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The blood effect really needs to be redone, it looked fake. Try hitting it with a match grain effect, lowering the saturation, dropping the contrast on it, and bumping up the blue channel a bit to get it closer. At the very same moment, however, the editing has a bit of a double-beat. In the...

I honestly and legitimately enjoyed this more than any of the Fast≥Furious series.

422 implies a clipped colorspace, though. For highest quality transfers between premiere and after effects I've always worked uncompressed.

If you're running windows, I recommend "Uncompressed AVI". Maximize quality settings, and make sure you're exporting to the correct resolution, etc. It's possible that Macs might work better with "uncompressed MOV" (at least I seem to recall that being an option) but I'm not sure as I'm not...

Music's not exactly my specialty, but I know what I look for when someone's scoring something for me, and I'll give you feedback based on that. You have a very good sense for traditional orchestral arrangements. Unfortunately, this is inhibited by the software you'r using in that if sounds a...

The distinction tends to boil down to style and intention. If there's a specific reason that you're looking for the streetlights to be blue, like if it in some way furthers your narrative, then do it. If you have a very meticulously planned out aesthetic, and blue streetlights fit into that, do...

I was running through some of my footage from prior projects recently, and stumbled across the ending sequence for a short that I wrote that was released as part of an anthology on DVD. Of all the shorts on the DVD mine was perhaps the most well received, but I tended to get one critique above...

You could probably use some sort of stock paint splatter effect, or set up a camera and some lights and film one yourself. If you would set up a camera a small distance away from a white board, and simulated a gore splatter effect, you could then apply a luma matte, key out the white, and...

Looks to my eye that they replaced him with CGI partway down. They could have pretty easily had a set for that scene on a sound stage, had a green or bluescreen crash pad that the actor would fall into about ten feet down, extended the shot with a BG replacement from the actual location, and...

...perhaps not the best attitude to have if you're being serious. There is no quick and easy route to learn any or all of the aspects of film making. Some routes are more effective, sure, and some routes are more expensive, but some of the books that I've read have given me greater insight than...

Bit of a personal pet peeve, a revolver is usually significantly louder and more distinct than an autoloader, but that's not the scope of the experiment. About the effects, though. The shots into the room looked functional enough, certainly passable. The shot above looked a bit off, I think...

To my knowledge you only have a few options: 1) Keep playing with the settings on the plug-ins you have, HOPE that you can nail it eventually. 2) Send it to a specialist, shell out the big bucks. 3) Keyframe a curves adjustment nearly frame-by-frame. 4) Live with it. Trade-offs for each...

Taking me out of context a bit. I'm saying that he SHOULD be making movies, but that at this stage in the game if his camera budget is less than $100, he might as well just film on whatever he can get his hands on and save the money for a more significant purchase later.

It's a phenomenal tool, I've dabbled with it a little while myself. I can't really be intimidated by it any more than I would be intimidated by the people over at Rooster Teeth or Dorkly. Each of them have used video games to make their shorts for quite a while now. This is simply a more...

Met with the casting agency today and they seem pretty genuine about how pleased they are of the script. Feels nice, considering I tend to be very skeptical of when people are complimentary; I don't like having smoke blown up my ass. The shoot's been pushed back about a month and a half...

All I'm saying is there's not much reason at this point in the game to toss down <$100 on a camera. The quality increase that you'd be purchasing would be marginal at most, and it's not what you should be focusing on to learn. I'm standing firmly: use a cell, or borrow someone's basic...

I REALLY dug the sets, but it seemed like the clothespins gimmick wore away pretty quickly. If you put a bit more time into making puppets with a more dynamic quality to them, I think it would bring your work to another level. Here's what I mean. The project in the link didn't have much more...

YouTube. The cycle continues...

Use your cell phone. You're not going to get any benefit from a camera under $100 that you wouldn't have from just recording video on your cell phone, so you might as well just use that. Focus on your fundamentals, and you'll get good enough to make the investment worthwhile. Save the $100 to...

VERY smooth movement, you've done a great job with the animation.