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
Phlegm - Fight or Flight
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Texting in Movies
Mondo-Con!
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My favorite horror movie of all time remastered and a new score! Cant wait to see it!
The debut release on Death Waltz Originals is not only a brand new recording from Umberto & Antoni Maiovvi entitled 'The Hook & Pull Gang' but also doubles as a brand new re-score of the notorious classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The duo will exclusively perform the re-score live at MondoCon & Beyond Fest in September .
To soon
Wonder who's job was lost in this oversight.
Anyone know if these have been printed? I want one!
Porkins!!!!
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Roamcouch making of's
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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!
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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!
WTF Happend to Movie Posters
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IF (get it? Thats a big if, hence the capitalization? no? okay bad joke) you have ever accidentally somehow come across this blog you know I collect movie posters. Not the lame ones in the video below but soem really awesome ones from some bad ass artists like Ken Taylor or Tyler Stout. I would have to agree with this 100% with the exception of this poster I have on my wall pictured below.
www.goodbadflicks.com I take a look at just how lazy movie posters have become.
The Visual Effects of "Star Trek Into Darkness"
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"Star Trek Into Darkness" contains over 1600 visual effects shots, created by Industrial Light & Magic, Pixomondo, Atomic Fiction and Kelvin Optical Inc. In this reel, we'll take a look at ILM's work which encompassed virtually every tool and discipline in our effects arsenal. We hope you enjoy the work.
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The opening sequence sequence of "Star Trek into Darkness" is a great example of the varied visual effects challenges faced by ILM: large digital environments (with plenty of organic elements), creatures and digital doubles, animation, ships and a tremendous amount of simulation work (lava, smoke, water, etc.)