Lost Knowledge: Magic Lanterns
A look at the 17th century precursor to the slide, and then movie, projector, magic lanterns.
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Intern’s Corner: How to photograph your DIY project
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. Part 1. Setting up a background for your project. By Ed Troxell, photo intern As a DIYer, you share your projects to show off your expertise and to help […]
The city at night is made of light
Tokyo/Glow is a short film, written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon, about the little glowing guy from a cross-walk sign who jumps down from the sign, at night, and wanders around Tokyo gawking at all the lights. I don’t think there are any CG effects. The film’s amazing look was achieved by combining a real actor in a custom glow-suit with a bunch of photographic hi-jinks: stop-motion, time-lapse, long exposure…did I miss anything?
‘Reverspective’ optical illusion 3D paintings
Patrick Hughes is a British artist who coined the term ‘reverspective’ to describe his technique of painting a dimensional surface to create an exaggerated 3D effect in his work. The gimmick (which reminds me a lot of the “Hollow Face” optical illusion) combines foreshortening and the fact that his paintings really do extend into the third dimension–just not as much as it seems. If you can’t see one in person, video really helps to understand the effect. Besides the one above, from Flickr user NAME, there’s a professionally-produced Flash video at Hughes’ website. [via Neatorama]
DIY LADIG cutout bounce card
Last month at MacWorld I stopped by the LADIG booth to see what all the fuss was about. Making my way through the swarm of DSLR toting macheads I finally got to the booth to find beaming LADIG members handing out these fantastic cutout bounce cards.
DIY special effects roundup
In honor of DIY Movie Making Month, I’ve been digging through the archives to de-blog some special-effects-related oldies-but-goodies from months past. Click on in!
How-To: Build a cheap radial camera dolly
On this episode of Backyard FX, on Indy Mogul, as they continue to audition new hosts, Dave Knop shows how to create a super low-cost radial dolly. How to make a Radial Dolly : Backyard FX
