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The Physical Side of VFX: Neil Corbould Talks About His Hands-On Approach to...
When the winner was read during the 2013 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, most people weren’t surprised to hear the names of the visual effects supervisors that worked on Gravity. Through an...
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Red Giant Unveils Universe, a Tool that Might Just Revolutionize the Plugin...
Here at No Film School, we love Red Giant. Their lineup of filmmaking tools, from PluralEyes to the Color Suite to BulletProof, has made the lives of countless filmmakers so much easier and more...
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Watch: Blackmagic, Adobe, Vimeo & More Predict the Future of Filmmaking at SXSW
Keeping up to date with what’s currently happening in the cinematic world is certainly an important part of being a filmmaker, as is being able to recognize and anticipate changes. We’ve heard many...
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Red Giant Announces GPU-Accelerated Magic Bullet Looks 2.5 & New PluralEyes 3.5
Earlier in the month, Red Giant software introduced Universe, a new plugin platform that is also its own community. The biggest thing about Universe is that it is free to sign up, so you can get an...
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The Powerful Motion Graphics Plugin, Nodes, is Back with Version 2
There are many plugins out there for all sorts of post production platforms that make it possible to generate 3D models, creating amazing effects you wouldn’t be able to pull off otherwise. One such...
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Levitation & Alien Forces: How to Create Big Practical FX with Little...
Have you ever wanted to just make a “quick and easy” film? That was filmmaker Joey Ciccoline’s intention for his first narrative short, a sci-fi film entitled 88:88, which has now gone on to win a...
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Red Giant Software Has Officially Launched Universe
Back in March, Red Giant Software announced the public beta of Universe, their innovative online post production platform/community — a potentially endless library of free tools, plugins, transitions,...
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See How They Did Some of the Brutal Effects in 'Only God Forgives' in This...
Think big-budget Hollywood films like the new Spiderman film are the only ones using tons of visual effects? Wrong! Even some of the smallest indie films can use mountains of CGI to do things that...
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Video Copilot Releases 'Ultimate Sound FX Toolkit', MotionPulse, Containing...
Using dynamic (and believable) sound effects is absolutely essential in creating an immersive environment for our films, but oftentimes these sounds are difficult to find. This announcement from Video...
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Making Jesse Eisenberg's Evil Twin: A Look at the VFX of 'The Double'
Richard Ayoade, who you might remember for directing the coming-of-age comedy Submarine, has teamed up with DP Erik Wilson, VFX supervisor Matt Clarke, and Jesse Eisenberg to adapt Dostoyevsky’s 1846...
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Breathe Life into Your Ghosts... Literally: How to Capture DIY Hologram FX...
Did anyone else lose complete emotional control of themselves when they saw the Tupac “hologram” perform at Coachella? Just me? Okay. One of the coolest things about that performance was the fact that...
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New Autodesk Mudbox 3D Modeling Software Empowers Indies for $10 a Month
Adobe’s move to CC and a “software as a service” model is still met with much controversy. This is in no small part due to the lack of any perpetual license ownership choice for those (many) who want...
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Remembering the Beautiful & Terrifying Work of 'Alien' Xenomorph Creator H.R....
The Alien quadrilogy is a one of the greatest crown jewels of American sci-fi horror. It has been touched by many different producers, DPs, and screenwriters, even 4 of the biggest directors in the...
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Hone Your VFX Skills for Free with the Non-Commercial Version of Pixar's...
If you admire the animation of Pixar and are interested in getting your hands on the same software that they use to create all of those adorable characters (and not so adorable ones too, I guess), you...
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Deconstructing Demon Souls: A Behind the Scenes Look at the VFX of 'I,...
Cutting Edge, a creative communications company, was given the challenge of working on some visual effects for director Stuart Beattie’s I, Frankenstein. What resulted were 116 shots of extraordinarily...
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How the CGI Dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' Ushered in a New Era for Visual Effects
Director Steven Spielberg is responsible for more than his fair share of cinematic innovations; Jaws proved that a movie could completely dominate at the box office, ushering in the era of the...
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Taking a Risk to Create the Impossible: The Story of VFX Studio Industrial...
Earlier in the week, we talked about how Industrial Light and Magic changed the cinematic world when they developed CGI and used it in Jurassic Park. Those computer generated dinosaurs marked the...
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Teleporting the Easy Way: Tips & Tricks on How to Sell the Effect
There are several techniques that you can use to pull off a good teleportation effect. Most understand the basics — how to splice two (or three) different shots together, having your actors freeze...
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Think 'Game of Thrones' is Epic? Wait Until You See How They Pull Off the...
Of the multitude of tremendously cinematic shows that dominate our airwaves today, Game of Thrones is likely the most ambitious, and it’s almost certainly the one with the highest production value....
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From Concept to Distribution: An Interview with 'Anomaly' Showrunner Terrell...
Here at No Film School, we focus a whole lot on the process of making feature films. However, long-form storytelling like television narratives and web series are entering a golden age in which...
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