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Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Tom Russo |
Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top battlegrounds. Film is dead. Long live the movies.   |
Popular Mechanics
January 2010
Anne Thompson |
How James Cameron's Innovative New 3D Tech Created Avatar Cameron wrote his first treatment for the movie in 1995 with the intention of pushing the boundaries of what was possible with cinematic digital effects. |
Popular Mechanics
March 7, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
The Making of Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan Typically, motion capture is the basis for the movement of CG characters, but that wouldn't work in this case. |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
VFX Artists Take on Angel Wings for Legion Creating realistic angel wings took a long time: There were as many as 70 versions of the wings in the early shots, and estimates are that animators worked on the wings up to 65 hours a week for nine months. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007 |
James Cameron on the Cutting Edge The director of Terminator and Titanic explains how movies will be transformed by motion-tracking and 3D technology. |
Popular Mechanics
March 27, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Monsters vs Aliens: Behind-the-Scenes Look at 3D Tech Creating an animated 3D film is a complex process, and directors are still using trial and error to find the true potential of the format, which is enjoying a resurgence thanks to improved digital technology. |
Wired
March 2006
Robert La Franco |
Trouble in Toontown Director Richard Linklater has a mind-blowing vision for his new Keanu Reeves movie, A Scanner Darkly. Making it a reality, however, is another story. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Eric Pavey |
Ready for their Close-ups Making all the right choices to create a computer-generated figure that looks truly alive is no easy task. It probably will take a Leonardo da Vinci, or a team of da Vincis-computer-graphics artists talented enough to put it all together. |
Wired
June 2004
Austin Bunn |
Welcome to Planet Pixar How the pixel-packing upstart became an animation superpower and left Disney in the dust. |
Macworld
March 2003
Sean Wagstaff |
Universe 5.0 Venerable 3-D animation software adds match moving, multiprocessor support to its galaxy of features |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
Glenn Zorpette |
Keya Banerjee: Magical Realism This specialist in reality-based movie effects is happiest when you don't notice her work. |
Outside
January 2006
Jason Stevenson |
Kong Speaks Interview with Andy Serkis, the actor who loaned his voice and body movements to computer-generated characters Gollum in Lord of the Rings and King Kong in Peter Jackson's latest movie. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2009
Glenn Kenny |
Finally, Bring Home the Hollywood Classics in HD With HD discs and downloads now widely available, Hollywood is finally tackling the job of turning film classics into digital masterpieces. |
Wired
June 2005
Robert La Franco |
The DreamWorks Machine Disney escapee Jeffrey Katzenberg knows the animation business. He also knows his toon factory can't compete with Pixar on quality. So he's making it up on volume. |
Wired
September 14, 2007
Steve Silberman |
Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum's Oscar Diss Andy Serkis, best known for his role as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, shares his views on digital acting, the future of motion-capture, and why Gollum didn't win an Oscar. |
Home Theater
May 2010 |
100 Best Blu-Ray Discs Whether you want the best picture and sound to show off your home theater system or to scare your neighbors, or you're looking for the best in extras and interactivity, here's the best of the best in Blu-ray. |
Wired
June 2002
Lawrence Weschler |
Why Is This Man Smiling? Digital animators are closing in on the complex system that makes a face come alive... |
Linux Journal
June 5, 2007
Robin Rowe |
DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre DreamWorks Animation pushes the limits of CG filmmaking with Linux. |
Linux Journal
August 2001
Robin Rowe |
DreamWorks Feature Linux and Animation The process and benefits of making animated movies with Linux... |
Salon.com
June 2, 2000
Gregg Kilday |
The toons that won't be "King" The most successful cartoon ever made is also the worst thing that could ever happen to animation. |
Wired
July 2005
Ted Greenwald |
Making of a remix: MTV2's Video Mods Electronic games and alternarock get thrown in the technological blender in Video Mods, MTV2's monthly digital-animation showcase. Here is how they make the videos. |
Fast Company
Nicole Laporte |
How "Frozen" Director Jennifer Lee Reinvented The Story Of The Snow Queen The fact that Jennifer Lee is a woman isn't the only thing that makes her one of the most unorthodox directors at Walt Disney Animation Studios. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Alan Deutschman |
Attack of the Baby Pixars Many people are trying digital animation - and trying to shoot the big studios' lights out. |
Wired
February 2001
Richard Baimbridge |
Unreal World Forget pixel-perfect computer animation. Waking Life, built with Flat Black Films' rotoscoping software and directed by Richard Linklater, turns reel life into the ultimate trip... |
Popular Mechanics
May 21, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Motion Capture Ready to Bring Next-Gen Avatars to Gaming, Movies, Medicine, the Military and More (With Video!) It's testament to the speed of digital imaging innovation that what was considered revolutionary just a few years ago is already being superseded by a new generation of motion-capture technologies. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Suhas Sreedhar |
Animation Nation, Part I: Dreamworks Goes to Bangalore Is the partnership between Paprikaas Interactive and Dreamworks a harbinger of things to come for the Indian animation industry? |
Salon.com
June 22, 2000
Michael Sragow |
Great escapists "Chicken Run" creators Nick Park and Peter Lord talk about animating with emotion, Mel Gibson's patriotic rooster and finding an idea with legs, er, drumsticks. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Bruce Einhorn |
Innovator: Jimmy Lai Seen the animated clips of Tiger Woods or the Jet Blue guy? Lai's quick-draw news operation made them -- and there's more where those came from |
Home Theater
March 2008
Kris Deering |
Arthur and the Minimoys--Europa (Blu-ray Import) The animation is excellent and the voice work is quite good but it didn't make up for other shortcomings. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2011
Elizabeth Moran |
How Smart is Viacom's New Venture? A fledgling animation division could help Paramount recruit a new generation of loyal moviegoers. |
Wired
May 2000
Jennifer Hillner & Jessie Scanlon |
Web Slingers In an open frontier beyond comics and 'toons, animators are drafting a low-bandwidth declaration of independence. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011
Ronald Grover |
Disney's Toy Branding Strategy Animated film shorts featuring Toy Story characters may spur merchandise sales. |
Popular Mechanics
February 19, 2010
Seth Porges |
The Tech Behind Four New Wonders at Disney World Live action animation and new rides are among the features at Disney World. |
Home Theater
May 2008
Kris Deering |
Bee Movie--Dreamworks Animation (Blu-ray) Although all of the comedy just wasn't really that funny, the animation in "Bee Movie" is still first-rate. |
Wired
May 2002
Jacob Ward |
Crime Seen Forensic science meets computer animation -- in the courtroom. Crime-scene reconstruction will never be the same... |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2010
Anders Bylund |
DreamWorks Animation Is On a Roll Something tells me the animation studio is into something good. |
Popular Mechanics
September 18, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' 3D Food FX (With Video!) One of the film's more ambitious set pieces was a giant food avalanche; the sequence was so complicated that it took about six months to complete. |
Home Theater
March 2008
Kris Deering |
Enchanted--Walt Disney Pictures (Blu-ray) "Enchanted" is everything it is advertised to be. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Eliza Strickland |
Dream Jobs 2012: Quick-Draw Animator Software creator Kevin Wang's tools turn news stories into viral videos |
Salon.com
November 20, 2001
Jeff Stark |
The stuff movies are made of Director Richard Linklater talks about dreams, Philip K. Dick, and his magical, revolutionary "Waking Life," a thinking person's cartoon about the meaning of life... |
Salon.com
June 15, 2000
Gregg Kilday |
Is Disney union-busting? Hollywood animators fear the Mouse House has a secret agenda -- destroying Cartoonists Local 839. |
