Stranger Things VFX Supervisor on Making Monster Mayhem
...directors to go into a VFX facility and direct an animator, because they’re tweaking each petal hand by hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PzDQcQ4DbA The demogorgon goes from being sort of in the background, creeping around...
Check out The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2's Virtual Reality Experience
...globe.” Times subscribers can download the app, or, they can use the Google Cardboard virtual reality viewer.” The point, virtual reality is becoming a reality across our media landscape, and when the...
Sonic Soul: Talking to Manchester by the Sea’s Sound Designer
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxV9EtaEODY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJL_62t6hbc Lonergan's committment to keeping things focused on the reality of these characters meant eschewing techniques he and Ribicoff had put to such fantastic effect in Margaret. In that film, the everday...
A Q&A With Greig Fraser, Cinematographer on Zero Dark Thirty
...Osama Bin Laden. One of the most talked about scenes of the year (arguably, of the new decade) is the spectacular, harrowing final raid on Bin Laden’s compound, all shot using night...
Here's How They Built the Beastly Machines for Mad Max: Fury Road
...discuss how everyone's work combined – set decoration, mechanics, steel, and SFX. If I wasn't at the computer drawing, I was in the workshop seeing the vehicles take shape, being test-driven, and...
"The Matrix Resurrections" Co-Writer David Mitchell On Conjuring a Meta Mind-Blower With Lana Wachowski
...underscore in Resurrections? I’ve typed and deleted longer answers to this because my reply kept looking like a checklist that we didn’t really compile. Twenty-first-century tech got into the script because it...
"Story Ave" Writer/Director Aristotle Torres Brings the Bronx to the Big Screen
...really welcoming of us, we made sure catering was done from local restaurants, and we tried to get as many background actors from the community as possible. They embraced us, and we...
“The Fall Guy” Fight Coordinator Jonathan Eusebio on That Insane Spinning Garbage Truck Chase
...lot of PreViz through Real Engine to see what it would look like if someone’s really swinging underneath a flying aircraft. Then, we combined the real footage we shot and Micah’s PreViz...
Test Your Emmys Trivia Knowledge
...still hungry for more Emmy factoids, check out our latest infographic: The Emmy Awards, By The Numbers. [wpsqt name="Test Your Emmys Trivia Knowledge" type="quiz"] **Image credit: Emmy Primetime Awards c/o Picture Group...
This new First Man Trailer Passes the Goosebump Test
...First Man passes the goosebump test and gives us (shockingly) the first proper biopic about the legendary Armstrong’s very personal, inevitably historic journey. Chazelle and Gosling are creating quite the collaboration, having...