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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| The art and craft of visual effects
		Most of the film's visual effects are designed to create a mood or an atmosphere and would pass largely unnoticed by the audience.
		There are more than 500 different visual effects in the movie - a mix of digital, physical effects and composite shots - mixing sequences together to form a whole.
		The effects range from the spectacular - a virtual army of thousands of Saxons on the march - to the subtle - cracks in the ice.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3886311.stm (887 words)

	Visual effects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Visual effects (vfx) is the term given to a sub-category of special effects in which images or film frames are created or manipulated for film and video.
		Visual effects usually involve the integration of live-action footage with computer generated imagery or other elements (such as pyrotechnics or model work) in order to create environments or scenarios which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or simply impossible to capture on film.
		Visual effects are frequently integral to a movie's story and appeal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visual_effects (252 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When they are hired to do an effect, their first step is to see how the same effect has been done in other movies.
		Filmmakers of old may have desired to bring their effects up a level too, but they also wanted their motion pictures to be on the level of reality.
		He believes special effects have entered a Mannerist phase; what he means is that painters in the 1500s got so proficient at reproducing scenes from real life, they eventually became bored, which spurred experimentation.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/features/movies (1652 words)

	Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters \| Visual Effects
		The specified visual effect is not executed as soon as it is declared in the script; instead, it is stored up to be used for the next card transition that is commanded from the handler.
		While you are developing a stack and choosing visual effects for it, you may at times want a quick reminder of the available visual effects and their syntax.
		One use for visual effects, particularly in stacks that are meant to be on public display, is to enhance animation techniques.
	www.jaedworks.com /hypercard/HT-Masters/visual-effects.html (9015 words)

	Using Visual Effects in Commercials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collaboration is key when visual effects are involved, and the more creative minds you have working together on the project, the more likely you are to achieve the best results.
		Typically, visual effects companies' clients come from three key sources: the advertising agency, which creates the concept for the commercial; the director and the production company; and the editor and the editorial company.
		A creative digital effects and design studio, Ring of Fire was launched in 1996 to specialize in visual effects supervision, 2D compositing, CGI and design for commercial, television and feature film projects.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue4.03/4.03pages/ringoffirecommercials.php3 (1971 words)

	75th Annual Academy Awards Rules 22 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Visual Effects, as an achievement or a craft, shall be determined by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee.
		Eligibility of the contributor(s) to the achievement, for nomination purposes, shall be determined by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee.
		Qualified active members of the Visual Effects Branch will be eligible to serve on the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee and shall attend a meeting to view the film excerpts and vote upon the achievements.
	www.oscars.org /75academyawards/rules/rule22.html (514 words)

	Savannah College of Art and Design > Academic > Visual Effects
		This course investigates the manufacture of atmospheric and surface independent effects, cultivating innovation in the study of procedural graphics and their application to scene creation and content delivery.
		This course aims to prepare students for employment in the field of visual effects.
		Each seminar focuses on various problems in the field of visual effects and allows advanced students to pursue individual or collaborative projects related to the subject of the course.
	www.scad.edu /academic/course/undergrad/visualeffects.cfm (643 words)

	Visual Effects Society :: 2006 Festival of Visual Effects
		VES is thrilled to present the 2007 VES Festival of Visual Effects at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills on the weekend of June 8-10th.
		Learn how miniature effects are called upon like the proverbial cavalry to come riding in to save a picture with a visual effect.
		Known to both VFX professionals and fans alike as a "living special effect", Mike is also the inventor of illusions that have astounded expert magicians, a skilled practitioner of origami, and a prime example of truly handcrafted animation and "personal" visual effects.
	www.visualeffectssociety.com /vesFestival.cfm (549 words)

	MochiKit.Visual - visual effects
		One of the visual pairs to use, between 'slide', 'blind', 'appear', and 'size'.
		Their purpose is mainly for creating your own effect and keep the user access to event callbacks (not overriding the library ones).
		When you create effects based on user input (mouse clicks for example), it can create conflicts between the effects if multiple effects are running at the same time.
	www.mochikit.com /doc/html/MochiKit/Visual.html (666 words)

	Visual and Special Effects Film Milestones
		This was the first special effect (in-camera), reportedly, of the controversial execution (decapitation) of Mary, Queen of Scots (Robert Thomae) on the execution block, using a dummy and a trick camera shot (substitution shot).
		The in-camera matte effect was of two separately filmed segments: the interior of a train station and the window (where a shot of a passing train was matted).
		This early film used state of the art, revolutionary visual effects (for its smoke-belching dragon and underwater spider, to the flying horse and magic armies arising from the dust) and displayed legendary production design.
	www.filmsite.org /visualeffects1.html (1577 words)

	FXhome.com :: Products :: EffectsLab :: Overview
		Integrate your effects into your movie using different blending methods, color grading filters and a variety of masks, including hand-drawn and alpha transparency.
		Color correction: A selection of grading filters enables your effects and live action footage to be tweaked and perfectly matched.
		Distortions: Manipulate your effects and footage to apply artificial depth of field, mosaic and oil painting styles and a variety of twirls and waves.
	fxhome.com /effectslab (571 words)

	AJAX Samples Part 4: Visual Effects for HTML
		Visual effects are definitvely an important aspect for AJAX applications today.
		This is a list of patterns of visual effects that can help you to make your AJAX application (or maybe any other web application) more attractive.
		The LightBox is another visual effect that can be used to implement a kind of modal user interaction without leaving the current loaded page.
	www.mathertel.de /AJAXEngine/S04_VisualEffects/Default.aspx (1071 words)

	VFX Visual Effects & Special Effects - CG Explorer
		Leading visual effects developer The Foundry today announced the release of Keylight, the Academy Award-winning blue and green screen keyer, for Autodesk’s Combustion and Adobe’s After Effects Standard Edition desktop software.
		Visual Effects - Leading visual effects developer The Foundry today announced the release of Keylight, the Academy Award-winning blue and green scre...
		Photon is an Australian VFX company specialising in visual effects for feature film and television production for both international and local clients.
	www.cgexplorer.com /visual-effects (2158 words)

	Visual effects
		Please consult the section on dynamic row and column effects in tables.
		This property may be used in conjunction with scripts to create dynamic effects.
		Since these boxes have the same size and position, the effect is that one replaces the other.
	www.w3.org /TR/CSS21/visufx.html (1187 words)

	MochiKit.Visual - visual effects
		One of the visual pairs to use, between 'slide', 'blind', 'appear', and 'size'.
		Their purpose is mainly for creating your own effect and keep the user access to event callbacks (not overriding the library ones).
		When you create effects based on user input (mouse clicks for example), it can create conflicts between the effects if multiple effects are running at the same time.
	mochikit.com /doc/html/MochiKit/Visual.html (725 words)

	Neverwinter Nights: Visual Effects
		Ask whoever is the builder for your module to install the DMFI Wand package [available on nwvault] and use the visual effect wand for that.
		In general, using the console command is far quicker and more efficient than using the DMFI tools for visual effects.
		Visual and written content on this page is not intended to duplicate Wizards of the Coast source materials.
	nwn.bioware.com /forums/viewtopic.html?topic=462382&forum=45 (548 words)

	Academy Award for Visual Effects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy Award for Visual Effects is an Oscar given to one film each year that shows highest achievement in visual effects.
		However, movies are judged on the quality of all of their effects shots, not just one scene.
		Below is a list of films that have received an Oscar for Visual Effects (in bold typeface) and the other nominees of the same year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Visual_Effects (413 words)

	Effects Corner: Visual Effects Career
		If you have problems getting work in visual effects or wish to switch to a different line of work a college degree may be required for an alternate job.
		If the school is near an effects company it may be possible to intern there or that someone may come to you school to speak.
		All visual effects had to be done in the camera when you're dealing with Super-8.
	effectscorner.blogspot.com /2005/12/visual-effects-career.html (5494 words)

	Visual and Special Effects Film Milestones
		The gimmicky 3-D effect required that the viewer wear special polarization glasses, unlike anaglyphic 3-D that required red/blue glasses to be worn.
		This was the first visual effects-laden "popcorn" film, featuring vibrant color special effects, and the destruction of various cities and landmarks, including the famous Los Angeles Courthouse Building.
		The attempted strangulation scene was filmed alternatively with a 3-D effect, when wealthy Margot Wendice (Grace Kelly) reached into the audience from the screen searching for a weapon (a pair of scissors) to defend herself and kill hired assassin Captain Lesgate (Anthony Dawson) by stabbing him in the back.
	www.filmsite.org /visualeffects3.html (1454 words)

	CIOL : News : The Lord of Visual Effects on VFX!
		And the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy epitomizes the progress of visual effects industry, it is a landmark, something that can be compared to Armstrong's landing on the moon.
		Jim Rygiel was the visual effects supervisor for the three films directed by Peter Jackson.
		Usually when you work on a film there are 1 or 2 different types of effects, for instance in Batman Returns, we did some digital penguins that performed a few moves, and we also did some digital compositing, but it was basically the same thing.
	www.ciol.com /content/news/2006/106030604.asp (1766 words)

	Mystique Visual Effects Studio a Division of Elysian Pictures with information on Mystique's post production & ...
		Mystique Visual Effects Studio is a division of Elysian Pictures designed to facilitate and meet the high demands of visual effects and post production required of every motion picture and video/commercial project commonly seen nowadays.
		Mystique Visual Effects is a high quality post-production facility offering compositing, 2D, 3D modeling and animation, and visual effects for video, film, and commercial projects.
		Below is a sample of the visual effects shots that were done for the film Scenario for Delirium.
	www.elysianpictures.com /mystique.htm (186 words)

	Kesign Design Consulting - Visual Effects - Model and Prop Builder and Special Effects.
		The instructor was a Visual Effects fan who had sold a few models to Battlestar Galactica and he gave me four phone numbers.
		I no longer actively seek work in physical effects, but have several former colleagues who are still active and have their own web sites.
		I was on the Special Effects crew for the pilot for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
	www.kesigndesign.com /code/visualmd.htm (878 words)

	Visual Effects
		QuickTime's visual effects architecture can be applied to visual media in a movie or can be used in real-time -- that is, applied to image sources that are not contained in a movie.
		Depending on the effect itself, you can apply visual effects over a length of time or once only.
		In this example, the dialog box is configured to show only effects that expect two sources, but it can be configured to show effects applied or requiring only a single source.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /Dave/Multimedia/node350.html (706 words)

	Wired 11.05: MATRIX2
		But by the time the melee is in full effect, everyone and everything on the screen is computer-generated - including the perspective of the camera itself, steering at 2,000 miles per hour and screaming through arcs that would tear any physical camera apart.
		Effects designers have been swapping CG faces onto the heads of stunt doubles for more than a decade, but typically, these faces were seen for only brief moments, from afar, or were occluded by other effects, like flames or smoke.
		This was the Wachowskis' name for a visual effect that didn't exist yet: an action sequence that slowed time to a sinuous crawl and then cranked it back up to normal speed as the camera pivoted rapidly around it.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html (4631 words)

	Create your own real-time visual effects
		We will eliminate all but one effect from the program and move the modification of the pixels displayed to the user into the screen.c file.
		With your current framework and example effects, you are on your way to creating exciting visual effects and interfaces.
		PiDiP real-time video effects processing software is available for Linux distributions and Mac OS X. Gephex is a modular video jockey software.
	www.ibm.com /developerworks/opensource/library/os-viseffects/?ca=dgr-lnxw06EffecTV (2649 words)

	fxguide - visual effects training - The Deaths of Ian: Stan Winston Studios @ fxguide
		Stan Winston is one of the most prolific and respected effects artists, having consistently advanced the state of the art for over three decades.
		Whereas the digital studio was previously open for any and all types of effects work, the new direction is to draw upon the strengths of the studio.
		That's not to say that they don't have capabilities in other areas of effects- the studio has an impressive depth in most aspects of visual effects, but where as some places are so huge they can cover every area SWD has an amazing specialist niche that is almost unparalleled.
	www.fxguide.com /article358.html (1392 words)

	Visual Effects Society
		Los Angeles, February 11, 2007 – The VES Awards were given out tonight during the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) fifth annual gala event at the Kodak Grand Ballroom.
		This year’s event, garnering the best attendance for these events so far, attracted more than eight hundred celebrities, visual effects and animation artists, dozens of nominees and members of the film, television and games industries.
		The Visual Effects Society invites you to get connected, get informed, and get seen.
	www.visualeffectssociety.com (255 words)

	Visual Effects in scriptaculous wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Visual Effects library includes all you need to add advanced Java Script animation to your Web 2.0 web site or application.
		So, if you tell an effect to last exactly one second, it will do so, regardless of the rendering speed of the browser.
		The Effects themselves are not aware of the type of element they are used on; and are basically designed to be independent of it.
	script.aculo.us /visual-effects (326 words)

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