Jacob
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Screen-Capture Warehouse
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It’s called Leave Me the White ( LeaveMeTheWhite.com ) and they store countless screen captures from LOTS of films and tv-shows. Including seasons of Battlestar Gallactica, all of Firelfy, comedies like Arrested Development or 30 Rock, films like The Usual Suspects, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fight Club, the list goes on and on and on. The actual amount of images is quite mind-boggling. For a random example, there are over 2,100 images captured from the film The Departed, and between 600-1000 images per episode of Firefly. Wow.
“Why is this relevant?” you may ask…
Well, this can be a great source of inspiration for staging ideas, color keys, lighting concepts, facial expressions, posing, etc.
Random screen capture of screen captures from a random episode of Firefly.
(The above sentence actually makes sense. Honestly.)
I suggest you bookmark it. You never know when you might want to reference a film/show for inspiration. A series of still images forces you to see composition and color far more than when you’re distracted by movement. Note that in the image above there are 10 pages containing over 900 images. It’s almost too much. (almost.)
|Jacob
Awesome childrens book app
2Forget the kids, I want to play with this!
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore iPad App Trailer from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.
Meet the Medic
0Continuing their ‘Meet the ____’ series introducing each of the Team Fortress characters, Valve has released Meet the Medic:
Furthermore, there is a really fun Behind-the-Scenes describing their process, abandoned ideas, unused animatics and layout, and how they landed on the final short. Definitely worth a read. Reading about what ideas were thrown out is fun – but reading about WHY the ideas were thrown out is invaluable. Everyone should use this type of problem solving when making a film. Is it telling the most effective story possible? Is it repeating ideas? Is it wasting time getting to the point? Concepts were thrown out during the making of this short for each of those reasons.
Creativity in the Industry
0The article The Belly of the Whale: Living a Creative Life in the Games Industry from Gamasutra has some valuable insights. Though written specifically about the gaming industry, many of the ideas and principles can be applied much more widely than that. It’s a long article, but a good one. If you have some time I suggest you check it out.
Thanks to Jim for the link.
