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Hey. Here are some phrases, vocabulary and interesting things I’ve collected from differents English sources in order to improve my skills in this language.
Here they are:
| INTEREST | PHRASE IN CONTEXT | SOURCE |
| Only more so | which was marked by making fantastical situations look photoreal with vfx — only more so. | Article about Lost’s VFX
http://vfxworld.com/index.php ?atype=articles&id=3982 |
| Back and forth | The scene also required more back-and-forth than normal | |
| In the latter case | In the latter case, the crew used stills for the background instead of plates. | |
| to sell the fact | It’s about paying enough attention to detail to sell the fact that he’s there | |
| Gross | Now I’m able to direct Smokey’s gross movements | |
| Seamless | Sometimes it’s so seamless that even the people in post-production don’t realize we’re doing it | |
| To get a kick out of sth | We get a kick out of that. | |
| to be roughly accurate to | We tried to be roughly accurate to what it would’ve looked like | |
| It is a pleasure verb+ING | It’s a pleasure being your guest | English courses:
Phrases extracted from the articles and the transcripts |
| To be beyond the control of sby | They are beyond the control of the team | |
| Involved in | I don’t remember, I’ve juste picked them out from my notes | |
| There is benefis to verb+ING | ||
| Keep me posted | ||
| To be caught red-handed | ||
| Flowlessy | ||
| Bear the burden | ||
| Mogul | ||
| Big kahuna | ||
| It depends on the day | ||
| upheld | ||
| tremendous | Lyn says that there was a tremendous amount of work that needed to get done | Article about the VFX of the movie Wolverine
http://vfxworld.com/index.php? atype=articles&id=3975 |
| To be spread among | So, that explains how the work was spread among so many different facilities. | |
| to come up with | and we needed to come up with our version of what happens down under all that dust and smoke. | |
| To deem / to be deemed | but that was deemed to ‘gory’ for the rating | |
| gruesome | it needed to be creepy, but not gruesome | |
| learning curve | the whole Wolverine production process was a slight learning curve for Hood | |
| One should always | One should always aim to construct the model from four sided polygons | Tutorial about 3d modeling
http://www.secondpicture.com/ tutorials/3d/ 3d_modeling_of_a_human _head_3ds_max_01.html |
| In keeping with | In keeping with our theme of making a mess | Tutorial about 3d modeling
http://cube.phlatt.net/ home/spiraloid/tutorial/ modeling.html |
| Closely mimic | An edge loop closely mimics how real muscles work | |
| Relying on | Relying on canned effects can only take you as far as prebuilt methods normally do | Article about Houdini (software)
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/new-video-houdini-fluid-fx-t15951.html?t=15951 |
| To refrain from verb+ING | I refrain from using to many prebuilt techniques | |
| To jump between verb+ING | Brian Goodwin is 26 years old and is a FX TD working at Framestore in London where he jumps between using massive for crowds and Houdini for effects | |
| To have the hindsight of + time | Because we have the hindsight of 20 years and the knowledge that Apocalypse Now is embedded in the consciousness of the audience, if you want to play “The Ride of the Valkyries” over Vietnam, you’ve added an entire other reference layer that puts you in another space. | Interview of Zack Snyder about Watchmen, the movie
http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3933 |
| To let/get someone off the hook | You want the movie to be self-reflexive but not let the viewer off the hook completely. | |
| To wager | I would wager a lot that this would just be a plot-driven movie | |
| Of the noun+s mentioned, noun is the adj (superlative) | Of the forms already mentioned, object animation is the oldest, then direct manipulation animation, followed (roughly) by sequential drawings on multiple pages | Article about stop motion (wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion |
| a resounding success | The Haunted Hotel (1907) is another stop motion film by James Stuart Blackton, and was a resounding success when released | |
| To be useful in verb+ING | Stereoscopy is useful in viewing images rendered from large multi-dimensional data sets | Article about Stereoscopy (wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic |
| To learn the ropes | s conference chair, you start out early, learning the ropes for a year before putting together the team for your specific conference about two years out. | Interview of Ronen Barzel about the SIGGRAPH 2009
http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3967 |
| To kick into (high) gear | This provides the team time to lay out the direction for the conference so that everything’s ready to kick into high gear as soon as the previous conference ends. | |
| A sneak peek at | Let’s talk about this year’s theme, “Network Your Senses,” how ties into SIGGRAPH and give us a sneak peek at what’s new overall. | |
| This in turn led to somebody verb+ING | This in turn led to me chairing the Sketches program in 2004 and creating the Posters program. | |
| To be eager to verb | - that’s something I’m personally very eager to learn more about | |
| As good as gold | ||
| There is no sens verb +ING | But there’s no sense crying over every mistake |
Portal (video game) ending song |
| To run out of something | You just keep on trying till you run out of cake |
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| Fat chance | That was a joke ahah fat chance |
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