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SERVING THE INDUSTRY SINCE 1986 VOL 27 · NO. 6 2 EDITOR'S LETTER The business of post By Randi Altman 2 POST SCRIPT Source Audio's solution By Marc Loftus 4 BITS & PIECES What's new in post BUSINESS 16 RUNNING A POST HOUSE Staying happy and profitable. By Randi Altman TECHNOLOGY 20 A CLEAR VIEW The importance of monitors and displays in post. By Christine Bunish GRAPHICS 26 BROADAST DESIGN Creating an identity with graphics and animation. By Marc Loftus AUDIO 32 SONIC BRANDING Creating an identity with sound. By Jennifer Walden DAILY NEWS UPDATES WEB EXCLUSIVE Xfrog brings CGI weeds, real issues to light By Allen Clements 32 Glenn Dady, Wade Sturdivant and Dan Calhoun at The Richards Group called on Dallas-based Janimation to create the animated character "Tim the Tomato" for NatureSweet. The studio used Autodesk Softimage for 3D, the Arnold renderer, The Foundry's Nuke for compositing and Adobe Photoshop running on mostly Dell workstations with Nvidia graphics cards. You can see Tim now on the NatureSweet Website (www.naturesweet.com), as well as on TV and in print. Twenty- year-old Janimation (www.janimation.com) shares its secrets of success and longevity in our "Running A Post House" feature on page 16. WEB EXCLUSIVE Trends in music for games By Christine Morente This Month In 20 14 12 12 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR William Friedkin — Killer Joe By Iain Blair 14 EDUCATION Supply-side creative technology in the post-modern world By Robin Bargar 10 TEN MINUTES WITH… Steve Wozniak By Randi Altman 38 POSTINGS A graphic glimpse of some recent work 40 PRODUCTS The latest in hardware & software 42 DEAR COLORIST 45 PEOPLE Scripted and non-scripted television By Eric Babinec Movers & shakers 46 REVIEW "The Avid Assistant Editor's Handbook" By Kyra Coffee By Jonathan Moser 47 REVIEW DPA's MMC2011 mic and MMP-A preamp By Luke Harper 48 REVIEW Wacom Intuos5 By Brady Betzel • Visual Effects Reveal: The technology behind this summer's VFX blockbusters • Gaming gets unreal using cutting-edge techniques • Raising the bar in CG-animated features www.postmagazine.com Post • June 2012 1 WILLIAM FRIEDKIN COLUMBIA COLLEGE DELL;S MONITOR STEPHEN ARNOLD MUSIC ON OUR COVER