I found this great tutorial on making gradients on youtube. I use this a ton in motion graphics and simple effects and usually just made a matte with a ramp. But this guy also shows you how to make it with a shape layer which gives you a lot more control over over the gradient […]
There are a ton of tutorials out on the web for this trendy media creation. You have probably seen the Ford commercials for the Ford F-150…. or maybe you saw the Cee Lo Green music video (which I will let you google) but reguardless, you might be surpised how easy it is to do this […]
I am often having to access the hidden files on my mac (one of the FEW things that I miss about windows) but it can clutter your finder when you are in a normal workflow. So I found these instructions that will allow you to put a toggle for hidden files on your context (right-click) […]
Ok, maybe not my new job but certainly one I would have a hard time turning down! And before you dismiss it as a pipe-dream, Netflix does use human taggers for it’s media. But this got well beyond just giving 4 out of 5 stars… Each Netflix entry in the massive Netflix library is tagged with north […]
Because most agency or clients either assumed this was the program we used, or they wanted to know when this program was “eventually” going to hit the market.
I was doing some research on eBook platforms and found several top platforms (with apps) for ebooks. Here they are in no spcific order: Kindle Amazon Barnes and Noble KoBo Stanza Apple Bluefire Granted, different readers have different targets but these 7 apps have a broad audience and cater to just about everything ebook-wise.
Moon Rise Kingdom was one of my favorite films this year. Wes does an incredibly unique and captivating job of telling a story. So I am SUPER excited to hear that he already has a title and at least one new actor he hasn’t worked with before: Jonny Depp! The Grand Budapest Hotel will be produced […]
The beauty of this piece is only shadowed by the fact that it was shot on a Mobile Phone! Shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone. Winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011.
Luma Pictures may have had only a few scenes of involvement with “Prometheus” but the scenes they did were SO COOL! Using primarily Nuke and Maya, they created extremely fluid scenes. CreativeCow.net sat down with Luma Pictures Digital Production Manager Michael Perdew to talk about two of the key scenes they did for the Alien’s […]
Watching this beautiful video from NotWorkingFilms makes me wish I was indeed not working but instead tromping through the Colorado (or better yet Scottish!) heath and heather with nothing but my wife, my dog, and my camera…in that order!
THE MARMALADE uploaded a killer reel showing the skills of the “SPIKE” High Speed Camera Control System…Now I just gotta figure out how to afford it. This kind of rig reminds me of The Big Freeze rig but using high-speed robotic arms instead. Exactly repeatable camera moves can be created and modified within a matter […]
Watseinfeld created a beautiful tribute piece to one of my favorite movies, Hossiers. Through a combination of video and still frames, you can see the shooting locations from 25 years ago in the modern day. It’s well worth the click through.
@Austinkleaon offers up a few pratical points on how to Steal like a Writer! Writing is Collage. Carry a Notebook and Pen Read, Read, Read. Keep a Swipe File. Don’t wait until you know what you think to get started. Step Away from the screen. Keep a Daily Routine. Write something you […]
Love what the guys over at LeftCoast did to create an iPhone mic. As you probably know, you can’t plug a proper lav mic in because the iPhone needs an adapter to recognize it is a mic and not a set of headphones. So this is a quick fix, although you can also just make/buy […]
My number is 15,337,632. My buddy Handsome Randsom is 37,959,555. The Fake Jun Kang is 378,094,791. And as the numbers indicate, Twitter is quickly closing in on it’s 400 millionth user! (Hint: If you want to know what your number is, I found my under my name in my profile on my iPhone Twitter App.) Today […]
For those of you that haven’t found Klout.com yet, they measure your social media activity across 12 sites (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, FourSquare, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress.com, LastFM, and Flickr) and then calculate your Klout Score. Well, a few weeks ago, they changed up the algorithm for how they create your Klout Score. So, […]
I first saw “The Sacrifice” when I was taking an art film class at Wheaton. It was one of the first films that I saw that I can remeber stiring a desire for seperating films from movies. Tarkovsky made such an incredible inpact on filmmaking considering he only made 7 feature films in 27 years. Senses of […]
The Wrap did a great article on the Polish Brothers (The Astronaut Farmer) and their new movie “For Lovers Only”. Last I heard it had raked in over 300K. Profit. Not bad. “For Lovers Only,” an intimate romance made in luminous black-and-white by twin auteur filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, is a wildly successful experiment […]