Here’s a great peak into movie magic at its best. The Steadicam is attached to the camera operator, false walls are used to make room for him to move around the scene. Check out the track moving the chair at 1:08. For more info about the shot and crew check out Matthew Jeppsen’s post over at FreshDV.
Posted by Dennis Bonilla
As if you needed any more reasons to be in awe of Robert Downey Jr., here’s a video of the actor performing a duet with singer Sting. This video was recorded during Sting’s 60th Birthday performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on October 1, 2011.
I was recently watching the movie Oblivion and wondering what scenes in the movie might be entirely 3D-based. Fortunately, UPT friend and short-film director Daniel Thron shared Christopher Nichols‘ 2013 VFX demo reel.
Some friends of ours went to Gettysburg last weekend for some much needed quality time, relaxation and checking out the sites. We live a short (1.5-2 hour) drive from Gettysburg, and decided a visit sounded apropos, given the November 19 anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and the release of “Lincoln” in theaters across of the nation. After a short dive into the Series of Tubes, we learned we could easily fill our Saturday afternoon and evening without too much expense beyond gas so on we went…
So. This exists. It’s a Trossen Robotics hexapod robotics kit. They’re not the cheapest things out there but that doesn’t mean they’re not cool as hell and that I want…
The Nakamura Hammer is my new favorite paper airplane. Here are the instructions I followed to make it. The “Nakamura Lock” which makes this plane so stable in flight is named after Eiji Nakamura, author of Flying Origami.
