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2 Post • May 2009 Industrial Light & Magic (www.ilm.com), and a crew of 350 VFX artists, helped tell the story of the USS Enterprise's maiden voyage, all for the new J.J. Abrams feature Star Trek. In one of the film's action sequences, the vessel enters a chaot- ic debris field. ILM VFX supervisor Roger Guyett, VFX art director Alex Jaeger, technical director Cyrus Jam, compositor Peter Demarest and resource assistant Brian McGraw created this custom cover for Post. Check out the full story on page 14. O N O U R C O V E R 4 EDITOR'S LETTER New York trends By Randi Altman 4 POST SCRIPT Keeping busy in the Big Apple By Marc Loftus 6 BITS & PIECES What's new in post 14 COVER STORY ILM produces high-tech VFX for the Star Trek movie By Ken McGorry 16 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Shawn Levy: Night at the Museum 2 By Iain Blair 18 SPECIAL REPORT Michigan attracts film production with tax incentives By Randi Altman 20 WORKFLOW Splice Here's custom Red workflow for Best Buy 42 OPEN HOUSE Broadway Video's reinvention by design 43 NYC POSTINGS A glimpse of some recent projects — posted in NYC! 44 NEW YORK NEWS Recent happenings in Manhattan 45 PRODUCTS The latest in hardware & software 47 EDUCATION Santa Clara University's faculty discusses curriculum 52 PEOPLE Keeping tabs of the industry's movers & shakers 54 REVIEW Nvidia Quadro CX By Tor Rolf Johansen 56 REVIEW The Foundry's Furnace for Final Cut Pro By Deb Eschweiler director's chair 16 workflow 20 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 SPLICE HERE nyc postings 43 EYEBALL NYC/TARGET M A Y 2 0 0 9 • V O L . 2 4 N O . 5 This Month In • Creating a more lethal Terminator with cutting-edge CG • India's star is rising in the worlds of animation, VFX • Gaming on the go: New mobile technology