Someone just sent me this video shot some days ago during a nice but cold day at Disneyland Paris. It was so cold that there were only a few people in the park, but that's not the problem. What is the problem is that apparently something unimaginable happened in Main Street U.S.A as a helicopter literally crashed in the center of Main Street! Don't worry, no one was hurt including the cameraman. I let you have a look at the video first and i'll be back after and tell you what really happened.
So, did this helicopter crash happened for real? Of course not! All this was done thanks to an amazing new iPhone app called Action Movie FX released recently by a company called Bad Robot Interactive. And when you'll know that the company was created by director J.J Abrams - yes, the one who created the Lost TV series and directed the last Star Trek movie or produced the latest Mission Impossible, you'll understand why the effects are so good. This Youtube video uploaded by MattsMacintosh tell you more about the app and show as well other special effects.
Two more examples with this car falling and crashing...
Or a Santa Claus literally blow up by a missile...
The app is extremely simple to use - it couldn't be more simple - the FX is add in less than five seconds and considering how fast the FX is done the result is pretty amazing. The app is FREE on the iTunes Appstore and include two FX and you can add four more through a very cheap in-app purchase. Kids are also having a lot of fun with this one, as you can expect.
Videos: copyright MattsMacintosh, Disney and more
Yeah Alain, great app for kids. Let's encourage them to enjoy watching things blow up and be destroyed.
ReplyDeleteI'm not trying to encourage anyone, especially kids, to blow up anything! It's just in the human nature to like to see explosions, etc... That's why blockbusters are so popular, we could discuss endlessly if it's a good thing or not that people like to see destruction, but it's in human nature and we can't help it.
ReplyDeleteAnd i strongly doubt that a kid who will blow up Sleeping Beauty castle with an iPhone app when he was 8 will be the next terrorist 20 years later, if this is what you mean...
Millions of people see violence in movies & play violent video games every day, yet it remains true that statistically speaking, very, very few people ever commit real-life acts that mirror those that they watch.
ReplyDeleteWhile I would prefer that there was less violence depicted in our culture, I do not believe our media is the root cause of actual violent acts—I think that most people have a very firm grasp on the difference between fantasy and reality.
It's amazing how nowadays there is always someone seeing a problem on everything.
ReplyDeleteAlain posts an article on his blog, showing us an interesting and completely harmless app, and there is someone criticizing him! It's getting worse every day!
@Marco: While this is probably not the appropriate forum for it, I'm perfectly OK with having a reasonable debate about important issues like violence in our media. Criticism can be constructive and insightful as long as it has some substance & thought behind it.
ReplyDeleteMyself, I find it interesting that we, as a culture, need to have "warrior" heros and experience an extreme level of violence in our games & movies. What does that say about our real lives?
Now back to the movie trailers!