Posted on February 3, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
This tutorial by ShortFormVidoes demonstrates how to create a Compass Gimbal that you would find in an aircraft using After Effect’s built in effects.
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Posted on February 1, 2012 in Editing | 3 Comments
Apple just released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 – and with the addition of a small numeral change comes a handful of important updates, key among them multi-cam support, advanced chromakey tools, support for output cards for preview monitors, and (about time) an upgrade path to import old FCP 7 projects into X (although you have to pay for that feature)
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Posted on January 31, 2012 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment
Vimeo user Peter Bohush demonstrates how he uses the Pro version of Mocha to track and rotoscope an actor for a special effects shot in his film, Broken Spirits.
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Posted on January 31, 2012 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment
Using only stock effects in After Effects, Vimeo user Flomotion shows you how to create a fireworks effect with a fractal noise and a dash of CC Flo Motion.
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Posted on January 31, 2012 in Music | No Comments
David Lynch once said: “Sound is almost like a drug. It’s so pure that when it goes in your ears, it instantly does something to you.” In light of his forthcoming BFI retrospective, The Guardian put together some of his greatest musical moments.
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Posted on January 27, 2012 in Editing | No Comments
The filmmakers at our favorite underwater film production, The Underwater Realm, talk about what it takes to put together a 16 terabyte media server running on Infiniband to safely store and stream Red Epic Raw files for a fraction of the cost of an enterprise grade server.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Off Topic | No Comments
This is a demonstration video showcasing Artist Scott Garne’s interactive still life project. It involves a motion-senstive frame that feeds realtime tilt data to a 3D scene.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 in 3D Graphics | No Comments
Ray Liotta, Michael Bay & Jon Favreau talk about the future of CGI with motion capture experts, Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel in this Funny or Die video.
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Posted on January 24, 2012 in Editing, Off Topic | No Comments
In the 90s, colorizing old cartoons seemed like a no-brainer, what could distract little tykes better than a swatchful of color? In 1992, Ted Turner, on his colorization bender took a batch of old black and whites, shipped them to South Korea where they were hand traced, colored in and reshot.
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Posted on January 20, 2012 in Digital Effects | 1 Comment
Vashi Nedomansky a few professional tips on how to color correct footage for evenness and then how to color grade to add visual punch and style.
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Posted on January 19, 2012 in 3D Graphics | No Comments
The title sequence to David Fincher’s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is an amazing mix of dark forms and stylized violence. This sequence which houses over 250 shots alone was created by visual effects house, Blue Studios.
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Posted on January 13, 2012 in Editing | 1 Comment
Steve Martin shows Mark Spencer the fundamentals of 3-point editing and how to execute a back-timed edit in FCP X.
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Posted on January 13, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
Don’t have this amazing funny talent to make your eyebrows dance?
Worry not. The folks at VFXbro and Final Cut Kings show you how a little bit of After Effects Trickery can have your eyebrows Dubstepping in no time. (Getting 22 million YouTube hits not included in the tutorial).
The Effect:
The Tutorial:
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Posted on January 10, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments
Nick Campbell demonstrates how to create a 3d logo inside Cinema 4d and composite it with real life footage in After Effects.
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Posted on January 9, 2012 in Digital Effects, General Production | 1 Comment
In this DVD audio commentary for the movie Contact, Robert Zemeckis discusses how they created the impossible mirror effects shot.
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