One, a "spread" edition that allows you to see the actual layout as it appears in the print edition. We do not recommend that you print this edition but it is far easier to read on your computer screen.
The second version is our "print" edition which is in single-page up form. While this one prints well, if you are going to read the magazine on your computer, we recommend the "spread" edition.
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The Non-Linear Creativity issue looks at the subject of non-linear, not just as it applies to tools like video editing, but also as it has influenced the way that we do our jobs, our projects, our careers, and other aspects of non-linear creativity in these rapidly changing times. We look at projects that are done in creative, non-traditional ways, at people whose careers have followed unconventional paths, and at technologies born of necessity by project demands. It is a powerful issue that includes:
In-Three’s Stereoscopic 3D Solution - A New System Begins with a Single Camera. Yes, One.
The Making of: Welcome To My World - A small team in Nigeria creates a project that saves an orphanage planned for destruction
A Non-Linear Career - A top VFX artist’s journey to the jobs that ignite the big screen
From LiveType to the iTunes Apps Store - One of LiveType’s creators returns with a new iPhone-focus
The Journey To A Nepali Recording Studio - How a New Yorker found peace, music and media in Nepal
Industry News - A look at some of the big news items in our industry
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In this issue, "Thinking Big," we talk with companies that are growing rapidly and successfully in spite of the marketplace malaise that many are experiencing in these hyper-competitive times. What we found out from these incredibly successful companies may surprise you.
Making Big Plans: Team-building in South Africa -- How a South African animation company is taking over the world.
DaVinci: Rebuilding the Brand -- A talk with Blackmagic Design's Grant Petty about the future of one of the industry's mostly influential companies.
Molecule-fueled Imagination -- Unusual approaches to creativity inside one of New York's most successful post houses.
HDNet's Drive Toward Success -- One of the HDNet's founders tells the story behind the company.
Small Steps To Big Success -- How a Georgia company is growing, against the odds.
Setting A New Home 3D Standard -- Stereoscopic 3D hasn't "arrived" until it arrives in the home.
Participating in Your Own Rescue -- One way to think big is to never buy even your most logical excuses.
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The Stereoscopic 3D issue is filled with expert insight and commentary, opinion, technique and from-the-trenches stories about many facets of acquiring, creating, marketing and distributing Stereoscopic 3D. Here's a brief look at some of the people and technologies powering the new generation of 3D storytelling -- which looks like it might be here to stay this time!
Brian Gardner explores the roots of 3D in human perception.
Bernie Laramie of Stereoscope Studios and Jason Goodman of 21st Century 3D show the amazing 3D rigs they've built in order to capture their stories.
John Daro shows us how he handles 3D DI at industry-leader FotoKem.
Jim Mainard at DreamWorks Animation and Greg Foster, the president of IMAX Filmed Entertainment, talk about what 3D means to their companies.
Ray Zone, the world expert in the history of 3D imaging, examines its past to see its future
Chris Heuer describes bringing the classic "Nosferatu" into 3D.
This is just the beginning of the COW Magazine's 3D coverage, but it's a GREAT start! See for yourself.
We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we had making it.
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One of this issue's biggest stories isn't a game: Oscar and Emmy-winning director James Moll follows three men running nearly 50 miles each day across the Sahara Desert, offering insights into documentary filmmaking, storytelling, and the frame. So why an issue on games production? Because it's diverse, and growing fast. Because there are jobs there. Rick Castaneda helped design a gaming first: cinematic Bingo! This unique project combined every aspect of his team's expertise, including motion graphics, animation, interactivity scripting, surround sound authoring – even designing buttons on the handheld remotes for a theater full of players. One of the world's truly cutting-edge developers shows the future of gaming on the most sophisticated platform yet: the iPhone and iPod Touch. Dustin Lau reveals media management secrets learned from turning 14 hours of raw game capture footage into a 30-minute show, 40 times per year. William Dwyer offers a tour through the Five Stages of Grief in working with clients. In another set-up saga, Bob Zelin sweats bullets as he installs one of the first Blackmagic Broadcast Videohubs in the US, in the facility of one of the world's biggest games companies. It's a reminder that people who make video games work with a LOT of video. And Ron Lindeboom shares how careful listening turns failure to success. You'll have as much fun reading this issue as we did making it.
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The New Visions issue of Creative COW Magazine begins with John Galt of Panavision taking COW readers inside 'The Truth about 2K, 4K and Pixels,' separating 'real' pixels from 'marketing' pixels, as he explores the world of 2K, 4K and advanced imaging acquisition. Then join COW leader Jeremy Garchow who takes us inside the world of Panasonic's AVC-Intra in the world of production. Then join COW leader Pete O'Connell, compositor extraordinaire, as he introduces After Effects users to the power of NUKE, in his 'NUKE: An Introduction for After Effects Users.' If you have been using AE for years, as Pete has, you won't want to miss this one. Then the irrepressible Grinner Hester shows how he sold a show he wasn't working on to a network he had never seen. It's a story of tenacity that only Grinner could tell. Then Russell Lasson, who has become one of the COW's most popular authors and leaders, takes our readers into the intricacies and technical challenges of the world of Digital Cinema, using QubeCinema's QubeMaster Pro. Stereoscopic 3D production comes next, with Christopher Werronen unlocking some of the production issues in this rapidly unfolding new market. Last but not least by any means, Harry Pallenberg looks at his foray into the world of Film Festival Magic. It's both funny and informative. In this issue's Back Forty opinion column, Ron Lindeboom looks at the reasons for the success of Creative COW Magazine and answers the question: 'With some of the industry's magazines announcing that they are going to digital-only format, will the COW Magazine follow suit?'
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The visual effects issue of Creative COW Magazine is filled with ideas, inspiration, techniques and projects from the world of visual effects. Featuring some of the top artists from television and film, the issue takes you inside the incredible visual feast that you see in Warner Bros' ``Pushing Daisies`` -- arguably the most beautiful television world ever created. Then go into the world of invisible effects, looking at the magic created that the audience will never see -- and why these kinds of effects are often more important than the visual and special effects that wow audiences. Also in this issue is an artist who shows how to improvise effects in the production crucible of on-set production -- meeting the needs of the production that weren't planned or storyboarded. Learn the power of shadow effects in your lighting. And in this issue, you will also learn about depth of field converters and the state of Blu-ray production.
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This issue of Creative COW Magazine is filled with great stories of actual productions and how they are created and the obstacles overcome using the methods outlined. Meet the team behind TV's Emmy® Award-winning South Park, and how they deliver their show, sometimes with minutes to spare before air time. Enabling the future of film production by collecting metadata on-set to empower VFX and editing workflows. Meet a production team of 9 people that handles THREE major network shows a week. A producer offers ways to Fix It In "Pre." And much more.
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The Non-Broadcast Production issue is filled with many great stories and techniques spanning a wide range of productions, including in-stadium sports television on massive HD screens, archiving 14 terabytes of classic Elvis video at Graceland, museum five-screen projections with dioramas, working with XDCAM HD at England's Wembley Stadium, creating the stage show for Journey's latest world tour, making cutting edge medical videos, creating top-notch real estate productions and many other projects. This issue's bonus feature is Creating HBO's The Wire, with a look at camera and shooting tricks and strategies -- along with many other techniques that went into creating this five-season HBO masterwork series.
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The Music Videos issue is filled with examples of creative ideas, techniques and shooting styles that were used in some of the great music videos that you can see on TV, on YouTube and elsewhere. There are many examples of workflows, cameras, lighting techniques and other concepts that you will find useful, regardless if you are a producer, an editor, a compositor or work with cameras and lights. This is a great issue and one that we know you will find useful.
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In this issue of Creative COW Magazine, you will meet one of the men that made Max Headroom such an 80's icon. He'll share strategies and how it all came about, including some of the techniques used. One of the members of the legendary Robert Abel & Associates team takes you inside some of the earliest uses of CGI and how these commercial techniques preceded their later use in the world of film. You will also be taken inside a direct response advertising expert's world and how it works and why. You will also learn how one man made a commercial that you would swear used 3D software but doesn't. You will discover five ways to get control of your billings and make more money with less stress. Watch as one woman handles 11 deadlines a day -- and you thought you had it bad, eh? Learn an artist's secrets for high-end graphics workflows. And take a tour of drive technology of the past, the present and the future.
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Our Premiere issue includes:
- Audio Techniques for Video Editors;
- An Interview with Markus Rothkranz, creator of Atomic City;
- Building a Rock Solid FCP System, No Matter What Version You are On
- 12 Things I Know About Business at 55 That I Wish I had Known At 25
- A Look at the Panasonic HVX200
- Working With the Sony XDCAM PDW-f350
& much more...
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