Presented by the Made in NY Media Center by IFP gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York City, “Crap: A Beeple Retrospective” takes place February 1 – 28, 2018; artist reception February 1 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The reception is free, but please register here if you’d like to attend. The Made in NY Media Center is excited […]
GoldenLane Studio Turns To iPi Motion Capture For “Five Nights At Freddy’s” YouTube Series
MOSCOW, RUSSIA – What began as an indie mobile game in 2014, Five Nights At Freddy’s has grown into a multimedia franchise with multiple games, novel adaptations and even a feature film in the works. There is also an array of fan-inspired videos – none more popular than those produced by the Kiev, Ukraine-based GoldenLane Studio. Led by […]
New Film Office Working On More Productions In Upstate New York
Image Caption: The Greater Syracuse Film Office launch party at the CNY Film Hub. TOM MAGNARELLI / WRVO NEWS Reported By Tom Magnarelli, WRVO Syracuse The $15 million taxpayer-funded Central New York Film Hub in DeWitt has gotten criticism for not being utilized enough by production companies over the years. But a new virtual CNY film […]
YouTube Facility Helps Foster Creative Community In NYC
Image caption: The reception area of YouTube NYC. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Who hasn’t seen a YouTube video? From amateur to advanced, more than one billion hours are watched every day and 300 hours are uploaded every minute. CBS2’s Ali Bauman had a chance to pull back the curtain and take a look inside where […]
Alchemy Post Sound Pulls Out all the Stops for EPIX Spy Thriller “Berlin Station”
Image caption: Alchemy Post founder Leslie Bloome in one of facility’s Foley stages. Now in its second season on EPIX, the tense cloak and dagger drama Berlin Station centers on undercover agents, diplomats and whistleblowers inhabiting a shadow world inside the German capital. It’s hard to tell who’s working for or against whom in this nothing-as-it-seems tale […]
Up 300-Percent in Film Spend, Hudson Valley Film Commish Rejto Spots 2017 as Turning Point
In the above photo: Producer Jen Gatien, Whoopi Goldberg, Melissa Leo, Laurent Rejto, and Tessa Thompson on the set of the film ‘Furlough’. (Photo Credit: Randy Harris) Spending funds from the New York State coffers to boost film production in Gotham has worked well for almost 15 years. To the consternation of some fiscal conservatives, it […]
Is Kodak’s New Super 8 Camera Worth $2500?
Would you pay $2500 for a Super 8 camera? An odd question to ask now, as the glory days of Super 8 format are long gone. But some still pine for what the format can deliver visually, while long-term relevance is still film’s strong card. But how feasible is shooting in a format that still […]
Real Time Animation: Review of Reallusion’s iClone 7
As GPUs, from companies such as NVIDIA and AMD, have gotten ever more powerful over the past few years, they have become able to deliver real-time 3D performance in ways that we once dreamed about. This is true especially in games, where realistic 3D scenes are interactively rendered in real-time during gameplay. Now convincing real […]
Adobe Reveals Great New Video Chops at IBC 2017
Adobe unveiled a tasty bundle of updates to its Creative Cloud video applications at IBC 2017. The Amsterdam-based show doesn’t garner the same slew of new product intros that NAB does. But many companies big and small save their latest-and-greatest announcements for this Fall show for that very reason of a lowered PR frenzy. Adobe […]
Review of the HP DreamColor Z24x G2 Display: Color accurate and Affordable
Recently, HP introduced two new DreamColor displays, the Z31x which will be available for purchase later this year, and the Z24x G2 which is the subject of this review (and is available today). If you are interested in learning more about the upcoming Z31x, an advanced, 4K, high-end, feature-rich display which has a built in […]