Sometimes the real visual effects are in editing. When it comes to visual effects, computers are great and can help us do a lot of things, from adding a few extra bodies to a crowd to creating worlds and creatures that don't exist in real life. However, we haven't always had powerful machines and software to do these things for us. We talk about CGI so much that we forget that some of the best effects can be done (and have been done) through visual trickery and sheer gumption. Sometimes it's not what you show the audience, but what you don't show them. Sometimes the best cuts are a special effect on their own. In this video, director David F. Sandberg, a.k.a. ponysmasher, goes over a bunch of ways you can create sweet effects using a few editing tricks, not only saving you money but allowing you to put things in your film that you might've thought were only possible with CGI. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 14 September, 2020