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March 24, 2018
17 Trademarks of Wes Anderson’s Idiosyncratic Filmmaking
Thanks to his peculiar brand of cinema, you always know when you’re watching a Wes Anderson movie.
Love him or hate him, director Wes Anderson is one of the few contemporary filmmakers who have an easily recognizable style of filmmaking. In fact, you can’t see Futura font or a carefully arranged symmetrical overhead shot without immediately thinking of films like The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, or Moonrise Kingdom. But why?
Anderson’s many cinematic conventions and stylistic signatures have been studied since he came on the scene back in the late 90s, but with every new film he releases, the conversation surrounding his modus operandi gets reopened and contextualized to include his latest effort. And now that Anderson’s 9th feature film, Isle of Dogs, has officially hit theaters, the team over at ScreenPrism (check out their Patreon page here) has decided to examine the films of Wes Anderson in order to break down exactly what makes them uniquely his.
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 24, 2018
Virtual reality roller coaster ‘The Great Lego Race’ opens in Florida
Virtual reality brings new life to an existing roller coaster with The Great Lego Race, a Mario Kart-style animated blast through a detailed Lego landscape. The new VR attraction just opened in Legoland, Florida.
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Source: Digital Trends VR
March 24, 2018
Illustration Series: Cities of Colours
Illustration Series: Cities of Colours
This Sunday, I will be heading out to Amsterdam to cover another launch for you guys. We will keep you posted! In the meantime, as an ABDZ tradition; it’s always interesting to discover designers or illustrators from the city you are visiting. I stumbled across the work of Sail Ho Studio, a studio all about illustration and motion design based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. We are taking a look at their beautiful illustrative series: Cities of Colours.
City of colors is a journey through six cities to be inspired by their colors, their heritage, their art, and life. And why having just still postcards when we could add life to our illustration? Let that bike ride! Watch the videos to see a full animated version of Amsterdam and London. So, if you could choose, where would you be now?
Credits
- Illustration / Animation: Sail Ho Studio
- Extra Animation: Vincentiu Solomon
- Sound Design: Tommaso Simonetta
More Links
- Learn more about Sail Ho Studio at sailhostudio.com
- Follow Sail Ho Studio on Behance
Illustration
AoiroStudio
Mar 24, 2018
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
March 24, 2018
How to Pull Off the Rolling Transition From the ‘Atlanta’ Season 2 Teaser
The “Rolling Preview” for Season 2 of “Atlanta” was awesome. Here’s how to create that sweet camera rotation effect.
Last month, FX premiered a short, 30-second teaser trailer for the 2nd season of Atlanta, the TV dramedy created by and starring Donald Glover. Why am I bringing up a preview that was released back in February for a season that has already aired its 4th episode? Well, because that preview had a friggin’ awesome “rolling” transition effect that had filmmakers/cinephiles lighting up the video’s YouTube comments section like a very nerdy and kinda small Christmas tree. (7 out of 23 comments ain’t bad, y’all.)
The team over at Cinecom have come up with a way to mimic the effect using a green screen and some masking and keying in post. It’s not a perfect recreation, but it might work for your project.
But before we get to the tutorial, check out the original Atlanta teaser below:
And here’s the Cinecom tutorial:
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 23, 2018
The Unedited Interview: Inko London Dokubo and Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt
Did you know that the stories you hear from us on NPR and our podcast are excerpts of interviews pulled from the StoryCorps Archive? Participants visit one of our recording locations with a friend or family member to record a 40-minute interview with the help of a trained StoryCorps facilitator, or record a conversation using the StoryCorps App. We’re sharing this unedited interview from the StoryCorps Archive with you in its original form.
Regardless of which teams make the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four in San Antonio next weekend, this year’s tournament will be remembered for the emergence of a singular star — one who last played the game competitively more than 80 years ago at a time when by rule only forwards were allowed to shoot the ball. That star is Jean Dolores Schmidt, better known as Sister Jean, the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers’ 98-year-old men’s basketball team chaplain.
Since the start of the tournament, Sister Jean has become a media sensation. Whether unabashedly correcting a reporter who mistakenly referred to her newfound fame as “national” and not “international”, or discussing how the 11th-seed Ramblers latest upset victory which propelled them into the Elite Eight had busted her bracket, Sister Jean has been sought-after by reporters from around the world. But before she catapulted to stardom, in November 2015, Sister Jean sat down for a StoryCorps conversation with former Ramblers basketball player London Dokubo.
Covering in-depth many of the major events in her life, Sister Jean talks about her love of growing up in San Francisco in the 1920s and shares fun family stories about how her parents exchanged her pet dog for a pet monkey who also happened to enjoy morning breakfasts of toast dunked in hot coffee. That monkey, Jerry, was eventually replaced by an alligator. Sister Jean also discusses her journey to becoming a nun and remembers praying to God when she was 8 for guidance about what to do with her life and telling God that being a nun is what she wanted for herself.
After taking vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and discussing the different stops she made in her career and how she and the people around her were affected by major world events, Sister Jean explained how her love of basketball came about when she was 25 years old and teaching at a school in California. While there, she asked the pastor if the kids could participate in sports and he agreed making her coach for basketball, volleyball, softball, ping pong, and yoyo, and launching a love of sports and coaching that continues to this day.
Sister Jean describes how her involvement with the Loyola men’s team began in earnest in 1994 after her retirement from teaching, when the school’s president asked if she would be interested in helping out male and female athletes having a difficult time adjusting to life on campus. Since everyone was doing fine, Sister Jean was then asked if she wanted to become chaplain to the men’s basketball team — a position she remains in today, showing up to all home games in her school colors and custom “Sister Jean” Nike sneakers. While she once sat courtside, she now watches games from higher up, after suffering black eyes and a broken arm in recent years after being hit by volleyballs and a soccer ball.
For the first time since they won the title in 1963 — a game Sister Jean remembers watching on an 11-inch black-and-white TV — the Ramblers are just three wins from another championship and the chance for us all to follow Sister Jean as she is paraded through the streets of Chicago.
All material within the StoryCorps collection is copyrighted by StoryCorps. StoryCorps encourages use of material on this site by educators and students without prior permission, provided appropriate credit is given. This interview has not been fact-checked, and may contain sensitive personal information about living persons.
Source: SNPR Story Corps
March 23, 2018
10 Tips For Using VFX Without Blowing Your Budget
With a little creativity, not only can VFX effects be affordable, but it can even save you money.
Shawn Walsh of Zero Engine was thrown a major curve on Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty when production hit a stumbling block in the third act. “Navy Seals go in with helicopters, but they are these top secret stealth helicopters,” he explained in the SXSW session on leveraging VFX for indie films. There was no way of knowing exactly what the cutting edge government choppers looked like, nor any way to get these secret choppers on set.
“We had to come up with the design of fictional yet real helicopters,” Walsh explained, “Are we going to build a custom copter? No, we don’t know avionics. Will we have to CG these stealth hawks from scratch? It would have exploded the budget. We’re going to have to CG helicopters to make the story work. The third act falls apart without it! So what we did, is we filmed real helicopters, Black Hawks, and we motion-tracked them and CG-replaced them with the fictional copter. The dust was real, the flying was real; the VFX team got something to work with, and they made it work.”
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 23, 2018
Sotheby’s is making homebuying immersive with AR app Curate
Sotheby’s International Realty and its new virtual staging augmented reality app, powered by Rooomy, is called Curate. The app promises to revolutionize both the buying and selling experience for real estate agents and new homeowners alike.
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Source: Digital Trends VR
March 23, 2018
Meet R1, the First Self-Flying 4K Drone
This autonomous drone from Skydio can be flown without expertise.
10 years ago, MIT classmates Adam Bry, Abraham Bacharach, and Matt Donahoe had a great idea. As the drone market was expanding, they wondered: What if we created an autonomous, video-capturing drone? A decade later, their product has come to market.
The R1, developed by the MIT grads’ start-up, Skydio, is the first professional-grade drone that can be flown without expertise. Geared toward “rock climbers, hikers, runners, dancers, or anyone who likes recording themselves while in motion,” according to MIT News, the R1 is equipped with 13 onboard cameras that capture omnidirectional video. The artificial intelligence-powered quadcopter shoots 4K video while mapping its environment in real-time, planning paths and avoiding obstacles in order to capture moving targets.
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 23, 2018
Black Panther’s Danai Gurira for ROGUE Magazine
Black Panther’s Danai Gurira for ROGUE Magazine
I discovered actress Danai Gurira in very popular and successful Marvel movie (for many reasons): Black Panther. In this movie, she is playing Okoye, the head of the Dora Milaje. Nevertheless to say that she was really badass in this role and I was watching an interview about the BTS process of shaving her head. It’s quite a big & bold move for the role and it’s amazing how the work Benjo Arwas just gracefully embrace this beauty. Benjo is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles, California; check out the all-embracing and stunning collection of pictures.
Credits
- Photography: Benjo Arwas
- Directors: Benjo Arwas & Colby Koch
- DP: Chris Koch
- Styling: Jordan Grossman
- Makeup: Agostina @ Xclusive Artists
- Nails: Chelsea King @ Celestine Agency
- Music: PLEASE – HOY LA
- Video Production: TRIBE FEDERATION
More Links
- Learn more about Benjo Arwas at benjoarwas.com
- Follow Benjo on Behance
Photography & Fashion
AoiroStudio
Mar 23, 2018
Source: Abduzeedo Photography
March 22, 2018
Oculus Go and Santa Cruz will have a 72Hz mode for smoother mobile VR
The upcoming Oculus Go and Santa Cruz mobile VR headsets will have 72Hz refresh rate modes for a more fluid experience. Current mobile VR solutions max out at 60Hz, such as the Gear VR headset for Samsung’s smartphones.
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Source: Digital Trends VR