This full color book provides simple and effective special effects techniques that can be mastered by the amateur filmmaker. Work smart, play safe, and create interesting special effects that will help your film or video project look like a million bucks.
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This book is a great general purpose resource of practical and visual effects for the beginning filmmaker -- Eric Chauvin, Visual Effects Artist for The Empire Strikes Back, War of the Worlds.
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Slone has been an independent filmmaker for over 12 years and has worked on small lindependent movies, as well as being a part of the major motion picture industry.
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22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Special Effects: How to Create a Hollywood Film Look on a Home Budget (Paperback)
I recommend this bok for those who are too lazy to search online and find many of these tips he has in this book. If you have a basic knowledge of Final Cut, After Effects, and similar software, then you can do a lot of the digital effects. Some of the effects it discusses is the Star Wars lightsaber light, gun flashes, people disappearing, and rain. Most of this stuff if you've been making movies for a while you have discovered on your own. The reason I'm giving it the score I'm giving it, is because there are going to be many people who have never tried this stuff before and will love to have one book that has it all. But like I said, if you do a general search online you will find little tutorials that will tell you how to do the effects in this book. So you can save yourself the $30. No wonder they don't have a preview of this book yet, if they did I would have saved the money. I'm going to help you out.
PHYSICAL EFFECTS Smoke and Dry Ice Machines Snow Rain Fake Glass People Dissappearing Prop Guns Bullet Hits: Paintball Shots Models and Miniatures Stage Blood Arrow Hitting on Object DIGITAL EFFECTS Digital Software Blue/Green Screens Teleporter Effect Gun Flashes Light Swords Stock Footage FXhome BlackPool Studio DvGarage HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOME STUDIO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CONCLUSION
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Well worth your time if you are looking to learn special effects.,
This review is from: Special Effects: How to Create a Hollywood Film Look on a Home Budget (Paperback)
I found this book to be useful and informative. It does exactly what it advertises. Cool special effects that anyone can do to enhance their films. The tips and tricks provided, along with the discussions regarding what software is use, make starting the process quick and easy. Maybe I could go on the internet and find some of these tricks, but I like the fact that the info I need is all in one convient book. I've sent many fruitless hours hunting for a specific program to do a specific task, only to find that what I've found didn't do the job. I appreciate the author's collection and recommendation of what's working for him. Also, I really liked that the author walks you through the process, step by step, helping you get the desired result. Over all, a great buy.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Special Effects - a good resource to get you started,
This review is from: Special Effects: How to Create a Hollywood Film Look on a Home Budget (Paperback)
A couple of years ago I started doing more film work for my job. I have no real budget for most of the projects. The "on a home studio budget" part was what most intrigued me. Though the author does refer you to some specific companies (stage craft and software), most of what he recommends for his general sampling of special effects seems pretty inexpensive and gave me a good starting point for finding what I need. A quick look through the book also sparked my imagination on a few possibilities I had not previously considered.
I have worked with imaging software for a long time so it didn't take long for me to become pretty adept at the digital end of simple effects. I also have some stage experience so I knew how to handle some basic physical effects as well. While the book is mostly pretty basic stuff ("for the beginning filmmaker or the filmmaker who is creating a movie on a very low budget"), I was looking for something that could help me beef up my projects and have found this to be a helpful resource so far. The author's language is casual-- very "friendly" which surprised me a little (especially for a book like this). But, in all, I appreciated that he didn't write like I was his technical peer, nor did he write down to me because I'm not. Microfilmmaker has a good article to read before you buy. It gives you a good idea of what the book is about--a fairly accurate representation. I found it helpful.
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