Articles Posted in the Tutorials Category
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Paranormal Activity Special Effects
Recently recovered from the Indy Mogul archives, a never-before-seen-on-Youtube episode of Epix HD’s “FX Reboot,” starring Erik Beck recreating some of the practical special effects from “Paranormal Activity,” including the foot drag.
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Tutorial: Dynamic Machine Gun
Andrew Kramer’s back with this exciting new tutorial that allows you to change ricochets over different surfaces dynamically. In short, this means that you can now have a machine gun shoot bullets over a wall and move it over water and After Effects will change the ricochets from dust to water splashes automatically. Oh, and [...]
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$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera – Lose The Tripod
This is a nifty trick from YouTuber yeleleo that explains how you can build an image stabilizer for your camera for next to nothing.
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Tutorial: Learn how to make a fake window and fake glass
Shaun O’Rourke from Eleven Bravo Productions shows us how to create fake glass and a fake window for all those action scenes where you need someone to go flying through a window pane without harming the actor in real life.
Click on the clip below to watch how to make a fake window
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SLICING And DICING With Chris McCaleb
Chris McCaleb (who worked on post production on movies like Collateral and Miami Vice) shares ten editing tips with the Indy Mogul and Black Box TV community. Enjoy!
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Tutorial – Setting the White Balance
The guys from FrameLines gives us a short Tech Tip on setting the white balance when shooting your footage. Setting the white balance will ensure that your footage looks correct, but when used creatively, could also lend interesting possibilities to colour grading.
Watch the tutorial by clicking on the clip below:
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Tutorial: Shooting a Fight Scene
The guys from Westhavenbrook Productions released Episode 2 of The Danger Element. They’ve also released a tutorial that teaches you how to create some of the fight sequences used in this episode.
NOTE: They need to raise $10,000 ($6,455 raised already!) before the 1st of November in order to continue making this awesome series. See how [...]
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Tutorial: Car Chase
The guys from Westhavenbrook Productions released a web series called The Danger Element. They’ve also released a few tutorials that show you how to create some of the action sequences used in the episodes.
Here’s Episode 1 of The Danger Element:
And here’s a tutorial on how they did the car chase scene in Episode 1:
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Realistic Bullet Hit Tutorial
A while back, the guys from Corridor Digial released a pretty darn good tutorial on creating realistic bullet hits, whether it be on a person, the ground or a wall. It would be a shame not to have it here as well.
BONUS: This tutorial also includes pre-keyed footage of blood and smoke puffs that you [...] -
How to make a commercial in 5 easy steps
A few famous movie makers started out with Music Videos and TV ads. Since we already covered music videos here, we figured it would be a good idea to cover the basics of good television ads as well.
We scouted YouTube and found this video. It doesn’t cover the actual making-of part with all the cameras [...]
