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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Movie Database

Why bother doing a database on 'Movies' when I've just done others on Film,Video, Media, etc? Well, I find that any variation on a theme will bring up a different set of links. 'Make Movies' will be different from 'MakeMovies', and mispellings will get other variations.
You can usefully waste time by taking any of the links below and replacing the first word.



Movie Books
Movie books
Movie Publishers
Movie Manuals
Movie Publications

Movie Journals
Movie journals
Movie magazines
Movie ezines
Movie Guides
Movie Reports
Movie Library Catalogue
Movie references
Movie Headings
Movie Notices

Movie Editing Tools
Movie editing tools

Input and Output devices
Movie cameras
Web cameras
Movie capturing

Movie Exhibitions
Movie Museums
Movie exhibitions
Movie Shows

Movie Projects
Movie Projects
Movie workshops
Community Services links
Community TV UK
Environment links
Healthy Eating links
Home Safety links
Police information links
Sport for children links

Movie People
Movie masters
Movie Artists
Movie Designers
Movie music composers
Movie Writers
Movie Producers
Movie Directors

Movie Studies
Movie Certificates
Movie courses
Movie degrees
Movie exams
Movie qualifications
Movie Theory
Free Movie lessons
Movie scholarships
Movie Colleges
Movie Colleges UK
Movie Colleges USA
Online Movie Courses
Movie Documentaries

Movie Psychology
Movie Psychology
Child Psychology
Movie tutorials

Movie in the Curriculum
Movie in Education
Movie in the Curriculum
Movie definitions
Movie for Children
Movie for kids
Movie Glossary
Teaching Movie
Movie Tutorials
Optical Toys
Movie for Special Needs
Movie Arts Education
Movie School Directory
Movie Headings
Movie tutorials

Movie Techniques
2d Movie
3D Movie
Movie Dolls
Movie Figures
Movie Graphics
Movie Illusion
Movie Layouts
Movie Photo
Movie Plugins
Movie Practice
Movie Projectors
Movie Titling
Movie toolsets
Movie Tricks
Movie
Illusion
Computer Movie
Experimental Movie
Limited Movie
Model Movie
Movie Making Movie
Optical effects
Optical printers
Performance Movie
Puppet Movie
Rotoscoping
Time Lapse Movie
Traditional Movie

Movie Libraries
Movie Sources
Movie library
Movie libraries
Movie
Animals
Faces
Machines
Weather
Buttons
People
Transport
Movie cycles
Flash Movie
Flash Movie tutorials
Flash movies
Movie Collections
Movie Listings

Movie Data Bases
Movie Databases
Movie data banks
Movie Research
Movie Data base links
Audio Visual Data Base
Audio Visual Links
Multimedia database
Multimedia Links
Movie Taxonomy
Movie Indexes
Movie Bibliographies
Movie Biographies
Movie Statistics
Movie Registers

Movie Funding
Movie Funding
Movie Grants
Movie Funding
Movie Grants

Movie Materials
Movie materials
Movie Supplies

Movie Equipment
Movie capture cards
Movie Equipment
Movie Light boxes
Movie line testers
Movie rostrums
Movie suppliers
Editing systems
Home Recording
Rostrum cameras

Sound for Movie
Actors in Movie
Movie Recording
Movie Sound mixing
Music for Movie
Sound sfx
Sound Special Effects
Sounds for Movie
Voice-Over Actors

Animal sounds
Animal sounds downloads
Animal sounds for kids
Animal sounds midi
Animal sounds mp3
Animal sounds online
Animal sounds.wav
Animals

Machine sounds
Machines noises
machine sounds
machine sound effects

Weather sounds
Weather sounds
weather sound effects
weather sound fx
weather sound files
weather sounds wav

Writing for Movie
Movie Slideshows
Movie Glossary
Movie Scriptwriting
Movie scriptwriting
Flow Charting
Graphic Novels
Photo Strip writing
Pre-visualisation
Pre-visualization
Societies for Writers
Storyboard software
Storyboard templates
Storyboards
Movie Scriptwriting
Visualisation
Visualization
Writing Dialogue
Writing Fantasy
Writing for Movie
Writing Graphic Novels
Previs
Writing Video Games
Writing for Children
Writing Advertising

Women’s Movie
Women’s Movie USA

Children’s Movie
Children’s Movie
Children’s Programs
Children’s TV
Kids Movie
Kids Movie Projects

Students Movie
Students Movie

Movie Forums
Movie Clubs
Movie Discussions
Movie forums
Movie Newsgroups
Movie Blogs
Movie Podcasting

Movies - Pitching ideas
Movie – Pitching ideas
Movie Directors
Movie Distributors
Movie presentations

Web Movie
Web Movie
Online Movie
Web Movies
Movie Character Agents
Movie clips
Movie Streaming video
Movie books - Internet
WebMovie Software

Movie Festivals
Movie Festivals
UK
USA
World
Movie Societies

Movie Competitions
Movie competitions
Movie Awards

Movie Contracts
Selling Movie
Movie Contracts
Movie Agents
Scriptwriting Agents
Character Licensing
Movie Acquisitions
Movie Unions

Miscelaneous Movie
Movie Collectibles
Movie Acting
Movie Oddities
Movie for Sale
Movie Auctions
Movie Swimming
Movie Reviews
Stop Frame
Movie templates
Movie Science Fiction
Movie Fantasy
Flash Movie tutorials

Free and cheap Movie software
Movie Freeware
Movie Shareware
Movie Demos
Free Web Movie

Movie Production
Movie Features
Movie Industry
Movie Producers
Movie production
Movie Production Budgetting
Movie Production Companies UK
Movie Production Companies USA
Movie Production Pipeline
Movie Production Processes
Movie Series
Movie Studios
Independent Productions
Pre-Production
Post Production

Movie in Advertising
Movie Commercials
Movie in Advertising
Movie in Religion
Movie Television
Promotional Movie
Movie Numerology
Movie Astrology
Movie Juggling
Movie Snooker
Movie Guitar
Movie Football

Movie Networks
Eefoof
Movie Networks
Google Video
Internet Video
Movie Networks
Short Movie Networks
Underground Movies
YouTube

Movie History
Movie History
Movie History USA
Movie History UK
Movie History France
Optical Toys
Movie Archives

Computer Movie
Movie Holograms
Behavioural Movie
Movie Blogs
Movie Laboratories
Movie Languages
Movie programming
Movie Research
Movie Studies
Movie Studios
Movie Techniques
Movie Tools
Motion Graphics
Virtual Reality

Special Effects Movie
SFX Movie
Special effects Movie
Morphing software

Technical Movie
Audio-Visual technology
Digital Audio-Visual

Movie Work
Movie Ability
Movie Careers
Movie Instructor
Movie Jobs
Movie Positions
Movie Talent
Movie Work
Movie Vacancies
Mandy
Movie co-op
Movie Careers
Shooting People
Talent Circle

Also check
Audio-Visual*, and MultiMedia*

Movie Science
Movie Architecture
Movie Astronomy
Animated Astronomy
Movie Biology
Movie Calculations
Movie Charts
Movie Chemistry
Movie Climate
Movie Cryptology
Movie Demonstrations
Movie Earth
Movie Electrical
Movie Graphs
Movie Math
Movie Meteorology
Movie Ornithology
Movie Passwords
Movie Physics
Movie Planet
Movie Predictions
Movie Sport
Movie Stars
Movie Tables
Movie Temperature
Movie Topology
Movie Universe
Architecture Movie
Biology Movie
Engineering Movie
Legal Movie
Medical Movie
NASA
Science Movie
Technical Movie

Movie Abroad
Movie Argentina
Movie Asia
Movie Belgium
Movie Canada
Movie China
Movie Denmark
Movie Egypt
Movie Finland
Movie France
Movie Germany
Movie India
Movie Iran
Movie Israel
Movie Italy
Movie Japan
Movie Middle East
Movie North Korea
Movie Norway
Movie Pakistan
Movie Russia
Movie Scotland
Movie South America
Movie South Korea
Movie Sweden
Movie Thailand
Movie Wales
Movie West Indies

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Media Database

The term 'Media' is a catchall for animators and writers. It is no longer possible to define where the boundaries are. Mobile phones are now used for the Internet, and buses display moving images on there sides.
People can buy animated T-shirts, and get animated tattoos. Brain scanners can show your brain animating as it thinks, and we can get animated pictures of the weather on Mars. Ho hum, when are they going to do anything interesting?

The big question is 'what is interesting'. The Media People devote their whole lives to this question. Interesting=Money, Money=Power, Power=Success, Success=? Well, we haven't got around to that yet.
We know that Paris Hilton is interesting because she apparently gets around 80 million hits a day on the web. But what does Paris Hilton find interesting? The nearest guess I can make is that she finds the fact that the media finds her interesting, interesting.

You too can join the Media club by using the database below, and devote your time to your views on what is interesting.


Media Books
Media books
Media Publishers
Media Manuals
Media Publications

Media Journals
Media journals
Media magazines
Media ezines
Media Guides
Media Reports
Media Library Catalogues
Media References
Media Headings
Media Notices

Media Editing Tools
Media editing tools

Input and Output devices
Input devices
Media tablets
Light pens
Special keyboards
Optical mouse
Media cameras
Web cameras

Output devices
Media capturing

Media Exhibitions
Media Museums
Media exhibitions
Media Shows

Media Projects
Media Projects
Media workshops
Community Services links
Community TV UK
Environment links
Healthy Eating links
Home Safety links
Police information links
Sport for children links

Media People
Media masters
Media Artists
Media Designers
Media music composers
Media Writers
Media Producers
Media Directors

Media Studies
Media Certificates
Media courses
Media degrees
Media exams
Media qualifications
Media Theory
Free Media lessons
Media scholarships
Media Colleges
Media Colleges UK
Media Colleges USA
Online Media Courses
Media Documentaries

Media in the Curriculum
Media in Education
Media in the Curriculum
Media definitions
Animatic definition
Media for Children
Media for kids
Media Glossary
Teaching Media
Media Tutorials
Media for Special Needs
Media Arts Education
Media School Directory
Media Headings

Media Techniques
2d Media
3D Media
Media Figures
Media Photo
Media Plugins
Media Practice
Media Projectors
Media Titling
Media toolsets
Media Tricks
Computer Media
Cutout Media
Drawn Media
Experimental Media
Limited Media
Line testing Media
Model Media
Movie Making Media
Optical effects
Paper Media
Pencil test Media
Performance Media
Puppet Media
Rotoscoping
Time Lapse Media
Traditional Media
Vector Media
Media Media
Media Art

Media Libraries
Media Sources
Media library
Media libraries
Media Skins
Free Media gifs
Free-clipart
Buttons
People
Transport
GifMedia s
Media cycles
Flash Media
Media Alphabets
Flash Media tutorials
Flash Media
Media Collections
Media Listings

Media Data Bases
Media Databases
Media data banks
Media Research
Media Data base links
Multimedia database
Multimedia Links
Media Taxonomy
Media Indexes
Media Bibliographies
Media Biographies
Media Statistics
Media Registers

Media Funding
Media Funding
Media Grants
Media Funding
Media Grants

Media Materials
Media materials
Media Supplies

Media Equipment
Media capture cards
Media Equipment
Media Light boxes
Media line testers
Media rostrums
Media suppliers
Editing systems
Home Recording
Rostrum cameras

Sound for Media
Actors in Media
Media Recording
Media Sound mixing
Music for Media
Sound sfx
Sound Special Effects
Sounds for Media
Voice-Over Actors

Animal sounds
Animal sounds downloads
Animal sounds for kids
Animal sounds midi
Animal sounds mp3
Animal sounds online
Animal sounds.wav
Animals

Machine sounds
Machines noises
machine sounds
machine sound effects
animal sounds ringtones

Weather sounds
Weather sounds
weather sound effects
weather sound fx
weather sound files
weather sounds wav

Writing for Media
Media Slideshows
Animatics
Media Glossary
Media Scriptwriting
Flow Charting
Graphic Novels
Photo Strip writing
Pre-visualisation
Pre-visualization
Societies for Writers
Storyboard software
Storyboard templates
Storyboards
Media Scriptwriting
Media Scriptwriting
Visualisation
Visualization
Writing Dialogue
Writing Fantasy
Writing for Media
Writing Graphic Novels
Previs
Writing Media Games
Writing for Children
Writing Advertising

Women’s Media
Women’s Media USA

Children’s Media
Media children’s Games
Children’s Media
Children’s Programs
Children’s TV
Comic Media
Kids Media

Students Media
Students Media

Media Forums
Media Clubs
Media Discussions
Media forums
Media Newsgroups
Media Blogs
Media Podcasting


Media – Pitching Ideas
Media – Pitching ideas
Media Directors
Media Distributors
Media presentations

Web Media
Web Media
Online Media
Web Media
Media Character Agents
Media Media clips
Media Streaming Media
Media books - Internet
WebMedia Software
Media Banners
Media Signs

Media Festivals
Media Festivals
UK
USA
World
Media Societies

Media Competitions
Media competitions
Media Awards

Media Contracts
Selling Media
Media Contracts
Media Agents
Scriptwriting Agents
Character Licensing
Media Acquisitions
Media Unions


Miscelaneous Media
Media Cards
Media Ecards
Emoticons
Media Selections
Media Collectibles
Media Acting
Media Oddities
Media Screen Savers
Screen Capture Programs
Media for Sale
Media Auctions
Media Swimming
Media Reviews
Stop Frame
Media templates
Media Science Fiction
Media Fantasy
Flash Media tutorials


Free and cheap Media software
Media Freeware
Media Shareware
Media Demos
Free Web Media

Media Production
Media Features
Media Industry
Media Producers
Media production
Media Production Budgetting
Media Production Companies UK
Media Production Companies USA
Media Production Pipeline
Media Production Processes
Media Series
Media Studios
Independent Productions
Pre-Production
Post Production

Media in Advertising
Media Commercials
Media in Advertising
Media in Religion
Arts Television
Promotional Media

Computer Games
Media Games Designers
Media Numerology
Media Astrology
Media Juggling
Media Snooker
Media Guitar
Media Football

Media Networks
Eefoof
Media Networks
Google Media
Internet Media
Movie Networks
Short Media Networks
Underground Media
YouTube

Media Comics
Media comics
web comics
web comic list
web comic directory

Media History
Media History
Media History USA
Media History UK
Media History France
Media Archives

Computer Media
Media Holograms
Media Rendering
Media spline
Behavioural Media
Computer Media
Computer Media Blogs
Computer Media Clubs
Computer Media Companies
Computer Media Glossary
Computer Media History
Computer Media Laboratories
Computer Media Languages
Computer Media programming
Computer Media programs
Computer Media Research
Computer Media Societies
Computer Media Studies
Computer Media Studios
Computer Media Techniques
Computer Media Tools
Computer Media
Computer Media
Motion Media
Virtual Reality

Special Effects Media
SFX Media
Special effects Media
Morphing software

Technical Media
Audio-Visual technology
Digital Audio-Visual

Media Work
Media Ability
Media Careers
Media Instructor
Media Jobs
Media Positions
Media Talent
Media Work
Media Vacancies
Mandy
Media co-op
Media Careers
Shooting People
Talent Circle

Media Science
Media Architecture
Media Astronomy
Media Astronomy
Media Biology
Media Calculations
Media Charts
Media Chemistry
Media Climate
Media Cryptology
Media Demonstrations
Media Earth
Media Electrical
Media Graphs
Media Math
Media Meteorology
Media Ornithology
Media Passwords
Media Physics
Media Planet
Media Predictions
Media Sport
Media Stars
Media Tables
Media Temperature
Media Topology
Media Universe
Architecture Media
Biology Media
Engineering Media
Legal Media
Medical Media
Science Media
Technical


Media Abroad
Media Argentina
Media Asia
Media Belgium
Media Canada
Media China
Media Denmark
Media Egypt
Media Finland
Media France
Media Germany
Media India
Media Iran
Media Israel
Media Italy
Media Japan
Media Middle East
Media North Korea
Media Norway
Media Pakistan
Media Russia
Media Scotland
Media South America
Media South Korea
Media Sweden
Media Thailand
Media Wales
Media West Indies

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Friday, June 29, 2007

Audio Visual Database


The field of Audio-Visual obviously overelaps Film, Animation, and Computers, so there will be duplication of sites in the various Databases below. Hopefully at some point they will be better categorised, but until they are, they just act as pointers for those interested.

AV Books
Audiovisual books
AV Publishers
AV Publications

AV Journals
AV journals
AV magazines
AV ezines
AV Guides
AV Reports
AV Library Catalogues
AV References
AV Headings
AV Notices

AV Editing Tools
AV editing tools

Input and Output devices
Input devices
AV tablets
Light pens
Special keyboards
Optical mouse
AV cameras
Web cameras
Output devices
AV capturing

AV Exhibitions
AV Museums
AV exhibitions
AV Shows

AV Projects
AV Projects
AV workshops
Community Services links
Community TV UK
Environment links
Healthy Eating links
Home Safety links
Police information links
Sport for children links

AV People
AV masters
AV Artists
AV Designers
AV music composers
AV Writers
AV Producers
AV Directors

AV Studies
AV Certificates
AV courses
AV degrees
AV exams
AV qualifications
AV Theory
Free AV lessons
AV scholarships
AV Colleges
AV Colleges UK
AV Colleges USA
Online AV Courses
AV Documentaries
AV tutorials

AV in the Curriculum
AV in Education
AV in the Curriculum
AV definitions
Animatic definition
AV for Children
AV for kids
AV Glossary
Teaching AV
AV Tutorials
Optical Toys
AV for Special Needs
AV Arts Education
AV School Directory
AV Headings
AV tutorials

AV Techniques
2d AV
3D AV
AV Dolls
AV Figures
AV AV
AV Illusion
AV Inbetweens
AV Layouts
AV Photo
AV Photocopy
AV Plugins
AV Practice
AV Projectors
AV Titling
AV toolsets
AV Tricks
Art Illusion
Cel AV
Computer AV
Cutout AV
Drawn AV
Experimental AV
Facial AV
Limited AV
Line testing AV
Model AV
Movie Making AV
Optical effects
Optical printers
Paper AV
Pencil test AV
Performance AV
Pixilation
Plasticine AV
Puppet AV
Raster AV
Rotoscoping
Sand AV
Time Lapse AV
Traditional AV
Vector AV
AV Art

AV Sources
AV Sources
AV library
AV libraries
AV Skins
Free AV gifs
Free-clipart
Animals
Faces
Machines
Weather
Buttons
People
Transport
Gif AVs
AV cycles
Flash AV
AV Alphabets
Flash AV tutorials
Flash AV
Animes
Anims
AV Collections
AV Listings

AV Data Bases
AWN
AV Databases
AV data banks
AV Research
AV Data base links
Audio Visual Data Base
Audio Visual Links
Multi AV database
Multi AV Links
AV Taxonomy
AV Indexes
AV Bibliographies
AV Biographies
AV Statistics
AV Registers

AV Funding
AV Funding
AV Grants
AV Funding
AV Grants

AV Materials
AV materials
AV Supplies

AV Equipment
AV capture cards
AV Equipment
AV Light boxes
AV line testers
AV rostrums
AV suppliers
Editing systems
Home Recording
Rostrum cameras

Sound for AV
Actors in AV
AV Recording
AV Sound mixing
Music for AV
Sound sfx
Sound Special Effects
Sounds for AV
Vocoders
Voice-Over Actors

Animal sounds
Animal sounds downloads
Animal sounds for kids
Animal sounds midi
Animal sounds mp3
Animal sounds online
Animal sounds.wav
Animals

Machine sounds
Machines noises
machine sounds
machine sound effects
animal sounds ringtones

Weather sounds
Weather sounds
weather sound effects
weather sound fx
weather sound files
weather sounds wav

Writing for AV
AV Slideshows
Animatics
AV Glossary
AV Scriptwriting
Comic Strip writing
AV scriptwriting
Flow Charting
Graphic Novels
Photo Strip writing
Pre-visualisation
Pre-visualization
Societies for Writers
Storyboard software
Storyboard templates
Storyboards
AV Scriptwriting
AV Scriptwriting
Visualisation
Visualization
Writing Dialogue
Writing Fantasy
Writing for AV
Writing Graphic Novels
Previs
Writing AV Games
Writing for Children
Writing Advertising

Women’s AV
Women’s AV USA

Children’s AV
AV children’s Games
Children’s AV
Children’s Art
Children’s Programs
Children’s TV
Comic AVs
Games
Kids AV
Students AV

AV Forums
AV Clubs
AV Discussions
AV forums
AV Newsgroups
AV Blogs
AV Podcasting

AV – Pitching Ideas
AV – Pitching ideas
AV Directors
AV Distributors
AV presentations

Web AV
Web AV
Online AV
Web AVs
AV Character Agents
AV AV clips
AV Streaming AV
AV books - Internet
Web AV Software
AV Banners
AV Signs

AV Festivals
AV Festivals
UK
USA
World
AV Societies

AV Competitions
AV competitions
AV Awards

AV Contracts
Selling AV
AV Contracts
AV Agents
Scriptwriting Agents
Character Licensing
AV Acquisitions
AV Unions

Miscelaneous AV
AV Cards
AV Ecards
Favicons
Emoticons
AV Selections
AV Collectibles
AV Acting
AV Oddities
AV Screen Savers
Screen Capture Programs
AV for Sale
AV Auctions
AV Swimming
AV Reviews
Stop Frame
AV templates
AV Science Fiction
AV Fantasy
Flash AV tutorials

Free and cheap AV software
AV Freeware
AV Shareware
AV Demos
Free Web AV

AV Production
AV Features
AV Industry
AV Producers
AV production
AV Production Budgetting
AV Production Companies UK
AV Production Companies USA
AV Production Pipeline
AV Production Processes
AV Series
AV Studios
Independent Productions
Pre-Production
Post Production

AV in Advertising
AV Commercials
AV in Advertising
AV in Religion
Arts Television
Promotional AV

Computer Games
AV Games Designers
Computer Games Books
Computer Games Clubs
Computer Games Inventors
Computer Games makers
Computer Games Societies


AV Networks
Eefoof
AV Networks
Google AV
Internet AV
Movie Networks
Short AV Networks
Underground AV
YouTube

AV Comics
AV comics
Manga
web comics
web comic list
web comic directory

AV History
AV History
AV History USA
AV History UK
AV History France
Optical Toys
AV Archives

Computer AV
AV h-anim
AV Holograms
AV Rendering
AV spline
Computer AV
Computer AV Blogs
Computer AV Clubs
Computer AV Companies
Computer AV Glossary
Computer AV History
Computer AV Laboratories
Computer AV Languages
Computer AV programming
Computer AV programs
Computer AV Research
Computer AV Societies
Computer AV Studies
Computer AV Studios
Computer AV Techniques
Computer AV Tools
Computer Animators
Computer AV
Motion AV
Virtual Reality

Special Effects AV
SFX AV
Special effects AV
Morphing software

Audio-Visual technology
Digital Audio-Visual

AV Work
AV Ability
AV Careers
AV Instructor
AV Jobs
AV Positions
AV Talent
AV Work
AV Vacancies
Mandy
AV co-op
AV Careers
Shooting People
Talent Circle

Also check Cartoons*, Audio-Visual*, and Multi AV*

AV Science
AV Architecture
AV Astronomy
AV Astronomy
AV Biology
AV Calculations
AV Charts
AV Chemistry
AV Climate
AV Cryptology
AV Demonstrations
AV Earth
AV Electrical
AV Graphs
AV Math
AV Meteorology
AV Ornithology
AV Passwords
AV Physics
AV Planet
AV Predictions
AV Sport
AV Stars
AV Tables
AV Temperature
AV Topology
AV Universe
Architecture AV
Biology AV
Engineering AV
Legal AV
Medical AV
NASA
Science AV
Technical AV

AV Abroad
AV Argentina
AV Asia
AV Belgium
AV Canada
AV China
AV Denmark
AV Egypt
AV Finland
AV France
AV Germany
AV India
AV Iran
AV Israel
AV Italy
AV Japan
AV Middle East
AV North Korea
AV Norway
AV Pakistan
AV Russia
AV Scotland
AV South America
AV South Korea
AV Sweden
AV Thailand
AV Wales
AV West Indies

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Film Data Base

Film Books
Film books
Film Publishers
Film Manuals
Film Publications

Film Journals
Film journals
Film magazines
Film ezines
Film Guides
Film Reports
Film Library Catalogue

Film References
Film Headings
Film Notices

Film Editing Tools
Film editing tools

Input and Output devices
Film cameras
Web cameras
Film capturing

Film Exhibitions
Film Museums
Film exhibitions
Film Shows

Film Projects
Film Projects
Film workshops
Community Services links
Community TV UK
Environment links
Healthy Eating links
Home Safety links
Police information links
Sport for children links

Film People
Film masters
Film Artists
Film Designers
Film music composers
Film Writers
Film Producers
Film Directors

Film Studies

Film Certificates

Film courses
Film degrees
Film exams
Film qualifications
Film Theory
Free Film lessons
Film scholarships
Film Colleges
Film Colleges UK
Film Colleges USA
Online Film Courses
Film Documentaries

Film Psychology
Film Psychology
Child Psychology
Film tutorials

Film in the Curriculum
Film in Education
Film in the Curriculum
Film definitions
Film for Children
Film for kids
Film Glossary
Teaching Film
Film Tutorials
Optical Toys
Film for Special Needs
Film Arts Education
Film School Directory
Film Headings
Film tutorials

Film Techniques
2d Film
3D Film
Film Dolls
Film Figures
Film Graphics
Film Illusion
Film Layouts
Film Photo
Film Plugins
Film Practice
Film Projectors
Film Titling
Film toolsets
Film Tricks
Film Illusion
Computer Film
Experimental Film
Limited Film
Model Film
Movie Making Film
Optical effects
Optical printers
Performance Film
Puppet Film
Rotoscoping
Time Lapse Film
Traditional Film

Film Libraries
Film Sources
Film library
Film libraries
Film Animals
Faces
Machines
Weather
Buttons
People
Transport
Film cycles
Flash Film
Flash Film tutorials
Flash movies
Film Collections
Film Listings

Film Data Bases
Film Databases
Film data banks
Film Research
Film Data base links
Audio Visual Data Base
Audio Visual Links
Multimedia database
Multimedia Links
Film Taxonomy
Film Indexes
Film Bibliographies
Film Biographies
Film Statistics
Film Registers

Film Funding
Film Funding
Film Grants
Film Funding
Film Grants
Film Materials
Film materials
Film Supplies

Film Equipment
Film capture cards
Film Equipment
Film Light boxes
Film line testers
Film rostrums
Film suppliers
Editing systems
Home Recording
Rostrum cameras

Sound for Film
Actors in Film
Film Recording
Film Sound mixing
Music for Film
Sound sfx
Sound Special Effects
Sounds for Film
Voice-Over Actors

Animal sounds
Animal sounds downloads
Animal sounds for kids
Animal sounds midi
Animal sounds mp3
Animal sounds online
Animal sounds.wav
Animals

Machine sounds
Machines noises
machine sounds
machine sound effects

Weather sounds
Weather sounds
weather sound effects
weather sound fx
weather sound files
weather sounds wav

Writing for Film
Film Slideshows
Film Glossary
Film Scriptwriting
Film scriptwriting
Flow Charting
Graphic Novels
Photo Strip writing
Pre-visualisation
Pre-visualization
Societies for Writers
Storyboard software
Storyboard templates
Storyboards
Film Scriptwriting
Visualisation
Visualization
Writing Dialogue
Writing Fantasy
Writing for Film
Writing Graphic Novels
Previs
Writing Video Games
Writing for Children
Writing Advertising

Women’s Film
Women’s Film USA

Children’s Film
Children’s Film
Children’s Programs
Children’s TV
Kids Film
Kids Film Projects

Students Film
Students Film

Film Forums
Film Clubs
Film Discussions
Film forums
Film Newsgroups
Film Blogs
Film Podcasting

Film – Pitching Ideas
Film – Pitching ideas
Film Directors
Film Distributors
Film presentations

Web Film
Web Film
Online Film
Web Films
Film Character Agents
Film clips
Film Streaming video
Film books - Internet
WebFilm Software

Film Festivals
Film Festivals
UK
USA
World
Film Societies

Film Competitions
Film competitions
Film Awards

Film Contracts
Selling Film
Film Contracts
Film Agents
Scriptwriting Agents
Character Licensing
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Robots and People


Those of us in the Animation industry have always known that robots understand humans, just as much as animals and objects can think and talk. It seems that Scientists - sceptics that they are - have just gotten around to knowing it as well, and are now building robots that do understand us. Have a look at http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Technology/2006/11/25/2488865-ap.html, and don't forget to pass it on to any robots you know.

Although there are some people who feel that people don't understand people, and that is why the world is in such a state, perhaps robots can explain to the rest of us why we do what we do.

Of course, we (people) are a bit afraid that robots will one day take over the world. It seems that animated creatures are on the way to doing just that, as this year has seen an explosion of animated movies, probably the biggest release of any year. But why?
It could be that computers have reached a point where they can produce an animated movie that is comparable in cost and time to a live-action movie. This is the spin-off from libraries that allow characters created for one movie to be recycled for others. It could be that audiences are tired of the big action-packed kill-em-all movies. On the other hand it could be just market forces. A hit animated movie has great merchandising potential, which is rare for a live-action film.

Animated shorts are not missing out either. Waste you time looking at some animated jokes.

Stan

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Animated Tattoos

There's a Marx Bros movie with Harpo opening his shirt to show an animated tattoo on his chest. I have a vague idea it was a dog coming out of its kennel.

the other day - for no reason at all - I recalled the scene, and wondered if tattoos could in fact be animated. I know that certain fish and reptiles can change the colour of their skin, so in theory, they might be able to do it, though they would have no reason to.

Of course, all I needed to do was look up 'Animated Tattoos' and find that not only has it been done, but the idea has been around for quite a while; I never cease to be amazed.

Not only can the tattoo be animated, it can be changed by reprogramming. The potential for these seems endless. Apart from identification, one might hire ones body out to advertisers like celebrity tennis players do with their clothes.
The next stage is to add a soundtrack. Anyone betting it can't be done?

At last it's happened!!! - once again. 3D has hit the TV screen.
Of course, anyone who follows these things will give a big sigh and list previous times it has happened; and I can't say that I've actually seen the latest system working, but you can find out all about it at:
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/11/18/forget-hdtv-the-future-is-3dtv/

Galloping technology has reached a point where nothing seems impossible, and technhologists are now the Wizards and Prophets of the TechnoGods, so it was not such a surprise when I came across the article http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/11/atheists_the_ne.html suggesting that Bill Gates might be considered as President.

I, for one would vote for him, if they could prove that electronic voting machines were foolproof.
It is not on the basis of his political acumen, but because I have a pretty good idea of his interests, and they are much closer to mine than any other president I know. But then I voted for Mrs Thatcher when she first came to power, and she had been a Chemist.

So I may end up settling for one of the latest Japanese Androids that look human enough to fool most people from a few feet away; have a vocabulary of around 40,000 words, and do as they are told (at least for the time being).

Stan

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Signs of Things to Come

I was once picked up one night by the police for driving my moped on a Motorway. I had turned off at a busy junction that had lights and signs everywhere, and I was confused. The police told me that 'The signs were large enough to see so I should not have made the mistake', then let me off with a caution.

The next night I went to the junction again to see why I had missed the signs; In spite of looking at a huge sign showing the directions, I couldn't read anything because lights from the other signs reflecting on each other made several of them unreadable.

I doubt whether that excuse would have stood up in Court, but at the time I thought there must be a better way of helping drivers. There is; you can see it at
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448747,00.html

Briefly, it is to do away with signs, signals, and the plethora of flashing commands that distract rather than help drivers. Hopefully the next stage will be to cut down on the animated adverts that now decorate bus stops, shop signs, and poster sites.

Another way to help drivers is get more people off the road. We all know that is 'other drivers' who are the cause of all traffic problems. Well, animation plays its part there as well. Software originally designed for Morphing is used for Face Recognition and prevents banned drivers from applying for licences under another name.

I remember a 'Columbo' detective plot from the 1970s where a driver's alibi was that he could not have been at the scene of the crime as he had been caught on a traffic camera for crossing a red light. He had an accomplice wear a photo of his face, and deliberately cross the lights.

Of course, Columbo caught him out because photos reflect light in a different way to faces. But imagine what it will be like when traffic cameras use facial recognition so your number plate, car make, and face are all recognised in one go. It would even have Big Brother looking over his shoulder.

Stan

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Fairy Tales

Hot on the heels of yesterdays Blog about writing for animation, todays news at http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20061117top10animated reinforces my views.
This is a review of Warner Bros 'Happy Feet', which I haven't seen, but you can get a taste of at http://www2.warnerbros.com/happyfeet/.

I was always a great Warner Bros fan. Their cartoons were obviously aimed at adults; how many kids really get the point of Bugs Bunny gags? Writing for adults and designing for children is a classic formula in animated movies.

There was a time when Fairy Tales were written as moral tales to warn the young and the unholy of the evils of the world, and the punishment awaiting the wrongdoers. With the passing of time, the messages got lost - or did they?

The theme of so many Animated features is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which translates into 'The Good' (and beautiful), 'The Bad and Ugly'; we know that bad people are ugly because so many classic animated movies have told us so. True the Queen in Snow White was beautiful, but actually ugly inside, on the other hand in 'Beauty and the Beast', the Beast is beautiful inside.

But there are exceptions. Baloo the Bear in Jungle Book is lovely, if not beautiful. We have beauty competitions, but we don't have 'Lovely' competitions. The problem is we can't measure niceness.

What we can measure to a limited extent is how interesting a person is, and more importantly how close they are to ourselves. I note that Social Networking sites are increasingly using animation to attract attention and say "Hey, look at me, I may not be beautiful but I'm fun".

It may be a very subtle thing that animation is used in this personal way, but I'm sure it's the toe in the door. You can already buy avatars to sell your goods and services, I guess you'll be able to buy them to sell yourself - if it hasn't already been done.

Stan

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Tail Wags Dog Makes News

The downside of being a scriptwriter is that you mentally rewrite movies as you are watching them. Unlike a novel, a film script - as presented by the writer - is unlikely to survive in a recognisable form once it is handed over to the Producer.

This is because just about everyone working on a movie thinks the writing part is basically inspired day dreaming rather than a craft, and will add their two-cents worth if they get the chance. I once worked with a Producer who took a script credit just for changing the title!!!

Of course, there are movies that do not require much of a script. 'James Bond' is one that comes to mind. Everyone knows the story before they see it; it really a matter for the Special Effects dept to come up with the goods.

And as Animated movies have drifted away from simple storylines, there is more accent on SFX now, so it was with some interest I noted the article http://www.jeffpidgeon.com/2006/11/animation-glut-stories-is-there-glut.html which suggests the tide has turned, and that audiences have seen it all when it comes to 'All action No story' content.

But on the other hand another article at http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=6151 deal with Warner Bros merging its Special Effects dept with the main film units. The logic is that if SFX plays such a big part in action movies they are 'The Star', so there is a thin line between producing effects for a Production Company, and being the Production Company. The tail is wagging the dog, and it likely to continue.

Where will it end? The merging of Animation and Live-Action has passed the point where the audience is entertained simply by SFX. No doubt Production Companies looking for the next trend in blockbusters will - as a last resort - turn to looking for good stories. I can't wait.

Stan

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Air Guitar


Happy Birthday World Wide Web - 16 today - and like all teenagers - confident of going onwards and upwards but not quite sure where. I was over 60 when the Web was born, but cannot now imagine what life would be like without it.

Just today I came across yet another marvel; A T-Shirt that you can don and play Air Guitar.
There have been other 'computerised' Air Guitars, which work on the basis of Motion Graphics as used for 3D animation, but this one uses Intelligent Textiles; similar in principle but more sophisticated. In this Blog of 20th October, I reported on a T-shirt with a built in screen, so we are getting close to becoming walking computers.

My interest in the Air Guitar is that I am a strummer myself and use guitar programs that teach by having animated scales and chords. I have seen robots that play piano quite well, and knew of someone who used a midi-keyboard to operate theatre lighting.

One of my pet themes is to be able to create movies in the way one can write scripts. It requires some form of visual input device rather like the above T-Shirt instead of the network of attached wires used in Motion Graphics. Perhaps future T-shirt will have on them 'Been there, done that, now watch the Movie'.

Stan

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Future Shock

How would you like to see what the future holds for you? Well you can - in a sort of way that is. A program with the springtime name of APRIL lets you see what you might look like at some distant time; the Christmas of your life.

Forensic animation has been used for a while to help visualise missing people and see what they might look like after some years. It's also used to see what dead people might have looked like alive. A gruesome subject but one that will play an increasingly useful role in changing our behaviour if the health authorities have their way.

The above program can indicate what you will look like in a few years if you choose a decadent life style. I recently saw examples of it on TV when certain celebrities who punish their bodies in various ways from drug taking to excessive fitness regimes were shown as they are now, and how they will be in twenty years time. I can image a sneering image of ones aged self staring back from the screen and saying "Look what you've done to me you idiot".

The program would have obvious uses in the Movie world to show how actors might age in a role. It might also have a slightly more sinister use if we secretly checked out how our partners might look in the future.
I know that similar programs have been used to morph the faces of parents to show what their unborn child might look like, but have never seen whether this actually works.

Of course this does put an emphasis on beauty, and we intuitively feel that two beautiful parents will produce a beautiful child, but apparantly not, though 'beautiful' parents do tend to have 36% more chance of having a girl child. I'm not sure what it all means, but animators looking for new directions in the industry might check out beauty salons or mortuaries for vacancies.

Stan

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Friday, November 10, 2006

Being Funny

I understand that Science has seven big fundamental questions of the order 'How did Life start'. I can't remember what the other six are, but one of them must surely be 'Why are some people funny and others not'. I am happy to say that Science has now solved this problem, with the little help from its animation friends and a morphing program.

"The characteristics of a feminine face imply that the person may be agreeable and co-operative, which can be causal in our first impressions of comedians as being friendly and funny."
Dr Little used computer software to blend together 179 different facial aspects of 20 top comedians, resulting in the "perfect comedy face".

And picked Ricky Gervais as having the perfect comedy face - so that proves it.
Find out more at: "http://www.itv.com/news/entertainment_0e6a2a3f4a4578cb05bb63d81a59b4f7.html

I would like to see the system applied to Politicians, and a few others who we might put our trust in.


A recent study regarding 'Prejudices and what we look like' can be found at http://www.badscience.net/?p=219. It supports the obvious in that we are attracted to beautiful people, but that is partly because - as those of us in the movie business know - the good are beautiful and the bad are ugly. Disney made a mint out of it; and anyone working in the Animation industry is aware that a Cartoon's face is its fortune.

The constant reinforcement of what is Good and Bad stemming from the worlds of advertising, movies, and fashion may be conditioning our brains in a way that Religion did in history.

If computer games are making children violent then animation has a lot to answer for. On the other hand, if animation can define the 'Perfect Comedy Face' then perhaps there is a 'Perfect Tragedy Face', or a perfect face for any attribute you can think of.

It would certainly be handy for checking passport photos, Internet dating photos, and personal photos for our CV, but I can see the possibility of plastic surgery opening up new fields of expertise with body parts as yet unexplored.


Stan

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Man Bites God

A few posts ago I mentioned advances in movie projectors and referred to projecting onto clouds. One reader - Deborah Kelly - sent me an image of her work doing just that(http://www.bewareofthegod.com/?cat=9).

But what was of more interest was her work as an Activist-Artist.
Having 'Beware of the God' projected in Heaven seems a good way of getting the message across, bearing mind the recent trouble with the Prophet Mohammed cartoons published in Denmark. No one questions the power of Political cartoons; apart from their instant summing up of a situation, they are globally recognised. It is a power that has yet to reach its full potential.

The 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' made the ultimate blasphemy of having God as a Super-computer - it is a belief that gains adherents daily - so it was interesting to note that scientists who build such machines are turning to animation for the next divine upgrade.

It seems that the chips that power computer games are currently the most powerful ones around, and will be the basis for the next Supercomputers, but they will not be for playing games, only rather boring things like curing diseases so the world become over-populated, and designing bombs to cure the problem.

As we all know, there is only one problem in the world - other people - and computer games at least allow us to live in virtual worlds where other people either live by our personal standards or get zapped for not trying. Someone - whose name escapes me for the moment - said "All the Worlds a stage". My guess is that it's a computer game, or soon will be.


Stan

ps. Some of you might be interested in http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=24217&in_page_id=2

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Back in the 1950s some experiments were done on using movies as anaesthetics with some success, but as far as I know this method was never used in hospitals.

While working at the Canadian Film Board in the early 1960s I met Norman McClaren, the experimental film maker, and asked if he thought films could be used in this way. I got a record on self-hypnosis, and he had some experimental films with concentric circles gradually shrinking. We put them together and showed the result. It made many people seasick!!!

I never pursued that line again, but later worked in advertising when Subliminal Advertising was tested. It was so successful that it was banned, or supposedly so, but one doesn't know if it actually was, but 'Placement Advertising' is perfectly legal, so in effect the method is still being used.

I have used it in animation as a Special Effect. If you want to create a disturbing image you can colour it with two very close colours and let them flicker. It is not visibly noticeable but mentally upsetting.

These ideas came to mind recently when reading about Spam mail. It seems one way to fool Spam filters is to have the background colour actually several very close colours.
You can write white text on a very slightly off-white background and mentally take it in without actually seeing it; a hi-tec invisible ink. And text can easily be implanted into an image. This is a common encryption method.

Forgetting Conspiracy Theories of us all being brainwashed, could such methods be used as anaesthetics? Could it be a way to control crowds with flashing lights? Could it be used in education? Whatever, there is no doubt that Animation has come a long way from funny cartoons.

Stan

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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Biometrics

Ideas are bit like buses, you wait for ages then three come along at once. One idea that has been around for quite a while is computer odor recognition. This week I saw a computer being used to transmit a smell using a PC. You click on an image of a flower or whatever, and the smell is transmitted.
My first thought - naturally - is how could that be used in animation? One idea would be to link it to animated Greeting cards for birthdays, Christmas, and the like.

My second thought is how could it be abused by hackers. Well, they could spam you with nasty smells I suppose, but smells might also be the ultimate password. Check
http://ezinearticles.com/?Biometrics---Customer-Friendly-Computer-Security&id=106788

Another problem is that smells aren't easy to pin down. You can say something smells like a rose, but what does a meadow smell like after the rain? You need an image of a meadow, and sorting images out has been another problem waiting to be solved, and perhaps it now has; or so they say at
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/11/02/tech-imagetag-061101.html

The Gadget Show is the show to see for all those gadgets that you cannot imagine anyone buying. This week an inflatable church big enough to hold sixty people (could be a cinema), and yet another attempt to make a 360 degree cinema screen so that you feel you are in the centre of the action.
Of course, Multi-screens have been around for very many years, but the main problem is having projectors both small enough to fit into the cinema, and synchronising them. Both problems now easily solvable; it only requires suitable stories to make use of them now.

Stan

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Silent Voices


Have you ever had to get your movies translated into another language? Subtitles are not great because you miss the action while reading them. Dubbing is not all that good as it is usually obvious that the lips are not in sync with the sound. In live-action the background actors can sometimes get by saying 'Rhubarb, rhubarb' and making suitable gestures, but it's a problem yet to be solved.

As I am severely deaf, I have learnt to lip read to a limited extent. I never took lessons, but often watch TV with the sound off. It works OK with news readers but not so well with actors; so I am always interested in new ideas related to hearing.

One idea I read about yesterday at http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19225755.800-its-the-next-best-thing-to-a-babel-fish.html describes a method whereby the speaker simply mouths the sounds in one language and it gets instantly translated into another language.

The method is not yet perfect, but the potential for the Movies is fantastic. As it depends on facial movements instead of sound, then an actor could be connected to many machines and do translations into dozens of languages at once. A step further would be to record the facial movements for a given actor and apply these to an avatar. For the technically minded you can look at http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/papers/ACM-postr3.pdf dealing with Virtual Reality.

What will they think of next? Well, if you want to find out then take a look at Lip shapes .
If you just want to amuse yourself then try http://www.dookyweb.com/avatars.swf

Stan

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Back to the Drawing Board

A couple of months ago I went to the Royal College of Art End of Year exhibition with some animation friends. We noted that there was much more traditional illustration and animation than in the previous years that had exploited new technology.

I wondered if 'Technology' has now been assimilated enough to the point where it is now taken for granted, and we could now get back to sweat and talent. I hope so because such work has more soul to it.

I was interested to note that this approach can still (and hopefully will continue) to be viable. The animated feature movie just released 'Romeo & Juliet - Sealed with a Kiss' is a full length feature animated by one man - Phil Nibblelink - made in 4 1/2 years using Flash animation. You can look it up at http://www.romeoandjulietfilm.com/

There is a growing call for movie makers to make their own movies, particularly for presenting Social problems. One site at http://www.google.com/educators/globalwarming.html is looking for ideas to solve global warming. If you are interested, a good place to start is Global Warming.

Stan

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