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The 100 Years of Inspiration from Visual Effects

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:55:02 +0000

Video tour through the history of Special effect.

This short video is a “5th-grader-friendly” tour through the history of special effects marking visualization noteworthy from the films of the past century- from 1900 to 2008.

From the archive;

1900 – The Enchanted Drawing
1903 – The Great Train Robbery
1923 – The Ten Commandments (Silent)
1927 – Sunrise
1933 – King Kong
1939 – The Wizard of Oz
1940 – The Thief of Bagdad
1954 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1956 – Forbidden Planet
1963 – Jason and the Argonauts
1964 – Mary Poppins
1977 – Star Wars
1982 – Tron
1985 – Back to the Future
1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 – The Abyss
1991 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1993 – Jurassic Park
2004 – Spider-Man 2
2005 – King Kong
2006 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
2007 – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
2007 – The Golden Compass
2008 – The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The music track is from “Rods and Cones” the album “Audio” by Blue Man Group.

New Indiana Jones Film-Lucas researching concept

austin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:22:13 +0000

George Lucas has another saga to nurture, referring the nostalgia boom time of “star Wars” days, the 64 year old filmmaker, George Lucas said, ‘The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea. And that series is very research-intensive. So we’re doing research now to see if we can’t come up with another object for him to chase … hopefully we’ll come up with something.’ George Lucas says he’s already identified the one person who can keep the “Indiana Jones” franchise going: Harrison Ford. [ Read More ]

He added “I like when you focus on making movies, you make movies and people go to see them”

George Lucas also plans a live-action “Star Wars” TV series and he’s also looking into re-releasing the six “Star Wars” films using new 3-D technology. [ Mercury News ]

Digitalized Guernica 3D Painting

aftab — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:53:25 +0000

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso brought the Spanish civil war to the world’s attention, Picasso, who was very affected by the aerial attack by Nazi German Luftwaff bombing on Guernica Spain on April 26 1937 which killed several hundred people during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish government commissioned Pablo Picasso to paint a large mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition (the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris), Guernica epitomizes the tragedies of war and human suffering.Take a tour to the history through this Digitalized 3-D video;