Industry vets Dominic Glynn, Rob Legato, Nancy Richardson, Deborah Scott, Tom Sito and Sharon Smith Holley have accepted invitations to join the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Visual effects supervisor and VFX branch member Legato won Oscars for Titanic, Hugo and The Jungle Book. His VFX credits also include Apollo 13, The Aviator and Jon Favreau’s The Lion King. He most recently served as VFX supervisor and second unit director on Emancipation.
Costume designers branch member Scott also won an Oscar for her work on Titanic and her additional costume design credits include E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Heat, The Patriot, Minority Report and Avatar: The Way of Water. She was the Costume Designers Guild’s 2023 Career Achievement Award recipient.
Pixar senior scientist Glynn’s work as an imaging and audio specialist helped to launch the world’s first...
Visual effects supervisor and VFX branch member Legato won Oscars for Titanic, Hugo and The Jungle Book. His VFX credits also include Apollo 13, The Aviator and Jon Favreau’s The Lion King. He most recently served as VFX supervisor and second unit director on Emancipation.
Costume designers branch member Scott also won an Oscar for her work on Titanic and her additional costume design credits include E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Heat, The Patriot, Minority Report and Avatar: The Way of Water. She was the Costume Designers Guild’s 2023 Career Achievement Award recipient.
Pixar senior scientist Glynn’s work as an imaging and audio specialist helped to launch the world’s first...
- 11/28/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The evolution of the metaverse, virtual reality and TV technology are just a few of the buzziest trends that will be on display at the 2023 CES Show, which gets underway Jan. 5 in Las Vegas. Organizers are hoping to reach 100,000 attendees, which is far below pre-covid levels (the org reported 171,000 at its January 2020 show) but nevertheless would be a strong showing for a pandemic-era trade event.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, tech leaders at major studios outlined promising developments — like one day seeing Avatar: The Way of Water at home in a format as it’s shown in theaters or having easier access to Filmmaker Mode on your TV to preserve the director’s intent and remove the “reality TV”-like quality of high-def viewing — as well as incoming challenges (i.e., how the masses the embrace the metaverse) in 2023.
8K Tvs Power Up, But Lack Content
It’s been an...
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, tech leaders at major studios outlined promising developments — like one day seeing Avatar: The Way of Water at home in a format as it’s shown in theaters or having easier access to Filmmaker Mode on your TV to preserve the director’s intent and remove the “reality TV”-like quality of high-def viewing — as well as incoming challenges (i.e., how the masses the embrace the metaverse) in 2023.
8K Tvs Power Up, But Lack Content
It’s been an...
- 1/4/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Four new members have joined the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy said Wednesday.
They include cinematographer and cinematography branch governor Paul Cameron, whose credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Collateral and Man on Fire; production designer Tom Duffield, a governor in the production design branch whose credits include Patriots Day, Hell or High Water and Ed Wood; and short films and feature animation branch governor Marlon West, who is head of effects animation and a VFX supervisor at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios. His credits include Encanto, Frozen and Hercules.
The council is also welcoming back former co-chair Paul Debevec, a computer graphics and virtual production innovator and VFX branch governor who serves as a director of research for product innovation at Netflix and is an adjunct research...
Four new members have joined the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy said Wednesday.
They include cinematographer and cinematography branch governor Paul Cameron, whose credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Collateral and Man on Fire; production designer Tom Duffield, a governor in the production design branch whose credits include Patriots Day, Hell or High Water and Ed Wood; and short films and feature animation branch governor Marlon West, who is head of effects animation and a VFX supervisor at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios. His credits include Encanto, Frozen and Hercules.
The council is also welcoming back former co-chair Paul Debevec, a computer graphics and virtual production innovator and VFX branch governor who serves as a director of research for product innovation at Netflix and is an adjunct research...
- 11/2/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Covid-19 places greater emphasis on remote working, Sony unwrapped a pair of developments from its Innovation Studios on its Culver City lot, including notable new technology for sound editors, mixers and sound review.
Speaking during a virtual CES press conference, Bill Baggelaar, exec vp/general manager at the Sony Innovation Studio and exec vp and Cto of technology development for Sony Pictures Entertainment, highlighted 360 Vme (virtual mixing environment) headphone technology, which the studio has already put through its paces on several features including the studio’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Venom: Let There be Carnage. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Baggelaar said the technology effectively ...
Speaking during a virtual CES press conference, Bill Baggelaar, exec vp/general manager at the Sony Innovation Studio and exec vp and Cto of technology development for Sony Pictures Entertainment, highlighted 360 Vme (virtual mixing environment) headphone technology, which the studio has already put through its paces on several features including the studio’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Venom: Let There be Carnage. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Baggelaar said the technology effectively ...
- 1/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
As Covid-19 places greater emphasis on remote working, Sony unwrapped a pair of developments from its Innovation Studios on its Culver City lot, including notable new technology for sound editors, mixers and sound review.
Speaking during a virtual CES press conference, Bill Baggelaar, exec vp/general manager at the Sony Innovation Studio and exec vp and Cto of technology development for Sony Pictures Entertainment, highlighted 360 Vme (virtual mixing environment) headphone technology, which the studio has already put through its paces on several features including the studio’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Venom: Let There be Carnage. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Baggelaar said the technology effectively ...
Speaking during a virtual CES press conference, Bill Baggelaar, exec vp/general manager at the Sony Innovation Studio and exec vp and Cto of technology development for Sony Pictures Entertainment, highlighted 360 Vme (virtual mixing environment) headphone technology, which the studio has already put through its paces on several features including the studio’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Venom: Let There be Carnage. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Baggelaar said the technology effectively ...
- 1/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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