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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Special Effects"”.
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Aaru's Awakening special effects
The project is a set of three computer graphic special effects for the 2D platformer video game Aaru’s Awakening, currently being developed by the video game developers at Lumenox. This product will be used by the developers and art director at Lumenox. This can only be run inside the environment …
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Design And Assessment Of Compact Optical Systems Towards Special Effects Imaging
A main challenge in the field of special effects is to create special effects in real time in a way that the user can preview the effect before taking the actual picture or movie sequence. There are many techniques currently used to create computer-simulated special effects, however current …
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A Decade in Dissolve: Body Horror, Special Effects and Industrial Authorship, 1979 – 1989
Academic and popular writing on special effects has focused on technological developments, the creation of spectacle, and their use in science-fiction, fantasy, and action blockbuster films. It has overlooked the horror genre and the creative labour of special effects artists during the practical …
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Beyond the Aesthetic Machine: Disney's Multiplane Camera and the Role of Special Effects Technologies in the Animation Industry
… of this commitment is the multiplane camera, a special effects device first introduced in 1937 and widely praised for its ability to instill a sense of depth in the company's earliest feature-length films, including Snow White and Pinocchio. Animation and cinema studies scholars who have studied …
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Cello map: a handbook of Cello technique for performers and composers
… or notation guide, which has led to isolated special effects. Several authors of handbooks of technique have pointed to an alternative, strategic, scientific approach to technique as an ideological ideal. I have adopted this approach more fully than before and applied it to the cello for the …
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Children's comprehension of video effects : understanding meaning, mood & message
Children's comprehension of special effects was examined in a series of digital video workshops designed for 9-14 year olds. Children assessed illusions in film, TV and video. They made observations about a mood or message conveyed through these magical "tricks" and effects, and generated …
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Image registration and its application to computer vision : mosaicing and independant motion detection
… including virtual reality environments and movie special effects.
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A guide to the use of etudes and exercises in teaching the tuba
… tuba training materials such as contemporary special effects, there are sufficient tuba materials in the current repertory for the training of professional tuba performers.
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The transforming muses: stage appropriations of the gothic novel in the 1790s.
… function of costuming, lighting, music and special effects in Gothic. The concepts of intertheatricality and infratheatricality, and their relavance to Gothic are addressed in order to attempt a new definition of the genre.
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Text-Driven Movie Manipulation
… manipulation. Compared to work-intensive special effects, our method enables quick and flexible experimentation.
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Picturing Wonderland: Filming Fantasy in Adaptations of Carroll's Alice Stories
… are adapted into visible form through the art of special effects, emphasizing how different effects techniques lend themselves to the creation of different types of fantasy. In my first chapter, I examine the applicability of Todorov’s theory of the fantastic to Carroll’s Alice stories and its …
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Efficient data structures for piecewise-smooth video processing
… level methods such as object manipulation and special effects, rely on piecewise-smooth functions computed from the input data. In this thesis, we present two computationally efficient data structures for representing piecewise-smooth visual information and demonstrate how they can dramatically …
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The use of the damper pedal in the classical period: Steibelt and Dussek and their influence on Austrian composers
… such as Steibelt and Dussek. On the whole, the effects that these composers intended by means of the damper pedal are clear and precise—different from modern pedaling in which the consistent use of the damper pedal is normal and special effects are achieved by not using the damper pedal. This …
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Research into the impact of digital technology on contemporary Hollywood cinema
… of the way COL has taken over oldfashioned special effects in contemporary Hollywood cinema and is being favoured by filmmakers as the most effective method to combine spectacle and narrative.
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An investigation into the construction of an animatronic model.
… showing how modern animatronic models created as special effects have roots in models created during the scientific and mechanical revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is noted that animatronic models that are available today have not been described in any great detail and most are …
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Development of a Theoretical Model Based Upon Factors Influencing a Firm's Suitability for Organizational Evolution
… Decades would pass before the techniques of special effects and editing evolved to provide the type of movie often shown today. Similarly, early television looked like a radio show where the audience could observe the speakers. Ford's Model T, a "horse-less" carriage. seemed to be designed …
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Daughter of Bird and Earth
… modern mythology. The juxtaposition of timbres, special effects, themes, gestures, and dynamics is audaciously sharp and dramatic. These features can be very obvious and easy to capture for the listener. This power and creativity reflect the many feminist-influenced artistic and social movements …
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The Emergence and Development of Digital Film-Making in Iran
… of film-making which has certain international effects in world cinema. These film-makers have found a new method to approach reality and represent it in their films. On the other hand, this new cinematic reality contains more elements from a representation of reality than the analogue one, due …
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