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This module will teach you lighting to post, how to set the height and angle of the background camera, match it to the foreground camera; teaches matching the colour, direction and intensity of the subject's instruments with the background natural light; delves deeper with an action scene that teaches you how to blend action elements with proper direction for actor eyelines. The final part of the module teaches post production compositing and also...
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Spaceships soar into space. Dots dance on a page. Rocks and twigs transform into expressive faces. Kids can easily create this kind of magic themselves, and all they require are a few simple tools. Divided into four short, easy-to-understand chapters, Animate Everything introduces basic concepts of animation to a young audience. Explaining visually with colourful images, siblings Lindsay and Will demonstrate how to bring everyday objects to life ...
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Lead Painter: Also known as lead scenic artist. Paints all the sets on a production, as well as backdrops as needed. On-Set Painter: The person responsible for the upkeep and continuity of paint elements during shooting. Location Sound Mixer: The person responsible for sound recording, including the selection of appropriate microphones and their placement and use. During production, this person is responsible for the recording and integrity of all...
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Meet the men and women who use their computer skills and creativity to bring computer-generated movie characters and fantasy worlds to life. Where do CGI artists get their inspiration from? What do modelers, riggers, and animators do? How is technology used to capture an actor's performance and use it to animate a CGI creature? And what does it take to turn sketches on paper into a groundbreaking, blockbuster movie?
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10 complete sections devoted to Pro lighting. Matching your lighting to fire-light, Christmas lights, uncorrected fluorescents, flashlights, candles with light and dark skin tones, work lamps, window lights, office interview, lighting chrome weapons, keying and groups of actors at a card table scene. When you finish the last DVD of this series you will never watch movies the same way again, knowing that the "Natural Sunset" light inside an apartment...
7) Pas de deux
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Norman McLaren takes a look at the choreography of ballet, with cinema effects that are all that you would expect from this master of improvisation in music and illustration. By exposing the same frames as many as ten times, the artist creates a multiple image of the ballerina and her partner (Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren). A bare, black stage and back-lit figures, plus the remote, airy music of panpipes, produce a quiet and detachment similar...
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Presented in the "Smilebox" curved screen simulation. On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of cinerama. This unique widescreen process was launched when television was deemed as a major threat to U.S. film exhibition. Fred Waller, cinerama's creator, had indeed labored that long on his dream of a motion picture experience that would recreate the full range of human vision. It used...
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The story of Nigeria's home grown film industry, which is gaining recognition as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon. First came Hollywood, then Bollywood and now Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, which released 2000 feature features in 2006 alone. Where else can you shoot a full-length dramatic film for {dollar}10,000 in 7 days? Until recently little known outside its own country, THIS IS NOLLYWOOD explains why Nigerian video production...
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"Pulls back the celluloid curtain on the nearly vanished world of ink pens, paintbrushes, pigments and tea... meet the pioneering women who brought hand-rendered animated stories to vibrant, multicolored life at Walt Disney Studios and beyond. Extensively researched with the full support of the entire Walt Disney Studios archival resources, plus a multitude of private collections, firsthand accounts, newly discovered materials, and production documentation,...
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"So you want to be an animator, but you don't have your own million-dollar studio? Don't let that stop you! From learning how to make a simple flip book to creating stop-motion claymation, you'll soon learn the many ways you can make great animated movies in your own home" ...(from back cover).
15) The cat returns
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Haru, a schoolgirl, saves a cat's life. To her surprise it is the prince of cats, and she is allowed to enter his kingdom and be his bride.
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"The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human...
17) DNAngel
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Daisuke Niwa discovers on his fourteenth birthday that he transforms into legendary thief Phantom Dark whenever he sees the girl of his dreams.
18) Drawn that way
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Seventeen-year-old Hayley Saffitz, a confident, ambitious, aspiring animation director, participates in her idol's summer program but must risk her blossoming relationship with his son if she is to prove she is as talented as the boys.
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Long before Jacques Cousteau and Richard Attenborough, a Frenchman named Jean Painlev�e made documentaries that captured the natural world in a unique manner. "Science Is Fiction" collects 23 of these short films. Painlev�e (1902-89) spent his life straddling the arts and the sciences, studying biology at the Sorbonne, but also hanging out with Man Ray and Luis Bu�nuel. Long fascinated by marine life, Painlev�e helped develop the underwater...
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In Miss Yukari's English class, every day is an adventure. First off, there's teacher herself. A bit of an airhead, she may have graduated from high school, but she hasn't left. And with the arrival of not one, but two transfer students (one ten-year-old prodigy and one space cadet), it's going to be an interesting year.
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