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Practical Effects

Everything in the school that teaches Practical Effects, across 4 departments.

45 lessons · 10h 52m · Directing · VFX · Production Design · Cinematography

Lessons on Practical Effects

2001 A Space Odyssey (1968): 2001 The Making Of A Myth — Top 10 Movies · 42m · Advanced
Nuke VFX Tutorial: How To Composite Muzzle Flashes, Gun Smoke, & More Gun FX Stock Footage — ActionVFX · 18m · Intermediate
Playing With 'Playing With Time' | Quick D — Captain Disillusion · 12m · Intermediate
Make Trick Shots like Dude Perfect | Easy 3D VFX | Blender 2.8 Tutorial — CG Geek · 19m · Intermediate
How Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey - Part 1: The Dawn of Man — CinemaTyler · 15m · Intermediate
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Making of - By BUF — VFX GURU · 8m · Advanced
Making The Dinosaurs | Jurassic Park Documentary (1993) | Screen Bites — Screen Bites · 18m · Intermediate
Gunfights The Indie (Safe) Way — InCamera · 35m · Advanced
Alien: The Story Behind MAKING the ‘Derelict Sequence’ | Making ALIEN — CinemaTyler · 25m · Advanced
The Dark Knight Truck Flip Behind The Scenes — Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures · 4m · Intermediate
2001: A Space Odyssey | On The Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 | Warner Bros. Entertainment — Warner Bros. Entertainment · 21m · Intermediate
4 Ways 2001: A Space Odyssey Was a Visual-Effects Pioneer — Vulture · 5m · Beginner
Making Of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Part 2) — Catalogus Randomus · 12m · Advanced
Making of - The Host (2006) — FilmArchive · 28m · Advanced
The Story Behind the Oil Fire Scene in There Will Be Blood — CinemaTyler · 17m · Intermediate
Jaws: Behind the Classic Shark Effects | Bonus Feature Spotlight [Blu-ray/DVD] — Universal Pictures At Home · 17m · Intermediate
Jurassic Park's $63 Million Disaster Almost Happened — Frame Voyager · 75m · Advanced
Incendies : Les coulisses de la scène du massacre du bus — PierreNolet · 13m · Advanced
How Oppenheimer's Sets Were Built Without CGI | Vanity Fair — Vanity Fair · 10m · Intermediate
'The Martian' Visual Effects - Variety Artisans — Variety · 6m · Intermediate
Okja 'A Visual Effects Story' Featurette | Netflix — FilmIsNow Epic Movie Zone · 4m · Intermediate
Raiders of the lost ark - Making of the melting face (Special effects) — David's Movie Corner · 9m · Intermediate
All Blade Runner Visual Effects Making Of — THE FILM ART · 10m · Intermediate
Oppenheimer: Exclusive Behind The Scenes | Pushing the Button | Christopher Nolan | IMDb — IMDb · 6m · Beginner
The Making Of E.T The Extra Terrestrial (5/10) — TheTerrestrialMedia · 8m · Intermediate
The Making of Inception — gettothegeekdotcom · 13m · Intermediate
Gladiator (2000) Movie - Behind the Scenes | Practical effects — Root Studio · 11m · Intermediate
Sculpting the giant Fish Monster for Bong Joon Ho's The Host — John Cox · 5m · Intermediate
Why Jurassic Park Looks Better Than Its Sequels — Films&Stuff · 9m · Intermediate
Black Hawk Down Behind the scenes part 1 — corporal Hicks · 25m · Intermediate

Departments teaching this

Oscar winners for visual effects

Books on visual effects

The workstation

G.Skill 64GB DDR5-6000 kit — The floor for 4K raw with effects
Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB — The other one, usually cheaper
SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE 8TB — Desktop archive drive built for footage
Corsair 128GB DDR5 kit — For Unreal, caches and twelve open applications
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — Quick Sync, which some codecs still love
Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint

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