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The Art of the Trailer: Two Years in 30 Seconds

The trailer plays a major role in the marketing and ultimate success of a feature motion picture. This on-screen advertisement is so engrained in popular culture that most of the time it is taken for granted by movie goers. But industry marketing veterans know the trailer is the first and last chance to create a lasting impression on an audience. Most trailers range in length between 30 seconds and two minutes. It's within that short time span that the viewer will pick up on hundreds of cues about the movie. In the blink of an eye he will determine the genre, the gist of the story, the aesthetic and level of production. By the end of the trailer the viewer might well determine the fate of the movie. Is it a must-see or to-be-avoided? Read More

What began six years ago as simply a "creative outlet" for filmmaker/animator Ian Chisholm, Clear Skies III, the third film in his machinima series about the space adventures of the crew aboard the battleship Clear Skies, has steadily built a huge online audience thanks to its memorable storyline and characters, and innovative use of the iPi Soft's Desktop Motion Capture system, which played an integral role in bringing Chisholm's vision to life. Read More

White Paper: By Alexandre De Pereyra, Graphics Software Engineer, Intel Visual Computing

MLAA: Efficiently Moving Antialiasing from the GPU to the CPU

Efficient antialiasing techniques are an important tool of high-quality, real-time rendering. MSAA (Multisample Antialiasing) is the standard technique in use today, but comes with some serious disadvantages. new technique developed by Intel Labs called Morphological Antialiasing (MLAA) [Reshetov 2009] addresses these limitations. MLAA is an image-based, post-process filtering technique which identifies discontinuity patterns and blends colors in the neighborhood of these patterns to perform effective antialiasing. It is the precursor of a new generation of real-time antialiasing techniques that rival MSAA [Jimenez et al., 2011] [SIGGRAPH 2011]. Read More

White Paper: By Doug Binks, Senior Application Engineer, Intel Visual Computing

Dynamic Resolution Rendering

The resolution selection screen has been one of the defining aspects of PC gaming since the birth of 3D games. In this whitepaper and the accompanying sample code, we argue that this no longer needs to be the case; developers can dynamically vary the resolution of their rendering instead of having a static resolution selection. Read More

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Updated: 300+ Free After Effects Tutorials Mega List

After Effects has always been a popular topic for our writers and editors. We thought it would be helpful to list - with direct links to them on our After Effects Channel - the more than 300 different After Effects tutorials we have so far. In this list are After Effects training videos, After Effects hands on tutorials and techniques, and lots of After Effects Quick Tips. All professional quality, and all free! Enjoy! Read More

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Nucoda Film Master turns up the heat on Sky 1 HD's Mad Dogs

Sky 1 and Sky 1HD recently aired four-part drama Mad Dogs with an all-star British male cast including Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm, Marc Warren and Ben Chaplin. Shot on 35mm on location in Majorca last summer, the 4x60 minute series was written by Cris Cole and produced by BAFTA-winning Left Bank Pictures. Read More

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Autodesk extension

Hot off two 'Best in Show' Awards at the 2013 National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) in Las Vegas last month, Autodesk, Inc. (N Read More

Probell Films` real horror

Probell Films is known for their indie films, especially in the (B) Horror genre. Although Maureen "Mo" Whelan and crew are already working on t Read More

NAB 2013: Cineware

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DwaeZEJH0 Time for 3D and 2D again. Read More

NAB 2013: Digieffects for FinalCutPro and more

If you're looking for some of DE's theme-based plugins all in one package, you've got it. Phenomena is only $99. All editors can get Read More

NAB 2013: AJA new drivers support Adobe

Are you going to NAB? If so, you're definitely a video professional. If you're a video pro, then you definitely know about AJA' Read More

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