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VFX VoiceVFXBRINGING REALISM TO THE POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD OF THE DOG STARS Initially intimidated by the prospect of working with the visionary filmmaker behind Alien and Blade Runner , Visual Effects Supervisor Charley Henley has since earned the trust of Ridley Scott and…

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VFX VoiceVFXILM BRINGS DINOSAURS TO SUBURBIA FOR THE END OF OAK STREET This article contains mild spoilers for The End of Oak Street. Various paint-overs for a Baryonyx. Rather than bring prehistoric creatures into the present day through the power of DNA, filmmaker…

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VFX VoiceVFXBLIND BEAGLE VFX GOES UNDERWATER WITH MINIATURES AND MOTION CONTROL FOR THE WRONG GIRLS Images courtesy of Blind Beagle VFX and NEON In NEON’s The Wrong Girls , down-on-their-luck best friends Frankie (Kristen Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat) are struggling to make rent when a case of…

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VFX VoiceVFXTHE NEXT GENERATION SPEAKS: WHAT YOUNG VFX ARTISTS ARE DOING DIFFERENTLY ILM is one of the primary VFX providers on Supergirl , sharing the action with Digital Domain and Framestore. (Image courtesy of Warner Bros.

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VFX VoiceVFXTHE JOURNEY FROM VENDOR TO CREATIVE PARTNER A heartfelt mother-daughter moment is brought to life by Zoic Studios for The Miniature Wife . (Image courtesy of Peacock) As CGI permeates film and television productions, opportunities have…

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VFX VoiceVFXCHARTING A NEW COURSE FOR THE ODYSSEY Images courtesy of Universal Pictures. The eye of the cyclops was a real one rotoscoped, composited and timed perfectly with the action.

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VFX VoiceVFXALISSAR KOBEISSI BELIEVES IN THE POWER OF STORYTELLING THROUGH ANIMATION Alissar Kobeissi, Senior Animator, Sony Pictures Imageworks. Although animation is not typically the first medium mentioned in relation to the Middle East, Oscar-nominated films such as Persepolis…

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VFX VoiceVFXACCOUNTING FOR THE NEW ECONOMICS OF VFX For Digital Domain, it’s about more than chasing the highest rebate; it’s aligning their global footprint with high-yield regions and tapping into top-tier talent in those locations.

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VFX VoiceVFXTALKING SHOP WITH MODEL ARTISAN JOHN GOODSON John Goodson, Digital Artist, ILM One of the most heartbreaking scenes in the Disney+ documentary series Light & Magic, which explores the history of Industrial Light & Magic, details the closure of…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo