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Questions about styles used through films and shows.

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Is Hulk a pure CGI being?

Computer artists start by developing a hand drawing of a character, and places like ILM will sometimes create small clay figures as references. These are then passed to the modeling artists who conve …
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Was this movie the first usage of screen projection?

"The Forbidden Planet" came out in 1956, and there is a particular visual effects shot in the movie that was ground breaking at the time. Projecting live action onto a painted background, and I've alw …
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The hobbit, how is it possible that 48 FPS is better than 24 FPS

There is a huge difference in the feeling of the film based upon the Frames Per Second it was shot in. There are a number of films that were shot using a digital camera, but at a higher 30FPS that we …
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Why is it a common trend to pan the camera past an object then back to it?

This has to do with communicating to the viewer what the intended subject is, when the subject may be ambiguous among other things. A hunter is searching for his prey. A red bird sitting in an apple …
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Is the brain sequence similar to reality or not?

I saw a video on the Discovery Channel where a Doctor was performing hip surgery. He used a DeWalt battery powered drill during the operation. I don't remember if it was wrapped in plastic or not, but …
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Why do films have more cuts than they did 20 years ago?

I want to disagree with the assumption that the number of cuts in a film has increased over the last 20 years. To say the number of edits has increased is to also say that film techniques have also c …
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