From L.A. Folk-Rock to Persian Pop, Let Us Sing the Praises of Guild Members at Sundance. By David Geffner. The Park City hills were alive with the sound of music this past January, and I don’t mean the Von Trapp...
Nominated for costume design Oscars for her work on Quills and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Jacqueline West came to her love of fashion from her earliest days in San Francisco, where she grew up with a mannequin in...
How IATSE Art Departments Build 3D Worlds. By Pauline Rogers. How does Local 800 member Michael Corenblith, currently working on the 3D summer release Dolphin Tale, describe the production designer’s craft? “We depict the visual contours of the screenplay and...
Circus ringleader Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, leads a talented Guild crew in visualizing the best-selling novel, Water for Elephants, for the big screen...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS DP Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC By Ted Elrick SOURCE CODE DP Don Burgess, ASC By Kevin H. Martin SUNDANCE 2011 By David Geffner INVISIBLE VFX By Kevin H. Martin TOWER OF BABEL? By Chris Wolski UNITY SERIES...
Suffering from edge mismatch or partial reverse stereo? Seeing indications of hyperconvergence or hyperdivergence? If so, you’ve experienced one or more of the 15 key issues – some taking place during shooting, others occurring in post – that can be...
Visual effects supervisor Greg McMurry’s career actually began some 30 years ago, trying to salvage an epic case of VFX mis-management on 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In the employ of effects maestro Douglas Trumbull, McMurry helped to devise...
The 48th Annual Publicists Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. By Pauline Rogers. Photos courtesy of Mathew Imaging. Despite the usual L.A. gridlock, made even more difficult because of this winter’s almost unending rain, The Beverly Hilton Hotel was...
French-born Michel Gondry started his career making music videos for his own band, Oui, Oui. When his work caught the eye of Finnish pop star Bjork, the pair’s collaboration jump-started the director’s unique and unparalleled efforts in the world of...
