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Ellen Wolff
Ellen Wolff is a Los Angeles-based journalist who specializes in visual effects, animation and eduction.
Articles by Ellen Wolff
Guinea Pigs to the Rescue
August 11, 2009 – VFX guru and helmer Hoyt Yeatman discusses the gee-whiz 3-D effects of G-Force.
It all started in a five-year-old boy’s imagination. Several years ago, the son of Oscar-winning ef...
Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?
August 11, 2009 – VFX company recruiters reveal how to get—and keep—a job during the economic downturn.
Panels focusing on how to get a job are always among the best-attended at SIGGRAPH. But this year—per...
CG on the Fly
August 11, 2009 – SIGGRAPH spotlights real-time animation
People who work with real-time animation don’t often see their work projected at SIGGRAPH. Whenever real-time projects have appeared in the confere...
Fantastic Weather
June 26, 2009 – Pixar’s Peter Sohn sheds some light on the making of his wonderful new short, Partly Cloudy.
It seems fitting that Pixar’s newest short, Partly Cloudy, is about things being...
A Student Project with Oscar Pedigree
June 26, 2009 – The Spine links Academy Award-winning director Chris Landreth to Seneca College once again.
When Chris Landreth's animated short Ryan won the Oscar in 2005, Seneca College i...
Bringing the Force to Singapore
April 01, 2009 – Lucasfilm training goes global.
When George Lucas launched Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore in 2005, he felt that working within Asia’s anime culture would help foster the look he wanted ...
Animation Magazine’s Oscar Watch
March 11, 2009 – Shorts Race Emerges as Sublime Global Sampler.
The conventional wisdom about animated shorts is that they can spotlight emerging talent, test new techniques or explore subjects that might...
Insider Tips: Some of today’s top pros share their insights on getting the right animation education
May 01, 2007 – +DreamWorks animator Cameron Hood couldn’t have predicted the circumstances surrounding the return to his alma mater, Toronto’s Sheridan College. But when the school invited DreamWorks Animation ch...
Persistence of Vision: How 2D Animation Education is Surviving Today
January 01, 2005 – When last year’s student Oscar for animation was handed out, it went to a 2D animated film, Alex Woo’s Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher.
But the extent to which 2D will continue to flourish among studen...
