His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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Back when the viral video 3D No Glasses was doing the rounds, I got in touch with the people who made it to try and get an admission of what their intent was. At that time, they said nothing revealing, but today, I received an e-mail with a full explanation. Here is the original video, a making-of clip and their statement on why they made the film in the first place.
We are Jonathan Post, a small post production company based in São Paulo. Our goal is to develop visual effects that can be used in a creative way, and not only just as an effect for its visual appeal. We want to make effects that tell stories, and many times we aim to achieve them in a way that they’re not noticeable.
We also create our own videos, like 3D no Glasses. The viral was completely made at Jonathan Post, from the idea, to the shoot, the visual effects and all the distribution. Launched in January 14th 2011, the video made its way through big internet sites reaching 2 million views in 2 days and almost 5 million in the first month.
Three months ago, while I was studying visual FX for 3D (stereoscopy), I realized that I have a big genetic problem. Whenever I try to blink only one eye at a time, I can only blink the left one. It doesn’t matter how hard I try, I have no individual control of my right eyelid. But Daniel was born with it. He has great control of his eyelid movements.
We also know that everybody hates 3D glasses, so we came up with this joke/solution.Francois was doing a film with us at Jonathan Post. His accent and Personality were perfect for the film, We shot everything in 4K resolution, with the sharpest image we could get with the RED camera, with a big help from the photographer Alexandre Ermel.
To make the FX we came up with a simple solution. We created a 3D face, based on image photometry. We used the 3D face to track all his movements. We projected the film on the face, so we ended up with a steady image of the face. It didn’t matter the face was moving, we always had a steady image. After that, Rafa had a painful editing job to loop all of Francois’ eye-blinking. The final step was the addition of a subtle muscle movement, something between a normal blink and a normal wink.
And now we know. Good work, Jonathan Post.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
