Matte Painting BBC's Horizon looks at ILM and visual effects. This show is from 1985 and is a true gem. I thought it would be important and educational to show the interesting bits of the show, focusing on subjects such as optical printing, matte painting and even rotoscoping.
Color
Great video explaining the basics of color.
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PES
New Short by PES!
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Edit: not so new, just forgot to publish
My top 10 Prints and posters of 2014
Here is the list of prints and posters that I think are top notch for 2014. Some I own and the ones I don't, I want to own. Since a few prints from some private commision groups weren't done yet I couln't not post here. A certain Evil Dead print I had in mind to make the list.
Edit: I just realized I own all these prints. I have a problem
Ken Taylor's Alice in Wonderland print was part of the Mondo Nothing's Impossible Gallery event. There were some good piece in the show but for me this was the best of them all. The color is person are so vibrant and work very well together. AiW is one of my all time favorite disney movies so this print was a must have for my collection.
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One of the first solo shows for Mondo of 2014 was Laurent Durieux. His solo show was announced at the Mondo Mystery Movie which I was lucky enough to be at. You could tell people weren't to excited about the poster Durieux did for MMMXI. After his solo show a few months later his work started commanding higher prices. His Forbidden Planet poster isn't his most commercially successful from his solo show but by far my favorite.
2014 I started changing my taste in prints. I have been getting into more and more art prints as appose to Movie prints. Eelus's Summoning on the right was a big reason. I was lucky enough to be in the amazing commission group that made this print possible. With the success of Summoning Eelus created Conjuring on the right. I had fast hand on the day of the Conjuring drop and scored one. Really excited to own this set. One of my priorities is to frame these two prints.
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Blade Runner!!!
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I got insanely lucky on this mondo drop. I was lucky enough to score the variant and the reg! This is a bit of a stretch since I haven't seen this print in person yet, but it makes my list. Horkey is amazing. Need to get his Pan's Labyrinth print this year.
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My first Roamcouch was this print Revolution and Rainbow Inc./Brooklyn Bridge. The above is my favorite of the two.
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Equity was my first Chuck Sperry big purchase. I grabbed the wood edition of 25 at the Pop Époque – The Art of Chuck Sperry Art Show at Firehouse 8. I had the pleasure of talking to him about this print. He said he wanted to make something that was a little more affordable for everyone. The cost was $300 but compared to some other prints not a bad deal.
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Laurent Durieux's Back to the Future series is pretty damn good! I stood in line at Mondo-Con longer then I care to say for the BttF 3 Variant. Anyone want to trade their Bttf 1&2 Variants for my reg set?

Now local artist to me Ben Eine! First print of his and it is so amazing in person. Printed on hand torn paper with a glossy finish. I may need to frame this in 2015.
12 Color hand pulled screen print with UV screen on 90# Coventry Rag
Edition of 50
Signed and Numbered
Hand torn Deckled edges.
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From the same show as the Alice in Wonderland this was my second favorite. Rich Kelly's Sword in the Stone. Im pretty happy to have been able to sore both the prints I wanted from that show for a decent price. I picked this one up as an AP from Kelly's site.
Let me know what your top prints of 2014 were.
Phlegm - Fight or Flight
In a tiny little shed, in the middle of the night, Phlegm etches out his latest limited edition print using traditional techniques. An edition of 100 prints will be available Soon. www.phlegmcomics.com
Texting in Movies
Mondo-Con!
My favorite horror movie of all time remastered and a new score! Cant wait to see it!
To soon
Wonder who's job was lost in this oversight.
Anyone know if these have been printed? I want one!
Porkins!!!!
Roamcouch making of's
I purchased both of these (screen prints) in a preview sale last week. I should be getting them soon and cant wait to see them in person. Making of videos below.

Banned Sin City 2 poster
Yes, Eva Green is very attractive, but I dont see why this was banned. The United States is just to fragile I guess. The MPAA has no clue what they are doing.
Sideshow Collectibles!
Sideshow Collectibles does some awesome work! I am lucky to have a few of their pieces and they are amazing in person. My Boba Fett Mythos looks sooo good in person and the detail is top level. Some pictures below plus check out the two part video of behind the scenes of Sideshow Collectible.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Electro's Bolts Shot Build
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Electro's Bolts Shot Build. Narrated by David Smith, Digital FX Supervisor. We've always known that Spider-Man's most important conflict has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities of Spider-Man.
Spidey is back!
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Transforming Jamie Foxx into the Villainous Electro-Design FX-WIRED
In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Jamie Foxx stars as Electro, the glowing antagonist to Andrew Garfield's Spidey. In this video, learn how Sony Pictures Imageworks used a combination of makeup and CGI to turn the Academy Award winner into a blue, electrically-charged villain--with inspiration from lightning, neurological networks, and nebulas.
Creating lightening flash with curve tool
For this (Below) shot from Valiant I was asked to add some lightning flashes in the clouds. Thought about it for a second and realized I am not the best animator so i turned to the curve tool.
I added the time offset just to get the footage to frame 1.

Picked the area I liked for the curve tool to calculate
Then I hit go in the CurveTool tab and let it calculate.

Here is the image we will add the curve to.
Added a keyer to my clouds background to create an alpha of the area I wanted to have effected.
I copied and pasted the CurveTool Intensity Data tab into an exposure node in all three channels RGB.
This was my result!
You can also change your keyer to get different results or add an expression to the exposure tool to make it brighter or darker.
simple expression multiplying it by 2
The Grand Budapest Hotel VFX Breakdown by Look Effect
Valiant Trailer
Did a few shots for this short. After DI and sounds looking really nice!
Might do a quick tutorial on how I created the lightening with the curves tool.
Three wanted Air Pirates embark on a dangerous mission after discovering a lost child princess who may hold the ticket to their freedom. ------------------------------------ http://www.valiantfilm.com http://www.facebook.com/ValiantFilm https://twitter.com/ValiantFilm
Nuke Set Threads
Here is a very quick tip on how to set your threads in Nuke.
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Type X and this window comes up:

Type this:

Hit enter and you'll see this:

How ever many cores your system has, double that and that is the max threads you should enter. I've read that if you have a 12-core system you shouldn't set the max threads to 24. Some people say it actually slows Nuke down.
Mondo
Here is a great write up of the company I buy a lot of prints from. I own 2 of the 3 posters in the article!
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