While WhatCulture sometimes mistakes compositing and rotoscoping for CGI, the video is still worth a watch, as they show off a dozen times that VFX artists managed to create illusions that were so seamlessly integrated that you’d never know they
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18 Jan 2019 We hope you’ve had your lunch, because here comes our alumnus’s dark (dark, dark, dark) comedy about a frustrated office employee and the mysterious taco seller he plans to rob! Filmmaking The FMA Filmmaking one-year Diploma Program focuses on seven
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09 Nov 2018 This video looks at how Game of Thrones—and the Battle of the Bastards episode in particular—evokes such strong emotions in its audience by making sure every scene has a compelling value transition.
Read more 08 Nov 2018 Lessons from the Screenplay looks at how Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg wrote Shaun of the Dead to show us a great way to build a story. In the film, the supporting characters and even the story of the world
Read more 07 Nov 2018 Evan Snider walks us through the process of crafting a completely handmade chainmaille shirt, painstakingly assembled from thousands of copper rings, individually opened, then linked over the course of 66 hours. The finished shirt weighs in at about 25 pounds.
Read more 05 Nov 2018 In addition to keeping up a steady onscreen presence in recent years including his much-lauded performance in Loving, Joel Edgerton has been steadily building up a body of work behind the screen as a writer, producer, and director. After
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21 Aug 2018 On August 14, 1945, Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf, Germany— the very same day World War II fighting ended in the Pacific. While he has said that growing up in post-war Germany was unsurprisingly not the most joyful of
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29 Jul 2018 27 Jul 2018 20 Jul 2018 The director of ‘Training Day’ and ‘The Equalizer’ shares some words of wisdom.
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