Posted on: March 9th, 2010 From Online Video to Eight-Figure Picture Deal

Imagine this: you've just mastered shooting on a new digital-SLR or compositing using some new killer-app. You decide to drop a few hundred bucks to throw together a short video that demonstrates your newly acquired skills, and then you upload your finished piece to Massify, YouTube, Vimeo, or all three. A few days later, your inbox nearly explodes with e-mails from Hollywood executives and agents; they would all like to offer you a few million dollars and help develop your idea into a feature film.

via From Online Video to Eight-Figure Picture Deal | Studio | Massify.

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Posted on: March 8th, 2010 A Call To Arms: Adding Smoke Effects

Working on the final plate of the title animation for a World War II video game, see how to enhance two simple Photoshop images by combining them with some unique smoke clips. Learn techniques such as mask integration, mask expansion, layer blending, keying effects, 3D camera animation, expression creation and control with sliders, and camera depth of field.

via A Call To Arms: Adding Smoke Effects – Artbeats.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 Oscar Animated Shorts

2010 Oscar

: Animated Shorts

via Oscar Animated Shorts.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 10 Ways to Win an Oscar

Get fat, go ugly, play a Nazi—Jeff Bridges, Mo'Nique, and Christoph Waltz are Oscar locks because they channel a type. These are the sure-fire ways to win an Oscar.

via 10 Ways to Win an Oscar – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 Academy Awards – Best Pictures Not Nominated

Although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has awarded many deserving honors to its nominees over the years (Academy Awards® Winners from 1927/8 to the present), many other Great Films have been entirely overlooked, receiving not even a single Academy Nomination. Other Great Films received Academy Awards® Nominations but failed to win a single award. The same can be said for various great acting performances that were snubbed or passed over.

via Academy Awards – Best Pictures Not Nominated.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 Academy Award®-Nominated Great Films That Didn’t Win a Single Oscar®

About Schmidt (2002) (2)

Ace in the Hole/The Big Carnival (1951) (1)

Adam's Rib (1950) (1)

An Affair to Remember (1957) (4)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) (5)

Alfie (1966) (5)

Algiers (1938) (4)

Alice Adams (1935) (2)

All This and Heaven Too (1940) (3)

Amelie (2001) (5)

Continued:

via Academy Awards Mistakes and Omissions.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 Academy Awards Worst Oscars

The Academy has, with limited success, tried to limit the influences of pressure groups and promotion, box office gross receipts, and studio public relations and marketing on voting results. It has also attempted to limit votes for melodramatic sentimentality, atonement for past mistakes, personal popularity, and “prestige” or epic scale, but those influences have often had a decided effect upon the outcome of some of the poll results. Unfortunately, the critical worth, artistic vision, cultural influence, and innovative qualities of many films are not given the same voting weight.

via Academy Awards Worst Oscars.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 15 Hilarious Japanese Commercials Starring Hollywood Actors

The announcement that Quentin Tarantino recently starred in a Japanese Softbank commercial has been making headlines around the web this week, and I am still not quite sure why people are making such a big deal out of it. It’s no surprise that QT is somewhat well-versed in Japanese culture and no surprise that he enjoys hamming it up for the camera either. More to the point, I don’t think these goofy commercials are quite as detrimental to a celebrity’s reputation as it once was believed.

After YouTube and websites like Japander spread them across the internet for the whole world to see, and Bill Murray poked fun at the practice in Lost in Translation, it’s easy to see why the Hollywood elite shied away for a while. However, lately Japanese commercials seem to be back in vogue, and we are even starting to see domestic ads becoming more acceptable as well. Are these foreign ads really any more embarrassing than the very regular Jamie Lee Curtis and her Activia yogurt commercials? Okay, yes… some of them are. After the jump, check out 15 of the weirdest and most memorable Japanese ads featuring well-known Hollywood actors and actresses!

via 15 Hilarious Japanese Commercials Starring Hollywood Actors – Film Junk.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 How to Make Paper People

Stop-motion animation using paper cut-outs can take quite a bit of time to produce… unless you use The Paper People effect! This technique gives you similar results in a fraction of the time. With the use of a current version of AE, you’ll use the wiggle expression, hold keyframes, and the puppet tool to emulate the classic look of a beloved form of traditional animation

via How to Make Paper People | Aetuts+.

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Posted on: March 6th, 2010 Disintegration Effect Tutorial for After Effects

Disintegration Effect

Build a furious procedural Disintegration effect in AE

• Use displacement, turbulence and particle world

via VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals.

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