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MAXON Announces Availability of CINEMA 4D Release 15 (Press Release)

Posted by on Sep 3, 2013 in Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases, Trade Shows | 0 comments

MAXON today announced immediate availability of CINEMA 4D Release 15 (R15), a milestone release of its flagship 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. Marked by new features and powerful 3D workflow enhancements to modeling, text creation, digital sculpting, advanced rendering optimization -- including all-new network rendering capabilities -- Release 15 expresses the company’s commitment to deliver its customer community with continued innovation and the most advanced 3D creative solutions in the industry. Ideally suited to broadcast motion graphics and visual effects artists, game developers, architects and designers seeking...

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CINEMA 4D R15: Anticipated Features (Preview)

Posted by on Aug 19, 2013 in Articles, Featured, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Previews | 0 comments

As we get closer to the shipping release of Cinema 4D r15, let's go over what all we can expect to find in Cinema 4D r15. I know we at MFM are definitely intrigued by the new beveling tool and the "Amplify" brush--which sounds as though it functions like the Bloat tool in Photoshop's Liquify--as these could simplify and speed up modeling...

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iPhone Filmmaking: The Touchscreen Media Revolution (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Aug 8, 2013 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, General, MicroFilmmaking, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 3 comments

Making an independent film, with a low budget is most easily possible through the iphone. While Droid devices may have some of these options, for my money, only the iphone replaces all my technical equipment needs for making films. And its use as an image acquisition device isn’t restricted to Indie films; iphone video clips were used in the Holly wood movie, THE AVENGER, and even some Oscar-winning...

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The Do’s & Don’ts of Successfully Directing Actors (Article/Tips)

Posted by on Jul 24, 2013 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, General, Interviews, MicroFilmmaking, Retrospectives, Tips, Tutorials | 0 comments

As we prepare for John Badham's new book, John Badham on Directing, it seemed a great time to look at some advice from his last book, Creative Wars: I'll be In My Trailer. This piece comes straight from John Badham’s experience as a director and it rings just as true for the microfilmmaker with a $3000 budget as it does for the Hollywood director with a $300 million budget. However, these rules are perhaps most important to the microfilmmaker, because a microfilmmaker doesn’t have a studio sending someone to babysit him on his film and, if he screws the rules up, he doesn’t have the financial resources to recast it...

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Indie Film Company Attempts to Make History with 52 Films in 52 Weeks… (News/Release)

Posted by on Jul 4, 2013 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Event Coverage, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Press Releases | 0 comments

Running Wild started as a micro-budget film company in 2010 from the creation of renowned African-American playwright Gus Edwards and filmmaker Travis Mills with the aim to build a cinema movement that stays local. Utilizing local actors, crew, music, businesses, and more, they have produced more than thirty short films and three feature-length projects since their genesis. There newest and greatest endeavor is the creation of 52 shorts films in 52 weeks during 2013.

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June, Adrift: Female Indie Kickstarter Ribs Zach Braff (Indie Press Release)

Posted by on May 20, 2013 in Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Press Releases | 21 comments

Following in Zach Braff’s footsteps, the June, Adrift Kickstarter video begins with Moore making a humorous appeal to “her” Scrubs fans (she was a featured extra in a season 9 episode) and directing them to check out her own project. The women go on to offer Braff a special incentive in exchange for supporting some like-minded independent filmmakers. With a successful Kickstarter campaign, the Crafty Shoddmanship team will be able to pay cast and crew and send them to location in Maryland.

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