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Colleen Atwood created her own patterns on the fabrics used in costumes for "Alice in Wonderland"
Photo courtesy of: Walt Disney Pictures
From a headless horseman to a mad hatter, from an angora-clad director to a uniformed ape, Colleen Atwood has sized them all up. The Oscar-winning costume designer ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Chicago") has been a frequent collaborator with director Tim Burton on movies ranging from period costumes ("Sleepy Hollow") to science fiction ("Planet of the Apes"). Her latest collaboration with Burton can be seen in the fantasy stylings of "Alice in Wonderland." MORE... |
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"It's one of those jobs for me where I prepared for this my whole life," said Moder. "It had the surfing and the climbing that I love to do, and the subject matter that I've just been so turned onto for so long. It was the perfect match to the life that I'm living."
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Digital Vision would like to change the way you work. With a twenty-two year history in the production industry, they are not the newest kid on the block. Companies ranging from Technicolor to CBS to the National Library of Congress have relied on their products to assist with their color correction needs. Their reach continues well beyond the US with clients in 44 countries world-wide and headquarters in Stockholm, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong.
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“Making a movie is kind of like vomiting,” said Cinematic Award Winner Warren Beatty. “You don’t know how long it’s going to take, and you don’t know exactly what the consequences will be, but you feel a whole lot better when you are done.”
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Prior to presenting Rob Reiner with the Golden Eddie Award, actor Christopher Guest reflected on working with the famed writer/producer/director/actor. “We’ve laughed together, we’ve cried together. Well, he cried mostly.” After a rousing standing ovation, Reiner declared he was honored to receive such a fine award. He paid special recognition to his long time editor and collaborator Robert Leighton. “I’ve spent more time with him in a dark room than with my wife,” joked Reiner.
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"Contemporary is so challenging, a lot of costume designers believe it’s the hardest, and I feel there’s a good argument to be made for that because we all have such sensitive eyes to the contemporary aesthetic, so if anything is wrong, if anything is inaccurate, we can tell immediately," said Danny Glicker ("Up in the Air")
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The highlights during the evening’s presentations came with each honorary recipient. Michael Negrin, ASC, presented his father, Sol Negrin, with the ASC Presidents Award. The younger Negrin remarked, “Unlike a lot of my friends’dads, my father always came home from work with a smile on his face.”
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“Avatar” won six VES awards including the evening’s top prize, “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture. Writer/Director/Editor James Cameron was on hand to not only support his visual effects team but also to receive the evening’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Cameron began his film career as a visual effects artist, studying under mentor Stan Winston. When Cameron approached Winston for advice on making “Avatar,” Winston told him not to hold back but to let the film be his visual calling card.
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Although "Avatar" has a limited amount of live action sequences, Mauro Fiore's Cinematography received the Oscar. Backstage, Fiore is asked about his perspective on being honored for a film that used so many different tools to craft the film's images.
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What has a file size of one perabyte, took over 1,825 days to create, consists of 2/3rd computer generated footage, and contains over 2,400 visual effects shots? James Cameron’s “Avatar.” During the recent Entertainment Technology Expo, a team of specialists who worked on “Avatar” spoke about the equipment and experience of working on the VFX heavy movie
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DAM technology is going to save your production one day.
DAM, or Digital Asset Management, refers to computerized storage and cataloguing systems. Creators of DAM technology are revolutionizing the way film production companies function and manage everything from marketing films to categorizing film libraries.
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Production Tech Tips: 411 Publishing offers short video primers that highlight the latest developments affecting the film, video, and online production communities. This month's videos inclue an interview with James Cameron and a group interview with members of the Avatar creative team. To view these, and all previous Prodcution Tech Tip videos, please visit: www.411publishing.com/TechTips/
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
10th Annual International Film and TV Summit
03/08 — 03/09
Luxe Hotel
Los Angeles, CA
www.citeusa.org/Calendar2010/Film/index.htm
Game Developers Conference
03/09 — 03/13
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA
www.gdconf.com/
Sundial Film Festival
03/10 — 03/13
Redding, CA
www.sundialfilmfestival.com
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Tektronix Video Content Clinic
03/10
New York, NY
www.jotform.com
Social Media for Business Professionals
03/10
FMC New York Office
New York, NY
www.fmctraining.com
Skidmore International Student Film Festival
03/26 — 03/28
Saratoga Springs , CA
www.skidmorefilmfestival.com
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Fade In Awards
03/31
Beverly Hills, CA
www.fadeinawards.com
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