Many former MTA students, producing, writing, acting, directing.

49 University of Newcastle, Australia, animation students were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off music video, and together they produced 2,767 frames of hand-drawn rotoscoped animation footage.

You can use QuickTime Player 7 to export all frames of a video, edit them, then reimport them or bring them into iMovie. Be careful where you export them to (NOT your Desktop) – a 3 minute video will create 5,400 images.

They are here.

John Seale and David Burr talk tech for two hours. On Vimeo.

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There sure are a lot. And people really care.

We watched International Cut (1982). And then the ending (and interpolated unicorn scene) from the Final Cut (2007).

Article in the New York Times magazine about Brett White, who specializes in editing Apatow-style improv comedies. He has an interesting take on critics’ obsession with continuity errors:

“You run into editors who say, ‘I can’t make that cut, the glass of water is in the wrong place in that take,’ ” White said. “But I’ll say: ‘Who cares? The performance is strongest in that cut!’ Why would you match the glass and take on that worse performance? ‘Matching is for sissies’ — that’s one of the things Dede would say all the time.” White argues that as audience members, we “look at actors’ eyes most of the time, so as long as they’re engaging, you’re going to be connected to that person, and whatever happens elsewhere in the frame is less important.” Increasingly, White is able to have his cake and eat it too, paying digital-effects houses to swap out an unwanted portion of a frame with one more desirable, say, or superimposing an actor’s head at the bottom to fabricate visual continuity between shots.

Bokeh simulator and depth of field calculator

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