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Kickstarter Watch: ‘Kung Fury’

by John Carle, Jan 3 2014 // 9:00 AM

Kung Fury

Normally the Kickstarter Watch focuses on projects that are still in need of funding. This one is another kind of watch entirely since if you’ve been on YouTube over the past week, it’s been pretty much impossible to miss this one: Kung Fury.

Shot in a style very similar to that of YouTuber Mike Diva’s Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Movie, Kung Fury is heavily 80’s inspired with everything from its Ghostbusters-esque power chord to filters on top of filters on top of filters and graphics that’d make the Lawnmower Man cry (one background graphic even looks like the loading screen from the video game version of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon).

Kung Fu, Nazis, Hitler, Thor, a Viking girl with machine guns and dinosaurs. How could this not be awesome. In just over a week, this trailer has garnered just about 5,000,000 views on YouTube.

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Posted in: Kickstarter Watch · Movies · News · The Internets · VFX · Visual Effects · YouTube
Tagged: Hitler, kickstarter, Kickstarter Watch, Kung Fury, Laser Unicorns, Movies, Thor, YouTube
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‘Blanka is a Troll’ May Be My New Favorite Thing On YouTube

by John Carle, Aug 26 2013 // 8:30 AM

Blanka Is a Troll

The internet is filled with pictures, gifs and videos of people failing at life in some way shape or form. These can be Jackass style stunts, car dash cams or just people who have screwed up even the most basic thing to disastrous results while someone just happened to have their iPhone out. Facebook pages featuring these pictures gain millions of fans and the compilation videos on YouTube gain millions of views.

There must be something inherently terrible about people that they enjoy watching others fail. But it doesn’t end there, after watching people fail, there is a next level of person who takes pleasure in the failures of other. That person is known as a Troll.

Launching a little over two months ago, Blanka is a Troll is a series of videos that put in sprites of everyone’s favorite electric green Street Fighter into these fail situations to hilarious results. Seeing a bride fall into a pool of water somehow becomes even funnier when it is Blanka who pushed her in. Watching a bunch of skateboarders bite it is even better when Blanka unleashed a bunch of pineapples in their path. As you’ll see in the video below, Blanka is a Troll shows just how terrible we can be as people and how we can make someone’s embarassing moment that much worse by immortalizing it and exposing it to millions of strangers online.

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Posted in: Capcom · News · VFX · Video · Video Games · YouTube
Tagged: Blanka, blanka is a troll, Capcom, Chun Li, chun-li is jealous, Machinima, Street Fighter, troll, Video Games, Viral Video, YouTube
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‘Before VFX’ Reveals the True Nature of Your Favorite Movies

by Joe Gillis, Mar 7 2013 // 10:30 AM

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In today’s big budget movies, almost anything you see could be a visual effect. From buildings to cars to giant flying robots and more, the men and women who create today’s modern visual effects are masters of their craft and are able to take an ordinary scene of two people staring into the void and turn it into a piece of movie magic.

We’ve seen the “after” of all this work in hundreds blockbuster movies, but what about the “before”? Well, a new website wants to highlight just that. Over at Before VFX, they’ve collected a ton of photos from various blockbuster movies that show what the site calls “The Canvas” of the visual effects shot.

In other words, they show what the scene was actually like before any visual effects were added and before an audience ever saw one frame. It’s a fascinating look into just how much goes into the making of a modern movie blockbuster and how much we owe the VFX artists who do this work every day.

Plus, as Dustin Rowles at Pajiba put it, it shows us “how little credit we give A-list actors for their ability to interact and engage with green screens.” How little credit indeed. It can’t be that easy.

Check out several pics after the break and head over to Before VFX for a ton more.

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Posted in: Movies · Tech · VFX
Tagged: Before VFX, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Greenscreen, John Carter, Kick-Ass, Movie Magic, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Adjustment Bureau, The Dark Knight, The Twilight Saga, Twilight, VFX, Visual Effects Artists
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