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 Profile of an Artist, Shuichi Nakahara
Shuichi
Nakahara is a multi-talented, multi-tasking creative artist with a love
for animation. Shuichi is a highly educated Japanese engineer and
computer animation guru. He started his career in Japan and has been
working with companies in the U.S. through a virtual pipeline through
the internet. What is interesting about Shuichi is his rare .... Full Story
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 Virtual Set Productions Are Reality
Hollywood is an old-fashioned town in some aspects. Once I saw an ad
for a digital editing software enticing would-be users to edit like
“Spielberg,” without realizing that Steven Spielberg never used a
digital editor in his life. In “Catch Me If You Can,” most of the
colorization is created by placing colored pieces of .... Full Story
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 World Cinema, Harutyun Khachatryan, One of the foremost filmmakers Armenia
Harutyun Khachatryan was born in Georgia in 1955 where he completed his film studies. He worked as director and directing assistant and is now head of the documentary department of the Hayfilm/Armenfilm Studios. Previous films include Voices from our Neighbourhood (1981, short), Chronicles of an Event (1985, short), A Visit With the Commander .... Full Story
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 Lagan Sebert, a good friend of the press
I met Lagan Sebert, a young publicist, at AFI FEST 2006. Lagan did such a great job helping journalist that we decided to introduce him to our readers. CWB: Please tell us about your AFI FEST experience and how you felt working with the media? Lagan: AFI Fest 2006 presented by Audi was a great experience for me. It is a very international festival .... Full Story
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 Cinema in Georgia
An interview with David Abdaladze. Chairman of “Kino Plus”. The Georgian film producer’s center<br> David Abdaladze finished his studies in film production at Moscow state institute of cinematography in 1989 and a year later he founded Georgian-British film-centre “Moon globe”. He was the first person to .... Full Story
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 Those Flying Controllers!
As Christmas looms over the horizon, gamers and technology aficionados alike flock to their nearest electronic store to pick up their Next-Gen systems. But personally I would like to present a word of warning as far as these new consoles are concerned. No, this is not another ‘exploding 360s’ article, though the context is rather .... Full Story
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 Thus spake Zartosht Soltani
NY-based Animator and Art Director <br>In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from Fine Arts at Azad University of Arts at Tehran. One year later he moved to New York where he is now working as art director and illustrator for an animation studio called FlickerLab. There he works on different projects such as cartoons, TV commercials and .... Full Story
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 Canvas-Falcons live at the Orpheum
Fifteen years ago a young theatre arts student rifting through a compilation of WWI flyboy vignettes recognized a voice, that of his father, a Vietnam veteran, coming through the words. Inspired by this resonance, Troy Gleeson wrote a one act play, Canvas Falcons, which he produced once, then began to develop into a classic two act story. It was .... Full Story
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 iPod, Prius and 3D social networks
Let me say it upfront: I do not own an iPod. I bought one for Christmas two years ago for my son who was very happy with it, till one day its hard drive died, together with about 3,000 songs he spent weeks and weeks bringing into the iPod from his large collection of CD’s. This does not mean I do not listen to music, for $10 a month I have .... Full Story
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 An Alternative (RGBW) Sub-Pixel Technology
If you were to ask most people how television screens and computer displays work, at some stage they would probably mention that each pixel (picture element) is formed from red, green, and blue (RGB) sub-pixels. For example, the red, green, and blue sub-pixels forming a pixel on a liquid crystal display (LCD) are rectangular. Combined, these three .... Full Story
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 Spider-Man 3
The IMAX Experience is going to gear up to some serious action when the third installment of the Spider Man series hits theaters May 4th 2007. The original cast consisting of Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons will be present with newcomers Topher Grace (In Good Company) as Edward "Eddie" Brock Junior who .... Full Story
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 History of IMAX, IMAX 3D part one
We are Born of Stars 1985<br> WE ARE BORN OF STARS is the first Anaglyph single projector 3D film created for IMAX/IMAX Dome projection. The film follows the 5-billion year evolution and development of life from the formation of the smallest atomic nuclei in the stars to the now complex structure of water and DNA. Imagine 1988<br> .... Full Story
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 The Old Man and the Big Screen
"Last week I was in Hyderabad filming a documentary about this beautiful ancient city. As I was passing the IMAX Theater I remembered that Digital Journal Online was planning to run an IMAX WEEK on their site. So, out of curiosity I decided to check to see what type of people go to see an IMAX movie here in India instead of going to see a popular .... Full Story
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 GREG FOSTER, IMAX Corporation Chairman and President speaks about Open Season IMAX 3D
Greg Foster, Chairman and President of Filmed Entertainment, joined IMAX Corporation in March, 2001. Based at IMAX's Santa Monica office, Foster’s primary responsibility is overseeing all aspects of the company's global filmed entertainment activities, including creative, production, film distribution, business affairs, marketing, .... Full Story
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 Superman Returns
This is it, the Summer Blockbuster of Summer Blockbusters, the one we’ve been waiting for is here in IMAX 3D, and trust me on this, a lesser format will not do! To quote my notes: ‘Superman Returns: An IMAX 3D Experience will be the world’s first live action feature to have selected segments converted from 2D into .... Full Story
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 Roving Mars
Opening in Los Angeles on August 18 by Walt Disney Pictures. If, through some great technological breakthrough actual images documenting the discovery of America were made available, would you want to see them? Inundated as we are daily by pictures from the mundane to the magnificent, is it possible that an even greater unprecedented .... Full Story
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 Poseidon, The Movie
Directed and Produced by Wolfgang Petersen, who posed the fascinating questions: “What would you do if the whole world turned upside down?” “Would you be a courageous leader or a follower? Would you panic? Would you give up or keep on going?” With a fine cast and some excellent technical support to explore the extent and .... Full Story
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 The SIGGRAPH 2006 Electronic Theater visits Los Angeles
Southern California graphics professionals and aficionados alike have been fortunate that five of the past eight SIGGRAPH conferences have been held in either Los Angeles or San Diego. But this year the show moved to Boston, and for many of us our work or personal schedules didn’t allow for the trip. Fortunately, a little bit of the .... Full Story
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 Sony's Blu-Ray vs. Microsoft's HD DVD
In the never-ending battle for dominance, Sony and Microsoft’s next bout might not be decided by just its games. In this new era of video game wars, the main focus might be about which console can push the next preferred generation optical standard. Over recent years, Sony and Toshiba have been cooking up a new optical standard to go along .... Full Story
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 Who Wins the Console War?
So, it’s been roughly 5 years since the last wave of consoles touched down on the shores of Gamemeria, and buzz about the new ones on the way has been quite loud. The Xbox 360 has already hit our shores, and is doing quite well for a console that has no real competition yet. Sure, it’s had its share of problems, but it’s doing .... Full Story
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 Profile of an Artist, Julia Briemle from Germany
“From drawing Rabbits to Film storyboarding” 19 years old, Julia Briemle, German Comic artist tells about her passion for drawing... “The first thing I was "good" in was drawing rabbits! I drew them everywhere, on every material that I got under my eyes. Later on I tried to make portraits of my relatives, which they loved very .... Full Story
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 Web Video 2006: How Three Letters Changed Everything
Back in the mid 1990’s, when the new media industry was transitioning from the CD-ROM era to the new Internet frontier, a much-ballyhooed term was “convergence”. In a nutshell, convergence was thought of as a near-mystical event whereby all major media platforms – television, radio, print, online, et al, would come together .... Full Story
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 A Gamer notes, Playing World of Warcraft
Where I go to school, we have a very nice computer lab. Every time I go in, I can’t help but notice that there’s always at least one person playing World of Warcraft. Sometimes I end up chatting with them about the game, having played it myself for over a year and a half. Every time, I mention that I’ve quit the game three months .... Full Story
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 Some surprising facts about color vision
Most folks who are working with any form of graphics – including computer-generated graphics – are quietly confident that they know how color vision works. Strange to relate, however, it turns out that much of what we were taught at school is incorrect! Recently, I was writing a paper on the Origin and Evolution of Computer Displays .... Full Story
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 New York Notes
Da Vinci Code I sat in a theatre with approximately twenty t-shirt clad movie patrons who anxiously awaited for the film to begin. As people were masticating on butter drenched popcorn and the like, my mind whisked me away in sheer anticipation of Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s controversial best selling book, The Da Vinci .... Full Story
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 Machinima Gets a Day Job!
We’ve all thought about it. Sitting in a dark theater watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster, how many times have we been completely caught up in the onscreen action, only to be brought back to reality by an ill-conceived scene or confusing turn of events. I mean, what was the director thinking? We would have known better than to put that .... Full Story
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 Do-It-Yourself Independent Financing - One
Probably the most invigorating aspect of the “new technology” in animation and filmmaking is the advent of localized software applications which really make it possible for an individual or small group of artists to “make a film.” Young artists today are probably a little jaded about the availability of this production .... Full Story
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 This is a hell of an industry!
This is a hell of an industry, any which way you look at it. Diversity can’t even come close to describing the people, the ideas, and the work that happens in digital effects and animation, whether for film or TV. There is a high paced flow to it, and an always-changing demand for good people who are able and dependable. So when someone .... Full Story
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 Hollywood Notes
What is a Frame Thrower?When you first hear the word Frame Thrower? Your imagination can conger up images of unhappy Film Editors cutting up frames of movies and throwing them up in the air in a frenzy. A fantasy every film editor has entertained at some point on certain productions. The real identity of a Frame Thrower is something much more .... Full Story
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 The future of 3D
The future of 3D is all about ease of use and real-time performance and results. Technology has now advanced to the point where we can achieve almost any effect with today’s mid-range applications. Additionally, regardless of the long term ramifications to the industry, price points have dropped so low that this is no longer a barrier to .... Full Story
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Borat & Panasonic’s AJ-HDC27 VariCam HD
