When You Wish Upon a ‘Star Wars’

November 8, 2012 by Michael Mallory No Comments

The big news in showbiz over for the last week has, of course, been the Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Lucasfilm for some four-billion-dollars and change. In many quarters the news was greeted with the same sort of stunned disbelief that would greet the announcement of a new afternoon talk [...]

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SIGGRAPH – The Quiet Revolution

August 7, 2011 by Ellen Wolff 1 Comment

A timely SIGGRAPH panel examines the pros and cons of distributed production. SIGGRAPH is always a showcase for whiz-bag images of digital destruction, virtual flames and flowing, photo-real hair. This year, a less obvious but profound development in modern image making is also receiving attention at a panel discussion entitled [...]

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