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Learn How to Create Practical Special Effects on a Budget with Shanks FX
With the advancement of computer generated animation, many effects are no longer done on set where safety and cost are priorities (though it seems CGI ends up costing just as much, if not more). I...
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Creating the Cosmos with Household Items; Shanks FX's Practical Approach
You can make pretty much anything with visual effects software: other worlds, new creatures, even sharknadoes. With so much creative power at our digital fingertips, it’s easy to forget the incredible...
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Can You Tell the Difference? Film & Digital Go Head to Head in This Stop...
“Which looks better: film or digital?” It’s one of those questions that can’t really be answered, because every filmmaker has different tastes and opinions, but Joey Shanks (you might know him from his...
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Create In-Camera VFX the Old Fashioned (But Awesome) Way, Through Front...
Since green screens and blue screens are so available and easy to use, the first method a filmmaker thinks of for obtaining visual effects isn’t often front screen projection. But, we’ve actually seen...
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Unorthodox DIY Film Studio Ideas That Are Also Ridiculously Cheap & Easy
Just because you don’t have a whole lot of cash or space doesn’t mean that you can’t have a highly functional studio. In this video by DIY special effects guru Joey Shanks, we’re taken inside his...
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Breathe Life into Your Ghosts... Literally: How to Capture DIY Hologram FX...
Did anyone else lose complete emotional control of themselves when they saw the Tupac “hologram” perform at Coachella? Just me? Okay. One of the coolest things about that performance was the fact that...
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Joey Shanks Shows Us Some Practical DIY Solutions for Projection Mapping on a...
We’ve seen incredible pieces of art that have used projection mapping, but when Bot & Dolly showed the world its video entitled Box, it really hit home how this technique could be used in feature...
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Flashlights & Magnifying Glasses: The Dirt Cheap DIY Approach to 3-Point...
Lighting plays a huge role in making a film look aesthetically pleasing and cinematic, and though lighting kits can be expensive, there are always DIY workarounds to keep costs down. But, could you...
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