“Gravity†top nominations at Visual Effects Society Awards
Gravity film has topped nominations for the 12th annual Visual Effects Society Awards in eight categories.
January 29th, 2014
Gravity film has topped nominations for the 12th annual Visual Effects Society Awards in eight categories.
In a Visual Effects driven feature, Alfonso Cuaron's space drama leading Sandra Bullock is in the top prize of Outstanding Visual Effects. In addition to awards for Created Environments, Contact music, Outstanding Compositing and Simulation Animation reported.
15 th Pune International Film Festival
The Pune Film Foundation has been organizing the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) jointly with the
Government of Maharashtra for the past 14 years with great fanfare.
Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) was born in 2002. The aim was to attract the best in celluloid to
the city, a task that it has achieved and how, over the last 14 years and transformed from a sleepy town
to a bustling metropolis with a mix of varied cultures and hu
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
