She spent 20 years producing digital effects for commercials, films and theme park rides.
In contrast to the millions spent on digital effects today, Harryhausen made his magic on a shoestring.
Harryhausen admired the three-dimensional quality of modern digital effects, but he still preferred the old-fashioned way of creating fantasy.
"Suddenly we have a godlike capability, " says Richard Edlund , president of Boss Film Studios , a digital effects company.
Instead, he discovered an "elaborate, gorgeous" movie filled with impressive digital effects.
On Saturday I hooked up a scanner to my computer so I could take some of my old-school drawings and add digital effects.
In 1997, just as the original trilogy was fading from the collective consciousness, Lucas brought the three films back to theaters, punched up with new digital effects.
What's exceptional is the orchestration of color, form, light and dark (lots of dark), 3-D technology and digital effects into a look that amounts to a vision.
Maddin has discovered a new kind of cinema, the welding of silent-film techniques, avant-garde imagery, and twenty-first-century technology (there are digital effects smuggled in throughout the picture).
At the start of "Captain America, " the filmmakers had to use digital effects to shrink Chris Evans's massive physique rather than rely on some scrawny actor to be his double.
The series' other great strength (along with the digital effects team's vivid rendering of Rowling's most imaginative fancies) has been as a showcase for a vast gallery of terrific character acting.
Between them, Fincher, star Brad Pitt, all the actors who play Benjamin at various ages, and some triumphant makeup and digital effects teams stitch together a character who is completely believable from first to last -- or last to first, if you prefer.
Yes, the digital effects are phenomenal -- midget dragons, oversize dragons, a flying coach drawn by seven white birds, a fully rigged ship rising from beneath a lake, aerial shots of the Hogwarts campus that truly put the fanciful buildings on the map -- but they're so skillfully interwoven with the main action that you take them for granted as casual magic.
Gotcha, another shareware program, allows you to add digital video effects to captured images.
By comparison, blockbusters like "Independence Day" use from 300 to 400 digital visual effects.
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The intention is to make the digital special effects and swoopy landscape shots look smoother, which they do.
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You can also add digital video effects to the captured images.
The Voodoo 5 5000 also features the T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effects engine, which creates cinematic effects including motion blur, depth of field, soft reflections and soft focus.
Suddenly, the machine's display fades to black, temporarily blinding the user while a targeting reticule overlays the screen, accompanied by a series of mechanical and digital sound effects.
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Alongside the analog oscillators and filters are digital oscillators and effects, plus tunable feedback loops and bit-crushing effects that no other synth has ever had.
As you do your homework (which you should) don't confuse the razzle-dazzle effects of digital branding with the razzle-dazzle of the point you're trying to make.
Furthermore, there should be massive network effects in digital learning, where the more people use a platform, the better and more useful that platform will become.
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After isolating the effects of digital display from other social content (such as user comments and viral activity), the analysis also found that social media had much higher impact than other digital media.
It is a magnet to cyber-entrepreneurs who dream of pushing the computer revolution into new areas: companies such as American Cybercast, which is trying to pioneer entertainment on the Internet, Virtual Emporium (Internet shopping) and Digital Domain (special effects).
Both companies were innovators in developing digital storage architectures serving particular needs for rich content storage in archiving, digital content libraries, special effects and post production.
Then there's Digital Domain, a visual-effects house started by James Cameron that Bay bought in 2007 with his business partner, John Textor.
Now that Apple has both a digital editor and Nothing Real's high-end special-effects applications, it has the makings of a serious digital filmmaking software suite.
To make it possible to capture the most cherished moments, the PowerShot A1400 digital camera features Digital IS to help reduce the effects of camera shake and subject movement and a help button that gives users answers to common questions they may have about the camera's many high-quality functions.
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