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Friday, Jul. 18, 2008
Visual Effects & Animation: Taking A "Journey" And Then Seeing The Light Atop The SHOOT Chart
Canon's "Journey," a spot which artfully puts an array of pictures into motion, and Liberty Mutual's Lighthouse , a web short that shows a community coming together to generate illumination that a disabled lighthouse can't provide, are SHOOT's Visual Effects & Animation Chart toppers for the...
Friday, Jul. 18, 2008
Visual Effects & Animation: Breakthrough CG, Artists Set To Hit The Animation Film Festival Circuit
The theme for SIGGRAPH 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Aug. 11-15 is "Evolve" and clearly one of the confab's perennial marquee attractions, the annual Computer Animation Festival, is evolving on several fronts. The showcase of noteworthy work is expanding into a full-scale film...
Friday, Jun. 20, 2008
Texas Production: The I's Have It
While the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program was signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry in September 2007, it wasn't until March of this year that the full rules for that measure were adopted. At press time, there were 120 total applications filed--primarily by production companies--for the...
Friday, Jun. 20, 2008
Cinematographers: Collaboration & Experimentation
Our DP mix this time around includes a veteran tabletop director/cameraman who's experimented extensively with the Phantom HD camera, a noted feature and commercials cinematographer whose experience entails working with lauded feature filmmaker Sam Mendes in both those disciplines, and a long-time...
Friday, Jun. 20, 2008
Agency Creative/Hispanic Advertising: A Site For Sore Eyes From CMPB
While the California Milk Processor Board's (CMPB) "got milk?" commercials out of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners , San Francisco, have attained deservedly high profile industry status over many years, the work being done on the Hispanic side for that same client only began gaining momentum in...
Friday, Jun. 20, 2008
Charles Day And Chris Tardio Return To The Industry
Charles Day and Chris Tardio--the husband-and-wife team who formed editorial house The Lookinglass Company, Chicago, in 1995 and then created a groundbreaking international editorial company via a merger in '01 with The Whitehouse , London, branching out with offices on both coasts--have returned...
Friday, Jun. 6, 2008
Artful Sweet 16 At 17th AICP Show
For the third consecutive year, bicoastal/international production house MJZ topped the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, this time scoring a grand total of 16 honors. Directors Nicolai Fuglsig and Rupert Sanders led the...
Friday, Jun. 6, 2008
Recycled Commercial Looks And Feels Good As New
Using old film clips of celebrities, everyday people, even animated characters--each uttering a word or two or at most three--ad agency Draftfcb , Toronto, cobbled together the following message for a World Wildlife Fund-Canada (WWF-Canada) PSA titled "Carbon Neutral": "To make the world's first...
Friday, Jun. 6, 2008
Cannes Lions Preview: Agency Creatives Chime In On Value Of The Festival, Now In Its 55th year
What happens in Cannes doesn't stay in Cannes. That's the assessment of Arnie DiGeorge who was recently promoted to group creative director at R&R Partners, overseeing the advertising agency's Las Vegas and Phoenix offices. DiGeorge was part of the original creative team that developed the pop...
Friday, Jun. 6, 2008
Production Companies Series: Discovering, Developing And Nurturing Filmmaking Talent
When recently asked by SHOOT about how the emergence of varied content forms has impacted the marketplace, Jonathan Shipman, head of production at McCann Erickson , New York, observed that while there's always a place for both seasoned and new directorial talent, a new breed of hybrid artisan has...

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