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Today our sister site Audiotuts released a Premium tutorial where Audiotuts’ Jonah Guelzo, and AEtuts editor Adam Everett Miller team up to show you how to produce your own Hollywood style action movie sound effects.
With just a short grocery shopping and the willingness to get a little messy with some produce, Jonah and Adam will give you the tools and techniques you need to create your own punches, whooshes, bone breaks and more!
You can check out some of Jonah’s sounds at AudioJungle.net.
Have you ever been to a sporting event and seen a “noise meter” appear on the big screen? Even though it is rarely ever an actual functioning noise meter, it always gets the crowd riled up. So let’s take it to the next level and really give them an animation to cheer for!
You can view Part 1 here. In this Part 2 of the tutorial, we will begin the destruction! We will focus mainly on creating the shattered glass effect, and finish off with some stock footage elements and camera shake.
There are some tutorials out there that show you how to animate EQ bands. But most of them are far too complex and do not achieve a very desirable look. I will show you a simple way to create this animation without using any audio files to drive the animation, and without using overly-complicated expressions.
Let the destruction begin!”
File size 172MB
Claire Latchem — aka Superfex — is an Illustrator and designer from South West of England. Claire says, character design, animation, model making, vector and tattoo design influence her work greatly. She also enjoys exploring vivid color palettes and different line weights. Her style of illustration is cute, energetic and playful. Read more about Superfex at the jump.
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In today’s Premium video tutorial, Audiotuts+’ Jonah Guelzo, and Aetuts+ editor Adam Miller team up to show you how to produce your own Hollywood style action movie sound effects.
To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Premium, read this. To take a peek inside this tutorial, hit the jump!
With just a short grocery shopping and the willingness to get a little messy with some produce, Jonah and Adam will give you the tools and techniques you need to create your own punches, whooshes, bone breaks and more!
You can check out some of Jonah’s sounds at AudioJungle.net. If you prefer not to buy your own vegetables, you can purchase the sound effects produced in this tutorial there real soon.
Here is a preview of the video:
Premium subscribers can watch the full video in the members area.
The movies have always been one of the great escapes for humanity. A source of entertainment, stress relief, and most importantly of all, art. Every person appreciates different qualities of a movie in different ways, these days people are increasingly appreciating visual effects and movie based art.
The purpose of this article will be to touch on the masterminds behind the visual effects in movies. Its impossible to get everyone, so I’ve selected a mixture of well known artists and more obscure artists in the move industry. Because some of these artists have worked on tons of movies, I’m going to be discussing the outstanding contributions of each artist to one film that they helped to become a visual masterpiece.
Michael Kutsche’s bio describes him as "an award-winning German artist based in Los Angeles, California. He is aself taught artist who works both in traditional and digital media. His work is best described as an astoundingly lifelike depiction of parallel realities, populated by odd characters reminiscent of movies, comics but also Flemish Renaissance Painting."
One thing is for sure, his artistic vision is immense and his technical ability is mind-blowing. Michael worked with Tim Burton and Sony Imageworks to do character illustrations for the movie alice in wonderland. He created the character concept art for all of the main characters within the movie, real and animated. The level of detail within these character illustrations is so incredible that the final look of the characters within the actual movie is only slightly different. This was Michael’s first big movie industry job to, which makes it even more impressive.
Dylan Cole has become somewhat of a legend amongst CG networks and in the movie art industry. His work has headlined films as such Avatar, I robot, Alice And Wonderland, and Superman. One of his most standout films is definitely Lord Of The Rings, the most impressive thing is that he had only been working professionally for 1 year until he got the job to matte paint for Lord Of The Rings. Anything Dylan Cole does has an unbelievable level of technical realism.
Cole stated in an interview with CG-node that he spent 8 months off and on working on his Mordor painting, which in terms of technical skill is one of his most impressive works to date. The scale, perspective, atmosphere, and lighting are all so realistic you actually feel as if you are in Mordor. Coles consistent attention to realistic detail in unrealistic scenes makes him one of the best in the industry.
Dusso is one of the most experienced matte painters in the industry, having been a VFX artist for over 10 years. His work hasn’t received the same sort of public attention that Dylan Cole’s has, but it is still equally if not more impressive. His work in the third episode of star wars is truly incredible. For the movie, Dusso created a myriad of illustrations (over 100) to be used for VFX revisualization and production. In addition to his movie work Dusso has also done his fair share of production work for T.V spots.
Shown below are some of Dussos paintings for Star wars, which includes one of his cycloramas. A cyclorama is a horizontally based matte painting that supports multiple camera angles and is created to allow seamless 360 degree coverage. The painting shown below was created at over 25,000 pixels in width.
Feng Zhu is not your typical movie artist. If I had to pick one reason to really justify that claim, its that he has his own design school. Feng has been working in the field of VFX for over 11 years and has created a huge name for himself. He was one of the first artists to begin teaching at the Gnomon School Of Visual Effects. Feng has worked with some of the best directors in the world, such as James Cameron, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg.
The teaching Feng did at the Gnomon institute was received so well that it inspired him to start up his own specialized design school in Singapore, called the Feng Zhu School Of Design. The school has become an Asian landmark for visual effects artists, mainly because it is so rare to find this sort of specialized education offered in the region that it is.
Michael Bay noticed Feng Zhu when he was teaching at Gnomon, and hired him to work on the Transformers movie. Below are some of the illustrations that Feng Zhu and Michael Bay completed for the initial Transformers movie.
Scott Patton is relatively new to the field of concept art, but his work doesn’t show it at all. Patton has only been the field for 5 years, and has already worked on some truly astounding projects. Patton initially started as a make up-effects artist in 1990, but painted and sculpted on the side. Patton stayed in this field of the industry for some time until he began to notice how much shorter production schedules were becoming. This eventually led him to stumble upon Zbrush in 2005, and into the field of concept art.
After sending out his resume to a few places, Patton received his first job, to work on Jim Cameron’s Avatar. Patton’s studio was tasked with creating the Na’Vi people, Viper Wolf and Banshee head. The 3D work Patton did on the Na’Vi people is something on an entirely different level than anyone would have expected for his first concept job. Shown Below are some of character designs and a screenshot of a finalized scene with Jake and Neytiri.
I don’t think this would be a proper article without mentioning at least one Animated film, so I’ve chosen Noboru Yoshida of Ponyo. One could also argue that Hayao Miyazaki deserves the feature more but he was the director/screenwriter for this film. Ponyo was a film that artistically surpassed all of the previous Miyazaki-Yoshida collaboration movies. (Howls Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, etc.)
The film features crisp animation with incredibly rich and detailed visuals. If you haven’t seen Ponyo yet and are an artist its worth seeing simply for its visual success as a animated movie. There wasn’t a lot of backstory about Yoshida’s process and work as an art director for Ponyo or info on him in general, but he’s won several art direction awards along his career, one of those was for Ponyo. Yoshida has also worked closely with Miyazaki on his other films, so its safe to say he played an important role in the art aspect of Ponyo and should be commended for the artistic quality the film showed.
Reading and seeing all of this may be a little overwhelming at first, but don’t underestimate yourself! One thing that all of the aforementioned artists share in common is that that all started as small fish, and worked their way up the food chain. If theres anything you should take from this article, its that a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck always leads to great things. One great tip that I have learned across the years is to always reach out and try and get in touch with artists that inspire you. Don’t be afraid just because they are successful, as mentioned before, everyone has to start off somewhere. If your looking to jump start your move into the industry, I would recommend checking out the educational videos at the The Gnomon Workshop and getting an account set up at CG Society
Some CGI software worth mentioning would also include: Maya, 3DSMax, Cinema 4D & Cinema 4D Bodypaint, Zbrush, Vue, and Mental Ray
In this article we briefly touched upon some of the top VFX artists within this massive industry. If anything you just read peaked your interest and you are a digital artist, I urge you to dig deeper into the field, and definitely check out CGsociety/Gnomon. Although it is a tough industry to get/stay in, I don’t think any VFX movie artists will be complaining about their jobs any time soon.
Mr Osborne’s announcement comes after months of negotiations Chancellor George Osborne is preparing to reveal the biggest programme of cuts in the UK for decades, in his long-awaited spending review.
Average budget reductions of 25% to most Whitehall departments are expected alongside welfare cuts, following months of negotiations with ministers.
Reports suggest nearly 500,000 public sector jobs will go by 2014-15.
On Tuesday 8% cuts to the defence budget were outlined separately in the strategic defence review.
Overall 42,000 jobs – in the Ministry of Defence and in the armed forces – are to go by 2015.
On Wednesday Mr Osborne will outline cuts in other departments which could range between 25% and 40% – with the exception of health and international development – in addition to welfare cuts.
Mr Osborne has already announced plans to stop child benefit payments to higher rate taxpayers.
There had been reports it could be cut altogether for children once they reach the age of 16, rather than 18 as at present, but sources have told the BBC that will not happen.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander was photographed carrying the spending review on Tuesday – two pages of which were visible to photographers. It stated that tackling the deficit was “unavoidable” and there would be an “inevitable impact” on state workers.
While it said the wage freeze and flexibility over hours would help minimise redundancies, it suggested a forecast that there would be 490,000 fewer public sector workers by 2014-15 had been adopted by the government.
Danny Alexander’s documents suggested a 490,000 cut the public sector workforce by 2014-15 Thousands of protesters gathered in Westminster on Tuesday to lobby MPs ahead of the announcement. Dave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison union, said the coalition government was “taking a chainsaw to our public services … not because of a deficit, but because of an ideology”.
The chancellor and Prime Minister David Cameron finalised the spending review package in a series of meetings with deputy PM Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander at Chequers at the weekend.
It follows lengthy negotiations with cabinet colleagues over the summer.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Osborne would outline percentage cuts in certain departments and there could be some illustrations of projects that have had to be abandoned and details of overall numbers of prison places to be cut.
But he said details of which specific jobs and services could be axed were unlikely.
The document Mr Alexander had been photographed with had shown that if there were voluntary agreements on public sector pay and hours, job losses could be reduced.
Further speculation suggested the BBC might be made to cover the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s – currently covered by the government – but it is understood this will not happen.
Instead it has emerged the BBC licence fee will be frozen for the next six years – and the corporation is to take over the cost of the World Service, currently funded by the Foreign Office, and the Welsh language TV channel S4C.
Unions held a mass rally ahead of the Spending Review announcements There have been several reports that winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and bus passes for the elderly could be curtailed – David Cameron has said he wants to stand by his “very clear promise” during the election campaign, in which he pledged that a Conservative government would keep all three.
The BBC understands that the schools budget in England will be spared large cuts but the social housing budget in England is to be halved and organisations representing rank-and-file police officers fear thousands of jobs will go.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has already confirmed a £30bn 10-mile barrage across the Severn estuary, intended to generate renewable electricity, has been axed on the grounds of cost.
But Mr Osborne has pledged funding for big infrastructure projects like London’s Crossrail project and the Mersey Gateway road bridge between Runcorn and Widnes – as well as the Synchotron scientific facility in Oxfordshire.
Deputy PM Nick Clegg told Lib Dem MPs on Tuesday that the spending review has involved “difficult decisions” but that it “provides the best evidence yet of why we are in government”.
He said the decisions taken were the right ones “to build a fairer and more liberal Britain”.
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Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody sues the producers of a thriller for more than $2m (£1.3m), claiming he has not been fully paid.
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Universities say that cuts will switch the costs of higher education from the state to students Universities in England are preparing for cuts of more than £4bn in the government’s Spending Review – with deep reductions in teaching budgets.
Universities UK has warned of “misplaced and mistimed cuts”, with expected cuts of about £3bn for teaching and £1bn for research.
Schools have been promised that front-line spending will be increased.
But there have been warnings of cuts to support services and changes to funding streams that supplement school budgets.
There are also expected to be shake-ups for education maintenance allowances and Sure Start early years projects.
Universities UK president Steve Smith said cuts of £4bn would account for the biggest change in higher education for more than 40 years – and would mean withdrawing state funding for teaching in many subjects.
A £3bn reduction in funding would represent the loss of about three-quarters of the teaching budget.
Lord Browne’s review last week recommended a sharp increase in tuition fees – but universities have been angered that the extra funding from fees look set to be used to fill the gap from cuts in public spending.
The 1994 Group of research-intensive universities said the country’s economic recovery was being “put at risk by starving universities of investment”.
“The government will have effectively transferred the responsibility for the future funding of teaching to students and graduates,” says the Million+ group of universities.
Schools have been promised that their core funding will be protected from spending cuts.
There has also been a commitment to a pupil premium to help schools teaching disadvantaged children, which will rise to £2.5bn per year.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said this money, as part of a £7bn package, “will be invested in accelerating social mobility”.
But teachers’ unions have warned that they are “holding their breath” to see the details of changes to support services and other funding streams that supplement school incomes.
Head teachers say they are “very nervous of the funding reality” if they lose services outside this protected core budget.
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“Schools will lose out if, for example, specialist school funding is axed, local authority services such as transport are cut, the capital fund for building repairs is chopped, or rising staff costs are ignored,” says the ASCL head teachers’ union.
More than 95% of secondary schools have specialist status, which adds £450m to their budgets and costs £16m to administer.
Education maintenance allowances, received by about 600,000 young people aged between 16 and 18, could also face an overhaul.
These mean-tested allowances, worth up to £30 per week for families earning less than £20,817, cost £564m per year.
The Sure Start scheme, which provides centres and services to families of young children, has also been suggested as being likely to face changes.
A number of education quangos and regulators have already been scrapped – and other projects, programmes and administrative organisations could also be set to follow them.
Campaigners for disabled people have expressed fears over the impact of welfare cuts.
The disability charity, Scope, has warned of “disabled being pushed further into poverty and closer to the fringes of society”.
The National Autistic Society said lives would be “hanging in the balance” over funding decisions.
The charity warned that cuts to support and local authority services “may push whole families to crisis point”.
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