Assisting in the Digital Age: Avatar’s Jason Gaudio
“Anything that doesn’t sound familiar is probably a new experience for an assistant, Avatar is that kind of project.” – Jason Gaudio […]
“Anything that doesn’t sound familiar is probably a new experience for an assistant, Avatar is that kind of project.” – Jason Gaudio […]
When London was readying The Pacific’s post-production workflow in 2007, he participated in two key decisions—to shoot the miniseries on film rather than acquiring it on emerging file-based systems, and to edit simultaneously with production in Australia, bringing along three editors. […]
As the on-set, or reference editor, Viertel feels like he’s doing a service for the picture editor, to make sure he has all the resources mapped out the way he would want them. […]
“By the time we were going to camera, we were already dealing with all the best performances… We had to come up with a whole new language of terms—combos, stitches, FPR, loads, etc.––all invented on this production.” -Stephen Rivkin […]
Just what does the end of the world sound like? That’s the question that faced supervising sound editors/sound designers Steven D. Williams, MPSE, and Eric Norris, MPSE, as they approached this daunting film. […]
“Our original idea for ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ originated five years ago, when we discussed the idea of an anthology series of the author’s short stories with diverse points of view” […]
Compositing is a critical part of the filmmaking process, the step where, after months of production, all the elements of a scene are assembled. It’s where visual effects-heavy shots come into their own, and filmmakers finally see their visions come to life. […]
One of the nice things about Adobe’s Creative Cloud is that when a major update is released, all it takes are a few simple clicks to upgrade everything. […]
Two decades ago, Steve Jobs famously took back his company. Part of the legend goes that when he came back to Apple Computers (now just Apple) he drew on a white board a grid of four quadrants. […]
by Joseph Herman Every year, right around SIGGRAPH (the annual pow-wow of all things computer graphics), MAXON unveils the latest […]
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