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I'm interested in all aspects of moviemaking: shooting, mixing and camera operating, starting from when the Matrix was released. For 3 years I've been recording some funny, amateur stuff. Now the time has come for more serious work: time for compositing and adding video effects!
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Create Your Own “Private Ryan” Movie Shot – Day 2

Michal Jagiello on Feb 23rd 2009 with 34 comments

On day 2 of this charged tutorial, Michal will try to give you some insights and hints about gun firings, ricochets and keying out soldiers to clone and paste them in to moving footage.
So, needless to say… just LOCK n’ LOAD!

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Create Your Own “Private Ryan” Movie Shot – Day 1

Michal Jagiello on Feb 20th 2009 with 72 comments

You don’t have to be Steven Spielberg, you don’t need millions of dollars, you don’t even need more than one actor to make your own war movie (well, one shot anyway).
In this two day tutorial series, Michal will show you how to create a realistic war movie shot using only one actor and a camera man.
Day 1 will show you: Color correction, realistic camera shake, and bullets hitting the ground on fast footage.
These are just pointers to lead you on your track to making convincing war movie visual effects.
3… 2… 1… FIRE!

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Create a Futuristic Floating Hologram Effect

Michal Jagiello on Jan 19th 2009 with 49 comments

This tutorial will show you how to make a futuristic floating hologram over a cellphone. The techniques included here will help you understand how to track one object to another. The final result is something that may make your indie science-fiction film look better or it may just inspire you to create something new.

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