At London's 3D Creative Summit, Life of Pi director Ang Lee offered some surprising advice to those just starting out shooting in 3D. He said, "Don't trust anybody. Don't let anybody tell you what 3D is, including me. The stenographers on these movies should be the filmmakers. The best way to learn is to jump in, like swimming,...
Filmmaker Magazine talks to VFX artist Ryan Bozajian who also took on the role of pre-grading Roman Coppola's latest film, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, using DaVinci Resolve.
Explains Bozajian, "Since I had a background in color grading, I started thinking of different ways I could cut costs using my skill sets. Some of...
Watch a two-minute version of artist A dandypunk's live performance art piece "The Alchemy of Light," which combines dance with projection mapping and animation.
RedShark News calls the video "a tightly-constructed work that flourishes in the spaces between art and technology, live and video, performance and animation. It speaks...
The Digital Cinema Society is hosting an Internet Silent Auction to coincide with NAB. Products and services up for bidding include:
- 1-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud
- AJA Io XT for Thunderbolt
- Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve
- Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Recorder
- Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Monitor
- Chrosziel...
3D CineCast reviews transcoding tool 5DtoRGB, writing, "5DtoRGB is an awesome tool that extracts every last drop of video quality from cameras that record to the AVC/H.264 video format. Cameras like the Canon EOS series of HDSLRs record video in this format with subsampled color.
Because of this compression, the picture is at risk of...
American Zoetrope and SPY used DaVinci Resolve Lite and DaVinci Resolve, respectively, for color grading on Roman Coppola’s latest film, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III.
DP Matthew Woolf turned to ARRI Alexa along with ARRI Zeiss Ultra Prime lenses to shoot two new spots for Soul Headphones starring Tim Tebow and Ludacris.
Explains Woolf, "The look of each spot was to try and fit the ethos of the campaign – 'Soul of Greatness.' The directive was to show these super personalities when they are...
Watch this behind-the-scenes featurette from upcoming blockbuster Oblivion in which director Joseph Kosinski and star Tom Cruise explain the premise of their sci-fi film.
