Jonathan Fowler
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After Effects Tutorial: Random Binary
June 12, 2010 - 11:27 pm
Tags: After Effects, Animation, Binary, Computer, Editing, Fluctuating, Graphics, Jonathan Fowler, Jonathan's Work, Matrix, Postproduction, Randomized Binary Code, Tip, Tutorial, VFX, Visual Effects
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In this quick tutorial/tip, I show you how to animate strings of binary code so that the values fluctuate randomly. The effect is relatively simple, but you have to dig a bit into After Effects before you get to the right parameters.
[HD version available on Vimeo or YouTube.]
1 Great Concept, 4 Days of Shooting, 8 Months of Post: Nuit Blanche
May 14, 2010 - 1:12 pm
Tags: 3D, After Effects, Arev Manoukian, Car Crash, Compositing, Editing, High Speed, Maya, Nuit Blanche, Photron APX, Post-Production, Shattered Glass, Short-Form, slo-mo, slow motion, Video
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Filmmaker Arev Manoukian combined all of the right elements to make his amazing short, Nuit Blanche. From Wired:
For Arev Manoukian, capturing the live action for his elegant short film Nuit Blanche came easy: He filmed two principal actors in four days on a green-screen soundstage in Toronto.
The hard part happened over the next [...]
Tutorial: “The Kid Stays in the Picture” Effect Using Photoshop and Motion
April 8, 2010 - 5:08 pm
Tags: 2 1/2 D, 2.5D, 3D, After Effects, Animation, Apple Motion, Digital Effects, Documentary, Editing, Graphics, Jonathan's Work, Ken Burns, Photoshop, Post-Production, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Tutorial, Video
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In this tutorial I show you how to create the so-called “The Kid Stays in the Picture” effect (sometimes referred to as the 2.5D effect). The idea is to separate a still image into distinct layers, move those layers in respect to the Z-axis, then animate movement on those layers to give the impression of [...]
Oscar Nominated Documentaries Cut On Final Cut Pro
March 6, 2010 - 9:06 pm
Tags: 2010 Academy Awards, Apple, Burma VJ, China's Unnatural Disaster, Documentary, Editing, Final Cut Pro, Food Inc., Macworld, Music by Prudence, NLE, Oscars, Post-Production, Rabbit à la Berlin, The Cove, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, The Last Truck, The Most Dangerous Man in the World, Video, Which Way Home
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A recent Macworld article points out that 9 out of the 10 documentaries nominated for the 2010 Academy Awards were edited using Final Cut Pro… pretty impressive, considering that the first version of FCP was released only twelve years ago. (The exception, Burma VJ, was cut on an Avid). From the article:
Apple’s PR rep put [...]
‘The Virtual Revolution’: BBC’s Collaborative Web Documentary
February 15, 2010 - 3:45 pm
Tags: 3D, 3d Documentary Explorer, BBC, Collaborative, Documentary, Interactivity, New Media, Open Source, The Virtual Revolution, Video
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From the BBC, regarding The Virtual Revolution, their collaborative documentary about the web:
It was a radical change for BBC documentary making – an open and collaborative production, which asked the web audience to debate programme themes, suggest and send questions for interviewees, watch and comment on interview and graphics clips, and download clips for personal [...]
“Cascading Effects” – A documentary on climate change in the Pacific Northwest (Part 2)
January 31, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Tags: Cascading Effects, Climate Change, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Global Warming, Jim Tharp, Jonathan's Work, Mount Rainier National Park, National Parks, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Science Filmmaking, Scott Wiessinger, Video, Washington
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Following up on my previous post… here is Part 2 (of 2) of Cascading Effects.
“Cascading Effects” – A documentary on climate change in the Pacific Northwest
January 18, 2010 - 3:37 pm
Tags: Cascading Effects, Climate Change, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Global Warming, Jim Tharp, Jonathan's Work, Mount Rainier National Park, National Parks, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, Pacific Northwest, Science Filmmaking, Scott Wiessinger, Video
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I co-shot this piece – a project produced by fellow friend, filmmaker, shooter, and producer, Jim Tharp. A synopsis from Jim:
[Cascading Effects examines] the sublime landscapes of North Cascades, Mount Rainier, and Olympic National Parks, researchers shed light on emerging indications that climate change is real and predict how warming temperatures will affect the natural [...]
“FilmFellas” Webisodes: Round-Table Discussions With Filmmakers
December 28, 2009 - 7:36 pm
Tags: Digital Media, Director of Photography, FilmFellas, Filmmaking, Jens Bogehegn, New Media, Philip Bloom, Robert Primes, Trent Opaloch, Webisode, Zacuto
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The folks at Zacuto have been producing FilmFellas, a “webisodic series” featuring round-table discussions with filmmakers of all variety, from novice to seasoned professional. The clip above is the first segment of the “DP Series” Cast (Philip Bloom, Trent Opaloch, Jens Bogehegn, and Robert Primes, ASC).
For anyone in the film industry, I highly recommend having [...]
