Check out this EffectArchive (might be useful)
computer magic - Check out this EffectArchive (might be useful)-
Hi all
On our site, you'll find an archive of "Making-Ofs" and "How to do" Tips, all include with examples and pictures.
There are 7 different effects at the moment, but we update more as soon as possible...
(If you work with effects on your own, so why don't you help us`)
http://www.geocities.com/nocontrolcinema
That is awesome- exept it's not in english!! Aaiigh!
The pictures look great though. 
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Andy Holmes
-artist, animator
OHHHHH!! *smacks head*
You can choose at the beginning whether you want it in english or not! *feels extremely stupid*
That is awesome! For the sock puppet one, how did you "paint the background blue" after you had already filmed? I've been trying to do that without much luck for a while now.
Great job! I'll submit some more effects ideas, too!
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Andy Holmes
-artist, animator
Thanks for the compliment! We try to add more soon...
Well, how did we paint the background blue... actually, this is handwork (i didn't find a better way yet)
I converted the filmed material to a filmstrip and open it in Photoshop. Now I used the "Magic Wand" with a tolerance of 60 - 90, and deleted the chosen area (Backgroundcolor in Photshop is blue; the blue from the swatches is just the right one)
It's stupid work, but the mask will be very clean...
Yeah! That woul'd be great if you give us new ideas...
At the moment I'm working on our Sci-Fi Project TURICON; it has over 500 Effect-shots; so I'm sure there will be some to add too...
That was a very good and very impressive page. I just bookmarked it under my "video effects" folder. Very nicely done, simple and easy to folly explinations/steps, and good results. I hope to see some film work from you guys soon. Should be impressive.
I hope we get our "multimedia-section" working soon, then you should find two trailers of our projects "Turicon" and "Wild Danger" to download...
I just updated another 2 effects from "Turicon"...
Very, very cool!!
Common Guys, give me new ideas!!
For those of you who want the explosion-footage...
You can find them as Quicktimetimemovies at http://www.angelfire.com
the login is: movies/sollthar
password: 12345
You can find two trailers (A sci-Fi and a Horror-Project) as well...
But please do not rename or delete any of my files; thank you...
LOL, password: 1,2,3,4,5!
"That's the kind of password an idiot puts on his luggage!"
-Spaceballs
shoot, double post..
[This message has been edited by Mr. Hutt (edited 02-17-2001).]
Those .mov files aren't working...
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Yeah, sure it's a silly password... I wanted you guays to be able keep it in mind for a few klicks...
No, just kidding... (Actually, really I got the idea from Spaceballs! I thought it's a good password, easy to learn by heart and too stupid as anyone would try)
The files aren't working?? Hmm.. Strange. I have no problems with them and a few of my friends downloaded it without problems...
Sure you got Quicktime 4.0?
I noticed that in a lot of shots, FX6 for example, you moved your camera. How difficult was it to achieve good results with a dynamic shot (or was this movement an effect applied in post)?
Dackl (Caliber films), where are you based?
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Excellent tutorials. It would really be great if we could download a real avi file instead of just a tiny gif file.
In the the "Sfx 06" tutorial, can you please tell me the settings for the blood with the airbrush with Photoshop.
Great tutorials!!
Yes, the cameramovement was an effect that was done in post-production.
Because we do not have any motiontracking-software, we can just do effects in still-shots. But sometimes I want a cameramovement. So this movement has to be done afterwards. The most importantent thing here is to work in a high resolution, so that you can freely zoom without the picture getting unsharp...
jeromee:
You can download the trailers and videos in the multimedia-section; there you'll find quite all effects (and even more)
The Settings? Well, it was a dark red (blood isn't real red, it has a lot of black in it) and the Airbrush-tool was set to 11% with an unsharp brush.
Then you paint as long as it needs; but better use "real" blood. It looks more realistic.
A good trick for example is filming a blood splash in front of a blue- or blackscreen. Then the blood is "real" an can be put into every shot you want...
Your site is great. Your clips look like real film. Did you use Cinelook? What kind of camera did you use?
-Chase
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"...but movies cost millions of dollars to make. That's after gross deduction, profit percentage deferm and 10% of the nut, cash, every movie costs 2,184 dollars."
Quote from Bowfinger:)Visual Threshold Productions
Thanks... What is "Cinelook"???
We used normal digital Handycams (A Sony TRV-5E and a Canon MV200) - But I normally adjust colors, contrast etc with Premiere..
Cine Look is a program that makes video look like film.
-Chase
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"...but movies cost millions of dollars to make. That's after gross deduction, profit percentage deferm and 10% of the nut, cash, every movie costs 2,184 dollars."
Quote from Bowfinger:)Visual Threshold Productions
Very cool stuff, especially the beheadings. The army looked a bit fake, but the size of the GIF may have distorted the picture. It just seemed like there was no depth in the picture, but I loved the rest. I only hope I might be able to do some stuff like that one day...
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I once had 509 posts...but now I don't.
My favorite effect on there is the one where the soldier loses his leg. The way you tweaked the original footage layer by layer, bit by bit, (altering the soldier's flight, for example) as opposed to just slapping on a cheesy explosion in post an calling it done is awesome. I live for those kind of effects! They're so fun to do!
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Andy Holmes
-artist, animator
Yeah, I absolutely agree. It's those effects I really love working on; wenn you have to adjust details by hand and frame by frame... (Though I worked a long time with an Amiga, i'm used to working like that)
It's just great to able to edit the pictures, backgrounds and even the movements... So you have a control over your flm footage... Thats great!
How did you make the guy fly higher than he really did in the soldier clip?
-Chase
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"...but movies cost millions of dollars to make. That's after gross deduction, profit percentage deferm and 10% of the nut, cash, every movie costs 2,184 dollars."
Quote from Bowfinger:)Visual Threshold Productions
That was an unplaned effect. Actually I didn't want to adjust the flight, but I simply didn't jump high enough...
Because we used a still camera I could "make" an empty backgroundpicture (using different pics and overlaping them to delete myself out)
Then I cut me out of the picture using simple Photoshop tools and set my flight a little higher; and I adjusted pictures sharpness with motion blur to make the movement look more real and spectacular (With the empty BG shot i could fill the empty space; the place where I was standing before the correction)
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