Film Riot

Film Riot is a YouTube channel that deals with all aspects of filmmaking. If you have not checked them out you seriously should. I have watched hours and hours of their videos and to be honest feel like I have learned more about filmmaking from this YouTube channel than many of my film classes over my four years here.

The videos feature Ryan Connolly, the host, with appearance from his team as they tackle various aspects of professional filmmaking as simply as they can. The videos include the final result of what they tackle, and then through hosted explanation, they explain how they did what they did. They are quite thorough and easy to follow and learn. They also have some DIY videos for making cheap filmmaking gear on a budget. They have a store where they sell a variety of different assets, make gear recommendations, sell merchandise, and more. They are a fantastic and useful channel and I highly recommend you sift through it, you will definitely learn a lot.

Film Riot:

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The work of our peers

Nearly every blog I read is about these professionals who produce movies, games and shows in similar programs as us. I wanted to blog about something different this week but I wasn't sure what....I signed on Facebook today and scrolled through my newsfeed. I saw that Will Gelder posted a video of some rotoscoping work that he has produced.
It is important to acknowledge the people around us and also learn from them. We all have a lot of talented friends and forget that they are easily accessible and may be willing to help us. (which is better than watching a tutorial.)
Below is Will Gelders work:




Our professor Arturo Sinclair also has some work published on the internet that is pretty neat.
Below is his work:

FinalCutKing

In high School when I first started getting into video and editing, I always wondered how they did those special effects and cool muzzle flashes. Thats when I found Zach King and Aaron Benitez making these great action packed videos that would have a link to a tutorial at the end of each video they made. 

Zach King uses final cut pro 7 and goes into the editing process and color correct he would use for each video. 

Aaron Benitez used After Affects for all the SFX he used in the videos. 

These two guys might not be big time SFX artists but they started small and have been an inspiration to me. Now these two guys are working on projects in their industries for a living and to think they started just like everyone else.

limitless

Over the break I saw the movie "Limitless". While I don't really recommend it due to lack of a good story. They do this really cool sequence where the camera is zooming in and moving throughout the city and the people are actually moving it's not just all still photos. so for the motion graphics you should check it out.

Marvel Graphics

I like the motion graphics for the title sequence, using comic book panels and static elements to bring you into the story. There are some good, but I hope by now, recognizable AE/3D effects in this cool trailer.