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m a r c h . a p r i l 2 0 1 7 c g w 1 departments on the cover Editor's Note – It seems that everyone is chasing reality in some form in this issue, from Disney's successful transformation of Beauty and the Beast to live action, to Epic and The Mill's Project Raven, to even Kong: Skull Island and Emerald City, where the fantastical is rooted in actual locations and then augmented with CGI. Spotlight – Products: Lenovo's ThinkStation P320, Reallusion's Character Creator 2.0, Artec 3D's Leo, Vicon's Shogun, Nvidia's Quadro Pascal GPUs, OptiTrack's Active, Boxx's Kaby Lake upgrades, Chaos' V-Ray updates News: Workstation market continues to thrive Viewpoint – Adobe Premiere Pro celebrates 25 years Beastly Beautiful FX Artists at Industrial Light & Magic create a mythic island, a monstrous Kong, and unique creatures for Kong: Skull Island, where Kong is king. 2 8 C O M P U T E R G R A P H I C S W O R L D CGW features 4 Keep up to date for the latest trade show news and be sure to sign up online for CGW's bi-monthly newsletter Visit CGW.com for Web-only features and news Photorealism in Real Time New technologies from Epic Games and The Mill turn traditional postproduction on its head. 16 38 POSTMAGAZINE.COM See it in Post | VFX for the small screen | Creative sound for animation | Gifted director Marc Webb | Roundtable: previs, postvis & techvis An Oz Odyssey VFX send a modern-day Dorothy to an Oz like none seen before. 24 Chat with Barbie CG technology brings the popular toy to life in her own vlog. 30 Beautiful! Beauty and the Beast, a Disney classic, is reimagined in live action. 32 Walking on Air Visual effects lead to a daring situation in a spot for Capital One. 40 www.postmagazine.com POST APRIL 2017 VFX ON TARGET STUDIOS GO BIG FOR TV'S ARROW, SCORPION, G.O.T. & STRANGER THINGS PLUS: GIFTED DIRECTOR MARC WEBB ROUNDTABLE: PREVIS/POSTVIS NAB PREVIEW AUDIO FOR ANIMATION