SIGGRAPH 2023 will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from August 6th to August 10th, with the opportunity to watch much of the conference live-streamed. With many of the scheduling specifics now available, here are a few highlights of the upcoming 2023 SIGGRAPH Conference.
One of the expressive avenues currently open to artists on a slowdown caused by the WGA strike is the 2023 Unreal Fellowship in animation.
The movie industry has come a long way and is still working its way forward in environmental sustainability in film production. Here’s a look at where things are at in the industry-wide push toward green production methods, and where things are going.
We enter the back alleys and hotel lobbies of New York City to explore why the John Wick cinematography is so endearing, and the techniques that helped achieve an atmosphere that stacks color the same way John Wick stacks bodies.
Louisiana composer Andrew Morgan Smith was tasked with crafting a score that could anchor Nicolas Cage’s role in a good old-fashioned Montana revenge adventure ‘The Old Way’.
Zack Kutcher of SpectrumFX, Special Effects Coordinator of Deep Water (starring Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck), talks about all the practical special effects for this Hulu Original Film.
John Kellar, Noel Savoy, and Kevin Conlon sat down (or laid in bed) to reflect on ‘Shapes’, a short horror film about a shapeshifting entity that has a habit of preying on the flesh of its roommates.
When you cut through the external buzz of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, what you have is an adventure mystery built on the foundation of an atmosphere. The marsh – the buzz of cicadas and the sun that drips down through the cypress trees – it’s a living piece of this story. The effects and the composition are paramount.
We talked to editor Alan E. Bell and VFX Supervisor Kolby Kember of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ about how they helped build the atmosphere of Crawdads with their editing and visual effects expertise.
Andrew Morgan Smith is one of those creators fusing music with narrative to evoke a specific emotion. He is a multi-faceted musician, a composer with almost 100 film credits, and one might say most importantly – a contributor to the world that once inspired him.
He gave us his time to talk about his path to scoring movies and the nuances behind the ideas, performances, and convergence of sounds that are melded together to create a complete film score.
Ethan Hawke, the now “Moon Knight” actor, went viral on social networks due to an opinion he made in a 2018 video about superhero movies.
Strapped is a new short thriller film by Pierre St Jean jr. This one-take taut dramatic film was released in June and is available for viewing on Youtube.
Josh Carrasquillo, the executive producer at Taproot, exercised his technical and creative physique with the new Chevy Silverado “Silverado Presents” campaign, a three-part campaign shot in six days across three geographically unique landscapes.
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