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DIY Filmmaking

Drawing on way too many years in film school (and way too long days working in the industry), The DIY Filmmaking World and thesubstream.com's Film Lab video series educate, illustrate and elucidate on the basic fundamentals of filmmaking art and technique, from the technical to the mystical.

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Mar 9, 2013

Hi Everybody, New tutorial up - Real Life StarCraft II. In this tutorial I go through free move camera tracking, then importing the camera tracking to 3dsmax, placing StarCraft models into the scene, ...

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Feb 12, 2013

Hey again! Here is another tutorial showing some of the cool features of Video Copilots plug-in Element 3D. This tutorial covers moving aircraft in 3D space and 3D camera tracking footage using PFHoe ...

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Feb 12, 2013

Using Adobe After Effects, Element 3D (Video Copilot plug-in), and a stabilization rig, I go over how to create a frozen action sequence. Element 3D and a stabilization rig are both not entirely neces ...

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Feb 5, 2013

There's something special about Laika Inc.'s Paranorman... Image Credit drafthouse.comHey! Did you love Coraline? Are you interested at all in stop-motion animation? Well, watch this feature on Laika ...

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Feb 5, 2013

Same poorly-trained camera operator, completely different story Image Credit thesubstream.com ...

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Feb 5, 2013

Last week at TIFF the buzz surrounding The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman was near-deafening... film fans all across this great city were clamouring to see director Paul T ...

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Feb 5, 2013

Shorts, learning from your audience and the fundamental plausibility of being hustled in the desert Image Credit thesubstream.comMike Clattenburg, creator of Trailer Park Boys and Afghan Luke, was kin ...

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Feb 5, 2013

The director of 100 Musicians and Nurse/Fighter/Boy talked with us about old school filmmaking Image Credit thesubstream.comCharles Officer has directed shorts, music videos for K'naan, and the featur ...

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Feb 5, 2013

Image Credit blogspot.comThe buzz at TIFF surrounding The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman was near-deafening... film fans all across this great city were clamouring to see ...

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Feb 5, 2013

Every year the fine folks at Row Three do a post-TIFF mega-wrap up, collecting the micro-blurbs of a bunch of attendees into a giant meta-analysis of what everyone liked, loved, hated, etc. etc.. We'l ...