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A Stop-Motion Pitch for Diet Dr. Pepper

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST

“You can wait your whole life,” says animation director Ken Lidster, “to get a script that has the opening line: ‘Open on a stop-motion animated world in which Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Sasquatch, a leprechaun, an alien, and a Diet Dr. Pepper deliveryman discuss the public’s inability to believe in them.’”...

Tapeless Workflows and Gigabit Ethernet at Crawford Communications

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST

“The challenge is that each client wants to feel special,” says Ron Heidt, a senior editor and HD specialist at Crawford Communications in Atlanta, GA. He’s talking not only about the range of projects that find their home at Crawford — commercials, corporate marketing, independent filmmaking, episodic television — but about the technological demands different clients make on a facility that handles telecine, graphics, 3D, creative editorial, online conform, audio and Blu-ray all in one place....

Making Glee Sing on Fox

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Glee has a split personality, says supervising sound editor John Benson, who spots the show at Technicolor Sound Services with co-supervising sound editor Gary Megregian and producer Alexis Martin. “The show is a constant contrast between the fantasy of the musical performances and the reality of a high-school drama,” he explains, emphasizing that the two never overlap. That makes the transitions from reality to fantasy and back as critical to the show’s audio as the music itself....

Amelia Flies With Subtle VFX

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Amelia is director Mira Nair's new biopic retelling the story of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific in an attempted around-the-world solo flight. Toronto's Mr. X delivered 277 shots that not only helped put Earhart — played here by Hillary Swank — in the air, but helped maintain the necessary illusion of a period piece....

Producer Emmanuel Benbihy on New York, I Love You

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Producer Emmanuel Benbihy's multi-installment Cities of Love project takes the concept of the anthology film on a globe-trotting journey....