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POST MAY 2015
ON OUR COVER
2 EDITOR'S LETTER
Post Assembled
By Marc Loftus
2 POST SCRIPT
Post TV: It's A Wrap!
By Linda Romanello
4 POST PICKS
Top announcements from NAB 2015
8 BITS & PIECES
What's new in post production
14 PRIMETIME
AMC's Mad Men
By Linda Romanello
16 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR
Paul Feig — Spy
By Iain Blair
44 FIELD TESTED
Modern VideoFilm employs Autodesk's
Flame Premium
By Dave Cole
46 REVIEW
RTW's Loudness Tools
By Keith Hodne
48 PEOPLE
Keeping tabs of the industry's movers & shakers
SERVING THE INDUSTRY SINCE 1986
VOL 30 · NO. 5
THIS MONTH IN
• Building the futuristic Tomorrowland
• Vancouver: A VFX industry destination
• Inside Out incorporates the latest CG techniques
• Virtualization's role in the graphics industry
• Super effects for superheroes
DEPARTMENTS
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Mad Men
Spy
SCAD
FEATURES
18 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
VFX and previs for the summer's
biggest film
By Marc Loftus and Linda Romanello
24 FOCUS ON CAMERAS
New models take center stage at
NAB 2015
By M. J. Foley
28 MAKING THE GRADE
Experiential learning preps the next
generation of post professionals
By Christine Bunish
34 SOUND LIBRARIES IN THE MIX
When combined with custom
recordings, commercial sound
libraries are helping sound
designers deliver unique results
By Jennifer Walden
40 SPOTLIGHT ON
NEW YORK STUDIOS
Post for movies and TV benefits
from tax incentives; spot
work remains strong through
advertising transition
By Christine Bunish
Uncertain
WEB EXCLUSIVES
WWW.POSTMAGAZINE.COM
• Blogs: NAB and Storage
• Avengers: Age of Ultron:
Prime Focus World's
Stereo 3D work
• Maggie: Director Henry
Hobson's zombie flick
• Somatone Interactive's
mobile game audio
Marvel's
Avengers:
Age of
Ultron. ILM,
Trixter and
The Third
Floor talk
VFX.
