The art of retouching clip from room.tv a Venice, CA based company shows how clips are polished these days.
This clip and the ones on room.tv web site shows a great before and after comparison from the wonderland of retouching. On room’s website you find more fx & design examples of their recent work. room’s mission is to merge editorial, motion graphics, computer animation and sound design into a complete creative experience. room edits commercials, music videos and films, design CG effects and title sequences and more.
room’s team members are:
Jeff Selis (editor), Elisa Bonora (editor), Bill Pollock (online artist/editor), Elad Marish (composer/designer), Brandon Toh (sound designer/mixer), John Musemecki (cgi arist) & Jason Barager (executive producer)
“In this new 2-part tutorial you will learn a great method for stabilizing footage in After Effects that smooths the result rather than freezes the tracking center. We will also create smoke flying behind a police car, which is as fun as it sounds.
This one tutorial has many great tips and techniques including, rotoscoping, expressions and matte blending.”
“I’d also like to thank Mark Christiansen for allowing me to demonstrate his stabilize technique in this tutorial. For more information about his great After Effects book” Click the book below
Some day’s earlier the same week videocopilot.net did release another useful Video Tutorial. The After Effects Video Tutorial “Smoke Screen” which teaches you how to use various compositig techniques to create these smoke designs in After Effects.
Please do not forget to support the work Andrew is doing. One great way to support videocopilot.net is to buy their products like Twitch. Twitch is available as a download version, buy Twitch here. Twitch from Videocopilot is a awesome After Effects plug-in. StrongMocha highly recommends this great plug-in.To learn more on Twitch you can read more here:
Alternative you could start to stabilize and/or track footage with monet or mokey both from Imagineer Systems, however these products come with additional costs you may do not want to spend.View the product overview chart to see how Imagineer Systems products compare and what you are missing in your toolbox: Chart
Gareth Edwards did produce the 250 HD effects shots all by himself. Gareth was using Premier Pro, After Effects, mocha-AE, PhotoShop, 3D MAX and some more tools. Gareth spend almost 5 month on the post production.
“Every once in a while we get a story at fxguide that indicates just how far and how fast the industry is moving. The post on Attila the Hun, directed by Gareth Edwards, is one of those stories. Edwards produced the 250 HD effects shots by himself in five months using After Effects and Photoshop. Averaging 2 shots a day, it was one man against the armies of Attila the Hun…. Read the rest of the story on fxguide”
Make sure you watch the Quicktime movie that is on the page click on “Edwards prepared a shot breakdown QuickTime movie which you can download from fxguide.”
From writer/directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the groundbreaking “The Matrix” trilogy, and producer Joel Silver comes the live-action, high-octane family adventure “Speed Racer.”
Slated for release on May 9, 2008, “Speed Racer” marks the Wachowski brothers’ first writing/directing collaboration since “The Matrix” movies. Joel Silver, who previously worked with the Wachowskis on “The Matrix” movies and “V For Vendetta,” is producing the film under his Silver Pictures banner.
“Speed Racer” is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, of a Silver Pictures Production.
More Information at speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com. Images and Video Cortesy of Warner Bros Inc.
CGSociety and 3D World present a rundown of the Top 100 3D Movies as selected by the CG community. 50,000 individual user votes did decide which are the 100 greatest 3D movies.
One of my favorites vfx and dfx movie from 1999 made in to the first place. The Matrix introduced new and so far unseen special effects like bullet time (Bullet time Walk through here). John Gaeta and his team is the genious behind the visual effect.
A great ‘31 Days of Oscar‘ promo from Fresh Paint is packed with stunning visual effects. “Using a combination of shot elements and 3d, we were able to bring a contemporary feel to otherwise classic movies.” As we look at this more from a vfx and Digital F/X point of view the spot shows a fascinating way how to combine footage, blend different scenes, mix the movie clips with the crew that is on stage and use effects like rain, smoke, lightning many, glass shattering, explosions and many other animations. This 2 minutes spot was done as a In Theatre promotion for TCM’s Oscar block of programming.
Fresh Paint is a design/animation/live-action directing team headed up by Kevin Robinson and Mike Papagni. Robinson had previously been director of animation at Brand New School and, most recently, a partner and creative director for Inner Circle Collective. Kevin has a unique perspective on the industry: Armed with a film school and cgi background, he has received many awards based on his design and storytelling skills.
Papagni is an effects, lighting, and rendering powerhouse, having worked as a lead 3d artist and technical director for places like Psyop, National Television, Brand New School, and Inner Circle Collective. The team has received many awards from such prestigious organizations as Type Director’s Club, AIGA, D&AD, Metro CAF, Stash, and the Art Directors Club.
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