Didn’t go to film school? No worries, neither did we. Good news is that you’re not missing out on much and won’t be declaring bankruptcy due to student loans any time soon (we hope). There are lot of “Film Blogs” out there that only seem to care about the latest 4k this and 35mm that or…
What is a plot theme? Whether we’re talking about Blade Runner, Casablanca or Wolf of Wall Street, every plot has a theme. Every great work of fiction has a plot theme, the ones that do not are easily forgotten. A plot theme is not what the story is about or even the plot itself, as you may…
Want to create realistic trees within Blender? No problem. In this post you will learn to model and texture a fairly realistic looking tree inside Blender. Blender is a completely free 3D program so if you want to have a go at this, you can get it HERE. Launch Blender. Hit the X key…
This will be a basic guide to how to process photos created by Motion Six’s Cinema lenses. Processing your image is a good idea of you’re working for a client or the photographs are going to be blown up to a large canvas. The aim of this post is to get you started with the processing…
A question we get asked time and time again, why is Motion six not on any social media sites? We had a Facebook, which was closed two years ago and a twitter that was closed few months back. Motion Six is currently on no networking websites and this always seems to surprise people. “Well, it’s a…
Denoise… what? A lot of filmmakers these days add film grains and noise to their digital footage so you might wonder why we’re writing a tutorial on denoising digital video. Here are some factors to consider: Clean footage is exudes a professional aura to your production, especially when working for clients. Clean footage is almost always…
We’ll start off with importing an image as a plane and applying the alpha maps to that image plane, however this technique can be applied in a number of different ways including in Material Editor. If you don’t know how to import images as planes in Blender, read How To Import Image as Planes…
In order to import image as 3D planes in Blender, we’ll need to adjust some settings. Load Blender and head over to the Prefernces. To do this go to File > User Preferences. In the User Preferences, go to the Addon Tab. Type in Image in the Search Section. Enable the…
Here’s a quick video shot with Cinema 58. We used a variable aperture with primary blue coating, yellow secondary coating and red as a third coating on the lens. We have’nt graded the video, why not download the video from Vimeo and have a test grade yourself? The video was shot using a…
First test using low light optimised version of Cinefury 58 from motionsix.co.uk. H264 video encoding adds a lot of noise and artifacts to the video, check out the video stills below the video! No additional lights, filters or peripherals were used in this video, just the street lights. No colour grading or correction has been…