Houdini CG software is giving products like Maya a run for its money. Here is their latest showreel featuring a mix of content and some Vox Pops from delighted customers
A trailer for a movie called 'Illegal' which used the Redrock Micro Cinema Lens adapter in between a Panasonic HVX200 HD camera and a 35mm Nikon lens. Shot by Kenneth Yeung, directed by Andrew Oh
This new storage technology uses non-spinning discs to store up to 300GB per disc. Non-spinning media means a future in consumer media for mobile devices as it won't draw as much power as drives or discs. At the moment marketing to the content owners
Anthony Hopkins stars in an anti-whaling TV ad campaign for Greenpeace, shot in 4K using DALSA Origin cameras and recorded to Codex Digital recorders.
The 60-second spot has been aired on network TV across America and features the Oscar-winning actor reading excerpts from Psalm 104 and the haunting poem Whales Weep Not! by D.H. Lawrence.
A five minute glimpse of the recent DVD made by Arri, Kodak and Technicolor featuring various cinematographers talking about their art. Worth hunting down the DVD for!
CineGrid was a pan-world 4K media transfer organisation formed in 2005. Formed to allow digital cinema images to be shared via fast optical fibre networks
At the recent Band Pro One World event in Burbank California Sony confirmed all the rumours with the official announcement of a new digital camera with a 35mm sized sensor.
As part of the New York Film Festival 2007 veteran director Sidney Lumet offers up his view of the HD revolution by explaining the inefficiencies of film against digital HD. Apologies for the bad camera work but worth a listen at least
Bad Day was shot on the Panasonic HVX200 camera using non-tape media. The shoot was over just two weeks with finishing at M2 in Soho. Full story in High Definition Magazine's next issue