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The folks at Corridor Digital do entertaining short films that make clever use of visual effects, as for example here: Link: https://youtu.be/f6-QHtg_u9k by … Continue reading
Category Archives: Digital video and computer images
Here are a couple of videos from a visual effects artist at the YouTube channel Corridor (formerly Corridor Digital), which features a series of frequently excellent short films. This comes from their secondary channel Corridor Crew, with behind-the-scenes making-of stuff … Continue reading
How did I not know about this before? Just over ten years ago the Japanese company Crypton Future Media released computer software that can be used to generate a female singing voice, originally in Japanese and later in English and … Continue reading
Here’s the latest video from the folks at Corridor Digital: Link: https://youtu.be/jAKpy9oJ8Qc They’ve been producing clever stuff like this for years on their YouTube channel, with a parallel channel called Sam and Niko that shows how they create their stuff. … Continue reading
Wow: Link: https://youtu.be/5Zn0rlAHaMI by … Continue reading
Over the past six months or so I’ve heard a few mentions of this film, all of them reasonably favorable, so I finally decided to watch it. What we have here is a half-hour-long, intentionally over-the-top parody of 1980s Hollywood … Continue reading
As you might guess from the title, this post is mainly of interest to people involved in digital video, and it’s fairly technical, but experience suggests some people out there will find it interesting, so here goes. If you have … Continue reading
Blender is excellent software for creating computer-generated images, animations, and special effects. Remarkably, it’s also free and open source. (It can be downloaded here for various operating systems.) Here are two recent short animated films (combined running time under six … Continue reading
An artist named Dirk Loechel has gone to the trouble of creating a massive chart showing dozens of spaceships from print, television, and motion picture science fiction, all pictured at the same scale. In a box at the top, barely … Continue reading
Just recently a friend of mine complained that overuse of computer-generated visual effects have ruined movies. Here’s an interesting response to that: Link: https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24 In brief, the problem isn’t the effects, it’s the writing. Meanwhile, today’s digital effects are often … Continue reading