"Since the history of optical effects has been hallmarked both by periods of ingenuity and progress, and by protracted periods of stagnation and disinterest, it's no surprise to see significant examples clustered together from those times of break-through."[via den of geek]
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Beowulf has really new look. It's very scenic, mostly Angelina Jolie's boobs.
The film is based on a centuries old poem (I have never read it). From wiki: "Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. Its creation dates to between the 8th[1] and the 4th century, the only surviving manuscript dating to circa 410.[2] At 3183 lines, it is notable for its length." It sounds interesting.
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Any Tom, Dick, and Harry can be seen on YouTube, but if you want to draw in the audience, you had better do something that will captivate everyone's attention - and this is where the mi VDO FX...
You've probably noticed the "expandable posts" feature in my blog. Well, the creator of this great hack has now come up with an even better alternative: Peekaboo posts" with a fade-in fade-out effect! This really does look great on a blog: the post expands and retracts within the same window by fading in and out slowly. For full details and to get the script to install in your blog template, pop on over to Hackosphere's blog.
Ever since I first saw She-Ra: Princess of Power, I’ve wanted a sword. I made my own out of balsa wood, cardboard and some glitter paint, and tried to stage a sword fight in the backyard with my brother, who wielded a plastic lightsaber. The lightsaber broke my sparkly sword immediately and I was no longer the power princess of the backyard.
Pranee McKinlay knows better than to build a sword from balsa wood and cardboard; she is an Armour and Weapons Technician at Weta Workshop who has worked on The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (more…)
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My first make-up experience was at Circus World in 1979 when I got my face painted like a clown with oil based make-up that didn’t wash off for three days. I didn’t play with make-up when I played dress-up because my mom never wore it, so until I was well into my teens, I only wore make-up to be a mouse, a witch and a strawberry at Halloween. Then I went off to college with no idea how to put anything on my face except for Clearasil, which I used a lot of.
In college, I was cast as a hostile, and possibly murderous, drag queen in a one act play called Death of a Diva. It was a no-budget student production for a playwriting class, so we were responsible for doing our own hair and make-up, and I did a pretty convincing make-up job, considering I’ve never been able to apply eyeliner or lipstick correctly. I usually wind up poking myself in the eye and getting lipstick up my nose. So, I can make myself look like a female impersonator, but I can’t make mysel
Previously: Women in Special Effects: Weta Workshop
Women in Special Effects: Weta Workshop Part 2
The first miniature I ever had was a model of the original Battlestar Galactica, which was built by my dad because I was four years old and couldn’t be trusted with an Exacto knife and super glue (still can’t be, for that matter). That, and my brother’s Base Star opened up a whole new world of miniature things that (A) we could destroy and (B) made us feel like giants. We’re short people and have to grab that giant feeling when we can.
Every model and miniature we built wound up on one of our battlefields. Mom would often come home to find my Victorian dollhouses in the living room, surrounded by a Mech army, that old Base Star and some Transformers.
Lucy Cant gets to make miniatures for a living at Weta Workshop, which makes me a little jealous. Here, she talks about getting into the field and how technology is changing it. It’s way past Exacto knives
Watching your favorite movie with those special characters with all that funny or weird makeup might have thrilled you a lot.
But do you know what exactly goes behind these special characters creation, yes good you know, it’s the special effects make up!
Make up for that matter as you know is meant to [...]
In part one of this series, several of the women working at Weta Workshop offered their advice on trying to get work in special effects. In part two they discuss the challenges they’ve faced,...
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My brother and I were obsessed with peeling our faces off when we were kids. It looked so cool on V when the aliens would pull back their human faces to show the lizardy thing underneath. We were...
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Erika Bach is the Digital Project Coordinator at Gentle Giant Studios, a special effects company that has created digital visual effects for the Harry Potter films, Pirates of the Caribbean and the...
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Do you remember the movie, the Mummy, no special effects here… This is REAL…Sand Storm, 26 April 2005. Al Asad, IRAQ. It's a wall of sand traveling at 60 mph. This picture was taken 1 min later and its dark as night.
