Top 10 Websites To Watch Movies Online For Free Without Downloading - StumbleUpon It is easy to watch FREE movies online from China here, since there are many video websites for you to do that, but outside China, there may be not many video websites to watch movies online for free, because of the Copyright thing. However, God likes free. There are always some great people who do the great things and let us watch full movies online for free. 1. On LetMeWatchThis, you can watch nearly all the latest movies online for free via different movie resources, such as novamov, fairyshare, megavideo, and so on. Go to LetMeWatchThis (PrimeWire.ag) Update: Since the website has been moved to 1channel.ch and letmewatchthis.ch, the letmewatchthis.com site is just a copycat now. 2. Similar to LetMeWatchThis, you can find out most of the latest movies on The Pirate City and watch them from other video websites. Go to The Pirate City (Not workable any more.) Update: 3. 10StarMovies Go to 10StarMovies 4. Go to MoviesPlanet 5. Go to Google Videos 6. Go to YouTube 7. 8. Go to Hulu 9. Go to Youku 10.
Animating Water Last week I attended SIGGRAPH 2010, and among the many good presentations, Valve game a talk on the simple water shader they implemented for Left For Dead 2 and Portal 2. So on the plane ride back from LA, I whipped up this little sample from what I could remember of the talk. Edit: You can find the talk here: The standard technique for animated water is scrolling normal maps, as I’ve previously written about. The Flow Map First we need to create a flow map. Using The Flow Map Now we need to use the flow map to alter the water normal maps. The graph illustrates that during a cycle time from 0 to 1, we want the layer to be fully interpolated at the mid-point in the cycle, and fully un-interpolated at 0 and 1. In the code above, HalfCycle would be .5 if our cycle was from 0 to 1. And that’s pretty much it.
Film Production Positions Explained Ever wonder what all those strange credits are when they roll by at the end of a film? I used to, until I moved to LA, where I started meeting Best Boys and Dolly Grips with their kids when I took my son to the playground—yes, Hollywood, where you meet Gaffers and Armourers at your average Saturday night house party. So I started asking questions, and here's what I've learned: 1. No, this job has nothing to do with explosives or pyrotechnics. 2. Now this job does deal with explosives, of a sort. 3. Though the gaffer manages the entire electrical department, all the guys who run cables and hang lights, his main responsibility is mounting and positioning lights and lighting rigs. 4. Grips are sort of like worker bees. 5. This guy runs the Grips dept and assists the Gaffer. 6. This guy has nothing at all to do with a wedding, unless we're talking something like Wedding Crashers . 7. A dolly grip operates the movie camera dolly. 8. 9. 10. This guy oversees the painting dept. 11. 12. 13. 14.
INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS - HOME - StumbleUpon DIY: Projects for Camera Assistants Do-it-yourself isn’t always about pinching pennies and saving a few bucks, sometimes it’s about making good use of your free time and building a custom tool. So with the summer heat just inviting you to whip out those power tools and build something great, here are 12 projects designed to make your life easier on set. 1. A front box is a wooden box that attaches onto tripods and holds items like your tape measure, camera reports, and even the slate. 2. When I challenged myself to build a film slate for less than $15, I didn’t think I would be successful. 3. If I am walking onto a set, my tagboard is always coming with me. 4. When it comes to camera reports, you have two options: you can purchase premade books of them or you can make your own template at home. 5. Having tags to slap on the Matte Box whenever you change filters is essential to making sure you aren’t swapping out that ND9 when you meant to go for the Polarizer. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Why DIY Projects Are Good for You
202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials Why buy it when you can build it? Well… most of the time you don’t have a choice. Other times it’s just way too much fun! ****Update: We have two new entries in our 202 Series “202 Sony Vegas Tutorials,” “202 Final Cut Pro Tutorials” and coming soon “DIY Horror: From Script to Scream!” Dollies XL-1 Table DollyIroning Board DollyDolly and Track SystemBuild Plan DollySkate Wheel DolliesRadio Controlled Camera PodBuild a Tracked Camera Dolly for CheapSimple DollySnodart’s DollyPVC dollyEazy DollyD8 Ladder DollyFilming Dolly With 10′ TrackSodart’s DollyJsal27′s Dolly system Stabilizers/Steadicams $14 SteadycamLight-Duty “Steady Cam” StabilizationImproved Steadicam for under 40 dollars! Car Mounts Poor Man’s process method for shooting an in-car sceneBack-seat-view car mountExterior car mountLow-budget (not DIY) car mountCar RigsCinesaddle Car Mount JIB Arms/Cranes Misc. Lighting Audio Stage Effects/Green Screen Blood, Bullets & Stunts Make-Up/Gore Costumes Props Featured Photo by Asiatic League
Reverse Key Lighting: More Useful Than You Thought I used to work with a cinematographer named Rob Draper (Halloween 5, The Spitfire Grill). He was having me practice one day by shooting a product shot for a whisky bottle. I had set the bottle up in front of a seamless backdrop and put a light in front of the bottle at about a 45 degree angle. Rob came in to see how I was doing. Reverse Key Lighting is also called “short lighting” or “narrow lighting”. Reverse Key Lighting can be used in closeups And in wider shots Outdoors Indoors It can be used in animation In a two shot With a lot of fill light Or very little fill light One of the strengths of reverse key lighting is the way the shadows falloff across the face. When you place the key light on the other side though, the light rakes across the face and you can see the light falling off into shadow on the side of the face closest to the camera. In addition to being more visually interesting, reverse key lighting offers some other benefits.
Final Draft Templates | How to Write a Screenplay Final Draft contains a wide variety of templates for graphic novels, scripts, TV shows and text documents (query letters, treatments, outlines, etc). Each template contains features of each script type, with element settings, page layouts, header and footer settings, mores and continueds, title pages, SmartType lists and macros. Final Draft’s television templates contain formatting guidelines (with sample text), establishing how each show displays its scenes and acts, and transitions between shots. Final Draft Templates: Open New Template To open a new template in Final Draft, choose File –> New from Stationary. Final Draft Templates: Downloading New Templates Final Draft updates their official site with new templates from time to time. For Mac users: Open Final DraftOn the navigation bar, click Final Draft –> About Final Draft.Your customer number will follow this format: 8FD-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX Final Draft Templates: Installing New Templates For Mac users, open the following folders: