Add some flames to your brickfilms! A little fire always helps light up a scene, especially in your legomation creation. Check out this video tutorial to learn how to create a stop-motion Lego fire. This Lego animation technique will show you how to start the fire and keep the fire going. It's perfect for your next brick film masterpiece.
Tim Ferriss shows us how to use chop sticks properly. This was filmed in Saigon, Vietnam. He uses the technique of Asia, rather than the Americanized version. This is from the author of "Four Hour Work Week". Chop stick use is common with many Asian cuisines.
How to pull someone's underwear over their head. This tutorial uses film stills from the movie Casper: A Spirited Beginning to illustrate this classic kids' prank. Pull the underwear up from behind, over the head. It's only an atomic wedgie if it goes over the head! Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for a Snow Scene. This video lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render this snow-covered road landscape picture.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for a Seaport Village. This video lesson was first broadcast over fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render this quaint seaport fishing village landscape picture.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for an Old Oak Tree. This video lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render this oak tree night-time landscape picture.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for an Ocean Liner. This video lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render this ocean liner marine landscape picture.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for a Mountain Lake. This video lesson was first broadcast over fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching lesson and learn how to render a mountain lake landscape.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for a Harbor Scene. This video lesson was first broadcast over fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render a harbor marine landscape.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial of a pair of a horses. This video lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render a bucking bronco Western landscape.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for a grist mill. This video lesson was first broadcast over fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching lesson and learn how to render a grist mill landscape.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial of a pair of Canada Geese. This video lesson was first broadcast over fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render a Canadian goose landscape picture.
Bollywood dance is any dance from an Indian film. These dances have traditional Indian influences mixed with hip hop moves. Bollywood dancing is a fun way to get a great workout. Learn the easy dance steps and burn off some excess calories at the same time with this how to video.
See how to use the depth of field adapter, the Letus Extreme, for your digital camcorders. Also see 35mm adapters for your digital cameras. Great for that professional look you need in your film.
This video is for those newer to poi: A poi lesson on turning with the 3-beat weaves. It is worth watching even if you can do the move, as it will help you teach it to others. Enjoy! : This is filmed in a cool artist space in Berlin.
Tomi shows you home to create that cool bullet ricochet dust effect for your low budget indie film.
Pull this prank your co-workers or fellow computer geeks! Make a confetti bomb out of a 35mm film canister.
Also known as the Line of Action, the 180 Degree Rule is an important fundamental to communicating the action through careful camera positioning. Jennifer O'Rourke walks us through it.
Jarret Waldman explains a simple Krav Maga sweep technique
Krav Maga Worldwide Sherman Oaks Human Weapon Jarret Waldman teaching defense for gun to the head while kneeling executioner style.
A quick and easy way to achieve the effect of fountains of the red stuff flowing forth from a zombie-bitten neck. Your film will look so real, for what it's worth, that nobody can deny your greatness.
This film explains how to sew a digital display for use as a car accessory. It was created by our very own Steve Spencer as part of a competition that Scion held called "Craft My Ride." Steve has been working on this during nights and weekends and its pretty fun stuff. He used http://www.sensables.com authoring tools (beta version) to design the animation.
Alan K. from Indy Mogul shows you how to create a your own film production setup including a camera, tripod, and recording media for under $250. Of course this assumes you already have a computer for editing.
Nick and the Playpoi guys filmed a poi lesson on 5-beat weaves in Austria, including musings on 7 and 9-beat weaves and the idea of winding and unwinding.
When it comes to filmmaking, especially cinematography, indie filmmakers need to acquire a DIY sensibility in order to get their films made, because film equipment is nowhere near cheap. But DIY is.
This video shows you how to dry-mount a painting done on rice paper with silicone release paper. This method is to transfer the silicon adhesive film to the backing material first, then take the release paper off and mount the painting on. Artist, Henry Li gives you everything you need to know to properly mount your beautiful painting on the silicone to transfer as you please.
If you’re into cinematography try creating your own dolly camera platform to get those seamless tracking shots. This is a fun project that will allow you to take your film to the next level, or at least get the shot you want.
An RPG is a rocket propelled grenade, which is a common tool for enemy combatants in Iraq these days. If you need to have an RPG for your action war movie, then it's best to build your own prop one, since RPG's aren't exactly legal. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make a prop RPG.
Filmmakers beware... or more importantly, cinematographers beware... boring setups and unpleasing camera tricks can ruin a movie. Check out this helpful video tip from Focal Point Technologies on how to use zoom and dolly effects in your film.
Check out this video from Chemical Reaction Tutorials (CRTutorials). If you love filmmaking, prop making, editing and everything else that goes along with making movies, then you'll want to see what Adam has to say about gauntlets.
Check out this video from Chemical Reaction Tutorials (CRTutorials). If you love filmmaking, prop making, editing and everything else that goes along with making movies, then you'll want to see what Adam has to say about ice hands.
This dance tutorial teaches you how to do swing dance routines from great classic films. The moves in this tutorial are based on the 1929 film short "After Seben." Footage is of Shorty George Snowden and his partner, sometimes credited as Pauline Morse, at other times identified as Big Bea. The music is by Chick Webb and his orchestra.
This look may take a little longer, but is well worth it. Try combining these colors to create a timeless look. Christmas time or a night out on the town, this look works for any time of the year.
When Apple acquired the popular Workflow app in 2017, many were worried that it would either get replaced with something much worse, or just disappear entirely. Thankfully, Apple put these concerns to rest with the launch of Shortcuts. In iOS 13, Shortcuts is becoming more powerful than ever, providing functionality on the iPhone that the original Workflow team could only dream of.
All those Apple commercials encouraging people to use their iPhones to make their smartphone movies look amazing, but how can you achieve some of the same looks? That's the question many often ask after plunking down over $1,000 for a brand new iPhone, shooting some video, and getting somewhat mediocre results.
Fans of the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man have yet another way to experience the web-slinger in augmented reality.
The new film Brightburn, a horror take on the superhero genre produced by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, debuted in theaters on Friday, and it has some promotional backing from Snapchat to drive ticket sales.
The potential of augmented reality is often shown in science fiction movies, but a new exhibit marries the genre with very real-world AR technology, to great effect.
Despite less than glowing reviews from critics, the latest installment from the Harry Potter spinoff movie series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is winning at the box office.
Venom, the latest in a long list of comic book characters to headline its own movie, is known by comic book fans by his catchphrase, "We are Venom."
