Let Grandma rest in peace

Short, creative publicity film from Argentina, exploiting the codes of special effects cinema with a grand-mother who repeatedly rises from her grave because she’s worried about her unemployed offspring. She’d be worried stiff if she were here.

Rocky the dog is no easy touch

Short film from the Corridor Digital site dedicated to explaining special effects. CAREFUL, this is not for the faint-hearted, there’s a very bloody scene which is precisely the object of the tutorial.

Here it is.

Where’s the dark room?

If you follow the instructions in this video by photographing your screen with a camera set manually on aperture 5,6 and speed 1s, all with a tripod, unusual images invisible to the naked eye will appear.

Those who don’t have a camera to hand can watch this revealing second video

Light Painting
with the Matrix effect

Light Painting combined with the ‘Bullet Time’ effect of the film ‘Matrix’ gives rise to unique and totally fascinating images.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Bullet Time effect, here’s a video explanation. And to learn how to combine Light Painting with this effect….

How to master
the flow of a liquid on video

Here’s an absolutely fabulous effect: by playing on the video speed and the low frequency diffusion, you can ‘choose’ the direction of flow of a liquid.

And now for another example.

The Magic Pump

With minimal resources but tireless creativity, Sheep Films regularly produces little special-effects gems like this one. The English actor-director whom we know only as Dave, is a worthy descendant of Méliès

Take another look at this clever production from last year :« photography with no instructions »