup-2/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/union-roundup-2/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:08:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=551 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/union-roundup-2/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/apocalypse-almost-now-volker-engel-and-marc-weigert-on-world%e2%80%99s-end-fx-in-2012/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/apocalypse-almost-now-volker-engel-and-marc-weigert-on-world%e2%80%99s-end-fx-in-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:06:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=549 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/apocalypse-almost-now-volker-engel-and-marc-weigert-on-world%e2%80%99s-end-fx-in-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/gorillas-or-guerillas-the-year-in-fx/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/gorillas-or-guerillas-the-year-in-fx/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:04:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=547 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/gorillas-or-guerillas-the-year-in-fx/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/assessing-the-year-in-shape-language/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/assessing-the-year-in-shape-language/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:54:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=542 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/assessing-the-year-in-shape-language/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/paul-schraeder-the-walker/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/paul-schraeder-the-walker/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:51:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=426 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/paul-schraeder-the-walker/feed/ 0