I read this super cool article, Now lets talk about it.

As some of you may know or have figured out I absolutely love Action-Adventure movies. I know it might seem odd that a film student likes the go fast and typically not cinematic Action-Adventure, but that is just me. I have loved action and adventure in all forms of media since I was a little kid, and when I was around 12 my dad introduced me into the wonderful world of Mission Impossible. I fell in love instantly with the run and go of the whole story as well as the death defying stunts they pulled. I soon had watched all four, and yes in my fanatic and deep knowledge the second movie is the worst one and it should not be watched for anyone who thinks they should. Anyway back to the topic at hand.

One element that all of those movies have in common is Masks. In each of the Mission Impossible movies someone uses some kind of advanced mask to impersonate another character. I know you were probably expecting me to say something like Tom Cruise or excellent action shots and fight scenes, but that is not what I am here to talk about. I was looking at No Film School when I came across an interesting article about an After Effect tutorial to create an effect of a person taking off a mask to reveal a different face.

Now I investigated and after a throughly interesting video, it was just a montage of all the times they used the masks in the first three Mission Impossible movies, I read on into the article and found a link to a video made by Freddie Wong and the Rocket Jump Film School. I have linked the video here and I think for those of you with a lot of experience in After Effects this video will be very helpful and cool, but for those of you who haven't really used the program this video will be tricky. It does provide a useful explanation of how to create this effect, but it uses advanced techniques that I am not familiar with in my limited experience.

Now the article itself is short, but it is interesting and I found it very informative. I will like it here for any who want to read the article and watch the video. I will admit that this is not the usual article for a film student, but I feel it relates to my passion in Action-Adventure and includes an interesting tutorial for those who are curious. I promise that I will be back to my normal blogging and talking about some of the cool stuff I've been up to and what not, but for now I will leave you with this interesting article and video and the knowledge of my Action-Adventure fascination.