Make Your Own Planet Using Practical Special Effects
Make Your Own Planet Using Practical Special Effects Have you ever seen a science fiction classic and asked yourself, how did they create amazing planetary special effects without using CGI? Or is it still possible to do so today? Joey Shanks, a special effects artist living in North Carolina, cr...
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Crowfunder Shout Out | TidyLoop
Crowd Funder Shout Out ! TidyLoop Today's shout out goes to the TidyLoop campaign. TidyLoop is in the final stages of mass producing multi-purpose reusable plastic foam ties, which I think will be an excellent tool for video production crews. Watch the promotional video and you can see how easy ...
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How To Make Your Own Sound Room
Gross, Disgusting, Gloopy, Awesome Sound Effects The new sound pack has finally arrived and I got to tell you we had a blast doing the sound recording. What we did was we wanted to record organic noises from food you can find at your local grocery store and smash them up in our office kitchen nea...
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Why DIY Camera Rigs Impress Us
This isn’t low budget filmmaking, this is tactical filmmaking I always appreciate the sight of someone’s creativity. I found this image of a DIY camera rig online the other day and uploaded it to our company Facebook page because I thought it would give everyone a good laugh. However,...
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5 Things We Want To Happen In The Video Production Industry
The fallout from NAB 2016 is soon diminishing and here are some finals thoughts of the experience and 5 things we want to see happen to the video production and film industry improve upon. 1. Software Updates Coming back from NAB has put into perspective the future of video software that we as v...
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Get ready to shoot in 360
What would you like to see in a 360 video? The demand for a virtual reality experience in entertainment is on the rise and 360 cameras are becoming more affordable. Cameras with wide-angled lens are seamlessly shooting in 4k and 6K high resolution video, bringing the viewer to a whole new level o...
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Using The Split Focus Diopter Effect
Using The Split Focus Diopter Effect Have you ever wanted to have two subjects focused in camera but at two different depths of field? Well it’s actually an old trick called the Split Focus Diopter Effect. Here’s a video shot by Shanks FX who explains how to use this effect to enhance...
Read MoreUber Super Duper Monday
Cinema Spice has always encouraged content creation from its fan’s and wishes to do the same for 2016. Mondays are now going to change because we want all you visual effects artists and filmmakers out there to take on our new challenge of using Adobe After Effects in your next projects. We ...
Read MoreYouTube Awards
It has finally arrived!!! YouTube has finally awarded me my Silver Button for achieving 100,000 subscribers. When I started out making these After Effects tutorials, I didn’t intend to start a YouTube channel. I was making these videos for my students in 2009 when I was teaching at Brigham...
Read MoreLlama Nation Premieres in the Omaha Film Festival
Llama Nation: The Documentary premieres on March 10 at the Omaha Film Festival in Omaha Nebraska. We are ecstatic for this premiere because not only did we do the motion graphics for the the project, but one of our own, Aaron Allsop, has been producing and editing it over the past two years. The ...
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