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SERVING THE INDUSTRY FOR 25 YEARS DEPARTMENTS 2 EDITOR’S LETTER A look back at NAB 2010 By Randi Altman 2 POST SCRIPT Pushing...and resisting stereo 3D By Marc Loftus 4 BITS & PIECES What’s new in post T R E N D S 16 THE BUSINESS OF POST Evolve or die. That is the conclusion these long-standing post houses came to in order to survive. By Christine Bunish 3 D S T E R E O 22 MOVING IN STEREO Movies, animation, concert films, horror flicks, even indies and producers of short films are getting on the stereo 3D bandwagon. By Ken McGorry V F X / M O G R A P H 28 MOCAP & KEYFRAME A match made in heaven. By Randi Altman A U D I O 32 AUDIO FOR NEW MEDIA Regardless of where it will be heard, high quality abounds. By Christine Bunish DAILY NEWS UPDATES WEB EXCLUSIVES • 3D brings humanity back to production By Deborah Osborne 36 San Diego-based Pendulum (www.studiopendulum.com) employed both motion capture and keyframe animation on the trailer and in-game cinematics for SEGA and Marvel's Iron Man 2videogame. In the portrayal of such recogniz- able characters, they relied upon PhaseSpace and propri- etary mocap technologies to capture realistic human and camera motion, while also keyframing the more dramatic and dangerous sequences with Autodesk's Maya and MotionBuilder. For more on the relationship between motion capture and keyframe animation, turn to page 28. www.postmagazine.com • 20 years of Photoshop By Gareth Edwards This Month In 16 4 12 DIRECTOR’S CHAIR James Ivory — The City of Your Final Destination By Iain Blair 36 POSTINGS A graphic glimpse of some recent projects 38 PRODUCTS The latest in hardware & software 40 POST POSITIONS Creating new efficiencies in the media and entertainment industry By Jake Winett 42 PEOPLE Keeping tabs of the industry’s movers & shakers 43 REVIEW Shotgun Software By Jim Geduldick 44 REVIEW HP Z800 workstation By Dariush Derakhshani • Shrekcharacters get a new digital makeover. • VFX studios show their mettle with a bigger, better Iron Man 2. • The sizzling game graphics in Dante’s Inferno. May 2010 • Post 1 MANTRA DESIGN/IN THE QUBE OPTIMUS STAGE CLIENT AREA SAMSUNG/WONDER-FULL ON OUR COVER