125 shots, six episodes, and a two-person team. VFX lead Tobias Kummer explained how Overmind Studios delivered geographic transformations, period cleanup, atmospherics, and a nuclear blast for A World Divided, built on disciplined templating and automation in Fusion.
Sometimes you just want a tablet that works without selling your workstation. That was the starting point for our test of Huion’s Kamvas 13 (Gen 3). In times where many artists keep an eye on their budgets, the idea of a small, solid, and affordable pen display is tempting. So we teamed up with Huion to see what this one could actually do.
Xencelabs launches the Pen Display 16 Lite, a 12 mm, 1.2 kg 4K OLED tablet with Super AG Etching and EMR pen support. The device targets mobile artists who need wide-gamut color accuracy on the go, with pricing starting at US$ 800 and the full Pen Display 16 Bundle listed at US$1250
Hardware is nothing without brains. Realtime Department’s UNIQVUE adds the software intelligence to ARRI and Samsung’s turnkey corporate studio. Christoph Gockel explains how.
ARRI introduces the ALEXA 35 Base Model, a lower-cost version of its flagship ALEXA 35. The new model offers the same sensor and image quality but trims the price tag by making advanced features available as separately licensed upgrades.
"What You Don't See" is a pioneering project that is one of the first to combine the oldest and one of the newest technologies in the film industry - 35mm film and LED volumes - in a scenic production.
It's almost 10 years since Austin Reza shot a film for Bentley's luxury cars: on an iPhone 5S. At the time, it was still in stylish black and white and with high contrasts - no doubt also to prevent artefacts from becoming too obvious. Back in 2011, Park Chan-wook and Park
Chan-kyong from South Korea even shot the fantasy horror "Night Fishing" on an iPhone 4 in colour and won a Golden Bear for the best short film. Apple itself, on the other hand, has generally shot its advertising films on cameras such as the Arri Alexa.
For many CG artists, discussions about colour spaces and colour pipelines are a tedious part of their work. However, the basic rule applies: only those who know and can use their digital colour palette will make the technically correct decisions in the creative process. For an accurate work process, it is therefore necessary to know the pipeline in order to produce controlled results.
With the GH4, Panasonic has created a truly successful model in the independent film and video sector. Aerial photographers in particular favoured the GH4 because of its form factor and low weight. Even the highest quality cinema and TV feature film productions as well as high-end commercials shot on the ground with RED or Arri were combined with aerial shots from the GH4. Here comes the successor.
In 2017, ARRI celebrates a birthday that very few ever experience: ARRI turns 100 this year! For the occasion, board members Jörg Pohlman and Franz Kraus look back and, in typical ARRI fashion, of course: forward.
This cute sight will certainly make the hearts of even non-hardcore camera fans beat faster: Arri has unveiled the Alexa Mini with a 4K sensor in Super 35mm format.
Arri will release update package 2.0 for the Amira in March, making 4K UHD recording possible. Update 3.0 is then intended to enable MPEG-2 MXF recording.
On January 16, the Bavarian Film Awards were presented in Munich for the 36th time. Arri had a hand in the postproduction of many of the award-winning projects.
Amazing: hardly anyone has actually been allowed to hold the new Amira camera in their hands yet – including us – and the first update is already appearing.
Review: DP 03 : 2013 took a closer look at the film adaptation of the young adult novel Ruby Red. We spoke to Professor Jürgen Schopper, Supervisor Mortimer Warlimont and VFX Producer Katja Müller about particle effects, the filmability of Spiegel bestsellers and the magic of VFX shots.
Specifically in the production and marketing of joint animation projects. The first joint project, “Ploe”, is an adventure for the whole family about a young golden plover.
The winners of the "Scientific and Technical Achievements Awards" are decided each year before the official Oscar ceremony. This year, two of the awards are going to ARRI, among others.
Now the time has come: Canon's new camera, the C300, is officially scheduled to ship at the end of January. Is Canon taking advantage of the favorable timing of the dispute between ARRI and RED?
Let´s get ready to rumble…the dispute between RED and ARRI, which had already begun in December over an accusation of industrial espionage, appears to be expanding and is currently continuing in court.
Filmmaker Gunleik Groven compares the Alexa and RED1 MX. Anyone who is undecided, or simply enjoys comparing beautiful devices, is advised to follow this link.
"Bal", a co-production between Turkish Kaplan Film Yapim and German Heimatfilm GmbH + Co KG (responsible co-producers: Johannes Rexin and Bettina Brokemper), was shot in Turkey on 35mm four-perforation from July to September 2009 with funding from Filmstiftung NRW and Eurimages (cinematography: Baris Özbicer).
On February 20, 2010, the ARRISCAN digital film scanner from long-established Munich company Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (ARRI) will receive an Academy Award (Oscar) in the Scientific & Technical category.
Media logistics company IMD Independent Media Distribution plc and ARRI Film & TV Services GmbH are intensifying their cooperation on the tapeless delivery of broadcast masters.
Quantel recently demonstrated for the first time a DI workflow using data from the new Mscope digital recording format for anamorphic lenses, developed by ARRI for the new D21 digital camera. Mscope is a digital image-recording method capable of processing anamorphically captured image signals in the Cinemascope format. Quantel presented this latest innovation in a beta version in Amsterdam to gather feedback from potential users on site.
Bavarian Media Minister Eberhard Sinner will visit the Cinec film-technology trade fair at Munich’s M,O,C on Monday, 22 September 2008, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
The extensive presentation of Bavaria as a film location at the 32nd Festival des Films du Monde in Montréal has concluded. Bavarian filmmakers presented their films to packed cinemas.
Marco Kreuzpaintner (SUMMER STORM) directed his first US feature film with TRADE as a co-production with Roland Emmerich’s Centropolis and Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Film Production.