kaylee

great question im doing "black eyed children", no budget, and getting a non-actor 8 yr old to wear em seems highly unlikely if it was for adults i would 100% use contacts (they look painful tho lol). definitely open to suggestions!!!

wowww this is sooooo helpful, thanks SO much you guys!!!! ❤️❤️❤️ im buying the effect, just what i mean bottomline im gonna invest in a black marble, but also shoot for speculars on set. if i have a particular shot that needs more work than others in post, so be it. some'll obviously be harder than others depending on the lighting but thats fine. sound ok? @Andrew Reid daaamnnn the forum got a facelift~! i like it!

this is just in photoshop but this guy has the right idea, this is more what im going for a nice sharp eye + eyelashes and some big catchlights that arent too bright seems to be the thing...

definitely better. im not in love with the yellows, am i wrong?

for sure. heres one from VC and theres plenty of others, ill definitely look into it i guess im wondering conceptually how to make this really really good. how does this effect fail? sometimes its passable, but it doesnt quite fit in perfectly seems like a nice sharp higher res image would make masking easier (eyelashes/etc)? has anyone done an effect like this before?

squig: im an idiot, forgive me... so, not this, this is too new? https://builds.magiclantern.fm/experiments.html

Hi guys, I'm wondering how hard this is to do, suggestions, best practices. If I'm going for a look like this where the eyes are ALL black, pupil, iris, sclera, the whole thing, and I cant use contacts (wish I could) so I've gotta do it in post, what would you recommend? how can i make this look really convincing? one point even i can see is: if the talent doesnt blink in the shot, thatll be a lot easier lol. so lets say theyre not blinking getting something that looks like this shouldnt be too hard, but im going for a 100% believable illusion – whats the trick to that? something to do with catchlights? whaddya think fellas?

holy schnikes! i finally have time to try some 3.5k, whats this all about? i dont wanna brick my camera and im scared of a1ex ?

OMG ? nikon is amazingly out of touch with like... human beings (notice: im not saying anything about 9/11 ???)

OMG Liam u are SO CUTE ive done so much stuff by myself as an artist that i really shouldve had help with its crazy... sometimes i look back and im like How did i even do that? but making a FILM ~ALONE~? thats p frickin hard please raise the volume on the twins trailer, i cant hear it~!

its one of those corporate things that comes down from up high "Dont change the settings on the tvs" i was like Yeah just one problem those settings are APPALLING

i used to work at an a p p l store and i tried to fix the motion smoothing on the 4k LG tvs and they made me change it back smh yes, so does stu maschwitz, v smart dude, for those who arent familiar look him up, fascinating guy heres what he says about hdr (related) https://prolost.com/blog/hdrtv

good thinking i found it ? this is funny

hey i wanna see! do i have to make a onedrive account?

tru tru, thats why you need a business card with your account!! then they can see some of your work and girls LOVE instagram anyway as im sure you kno. are you #tagging your posts? dont be shy with that, ive seen people get mad overnight with the right tags, girls who put 30 #tags on their selfies mercer you have got to live in CA, amirite? outside of socal, ny and a few other places in the US, who the heck knows what scale is? ? (not trying to dox you feel free not to answer that lol) dude! thank you! ive never hear of this in my life. apparently my friends have lol ill check it out EDIT/UPDATE: holy cow people rlly like this show ?

? haaaa hey whats the search term i need to find videos like this? theres one where theyre talking about vfx and "a fixed bid" that i love lol

do you ever go up to strangers in public to ask them about being in a film? i totally do when it comes to my art im not shy lol. the point i was trying to make is that ive had at least as much success from talking to random people like that as ive had from casting calls on various websites... kinda weird really. and in terms of success i mean the whole enchilada – reliability, attitude, performance, look, etc. switching gears, ive decided to seize inspiration for my new miniseries from Twin Peaks by David Lynch™, even though ive never seen TPbDL® nevertheless it seems: • spooky • kinda surreal • odd • ????? im well on my way!

damn i swear i just saw an interview with construction worklights as practical background decoration.... man let me see if i can find it... examples are definitely out there!

wow hockey youre so smart... thats some food for thought. thank you, ill mull it over tbh this is exactly what the sum total of my knowledge after trying to learn about this stuff for the last ten years has led me to believe, thank you for CONFIRMING all that. seriously. what do i know? fookin nuthin (conor mcgregor) i have all kinds of vision. i want to talk with these people so i can convince them to love me. its absolutely key to my master plan. i have a fine art practice which im currently starting to reach out to galleries about – but those doors are not open. call up blum & poe and ask if you can email them your work. theyll say no. you have to shmooze your way into these circles, and unfortunately i fucking hate stuff like that, it feels SOOOooo disingenuous, like im not here to be your friend im here to sell myself, and im pretending im not, and it seriously makes me want to puke. im terrible at stuff like that. on the other hand, in a meeting that people actually want to have with me its quite the opposite, im delightful. but on a certain level i am shy, im an introvert, although you might not think so based on some of my work yes!! thats my thing tho im trynna draw that grand idea out over the next 20 years. im saving all my best ideas for (a) later (b) when my agents at CAA wanna kno what my plans are for the future i remember reading about kevin smiths meetings in hollywood after making clerks, and if im not mistaken he was borderline offered superman, and he couldnt say yes, as much of a comic nerd as he is, he couldnt do it~! he didnt have the skills. and ive thought a lot about taking advantage of such opportunities great analogy ? right! so what is that commodity...? ? im with you, tim

no shit when i was in school, i remember asking one time Whats going on with the video village? Seems like a bunch of people standing around doing nothing now i DREAM of people standing around. smart, talented, informed people... just standing around. standing guard against the chaos of reality @Liam congratulations on finishing up your edit! whats the latest piece about?

@mercer youve inspired me ive seen the stuff youre making and i was like Time to get off my ass and do something my thoughts exactly...

wow tons of good stuff there thanks @squig!!! i had a similar experience with a friend in school – he NAILED the horror look/atmosphere in a way that was..... i guess professional is the word id use? looked like something expensive even tho it was $0 budget, everyone was blown away although ive never been into the horror genre per se (does the shining count? lol), i recognize its popularity, im definitely going with the idea of paranormal/supernatural. people love ghost stories! close enough, right? ? basically, @squig, ive done the same thing, i wrote a great feature that i need $250k to produce, which isnt much for a feature, but it might as well be millions to me right now. THIS TIME, im only writing for what i have at my disposal, i swear to god, ive learned my lesson lol *looks up at sky fearfully* im gonna find local small town actors who wanna be in this (for FREE), and im going to write FOR THEM, not the other way around. im gonna put a flyer up ASAP!

bah gawd im gonna do it~! and im gonna write shorts the Rebel Without A Crew way (this time) – limiting the zero budget production to stuff i already have my parents just bought a house in an adorable mountain town, and my visit got me thinking... i should film something there so im going to, feel free to wish me luck or share stories of how this could get me high level representation or make suggestions or... whatever i feel like the best thing to hit up CAA with would be like an episodic series, with short episodes, and maybe theres enough of a flow so you could watch like, six ten minute pieces back to back if u wanted to. throw it up on youtube, see if anyone salutes seems like thats the hip thing, what do you think guys? *i understand that what im attempting creatively is very difficult if not impossible, but lets just ignore that for the moment lol

wow... that was really great @HockeyFan12 i want CAA like representation more than anything in the world, its essential to accomplishing my fine art and filmmaking goals. youre telling me that if i made a short that was hot, that could get my foot in the door? im aware of things like this happening in the abstract, im not questioning your point in any way, im begging for encouragement smh

i feel like the creative writing part of my brain is very much separate from the nuts and bolts production/budget side.... like they need to have a meeting to reconcile writing something you can produce frugally is extra tough for this reason imo i feel like: Kaylee, since you dont have the money to produce your feature yet, if youre such a genius why dont you write a little no budget short to get attention? easier said than done