The effects he achieved inspired the generation of filmmakers who produced the digital-effects-laden blockbuster films of the 1980s and beyond.
The gradient effect he achieved using three different paint colors is just so cool.
I loved the disorienting effect he achieved with those moments, how time sort of seemed to become unglued, and I thought it'd work particularly well with this kind of rotoscope animation because it gives the eye slightly more time to adjust and register each frame as a full painting.
He painted chiefly in ink, leaving the colouring to his assistants, and he was famous for the three-dimensional, sculptural effect he achieved with the ink line alone.
Having thus distracted both himself and the reader from what they certainly know but would prefer to forget, Milton steps back and reflects on the effect he has achieved: "For so to interpose a little ease, / Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise".
Mr. Missé's foot trills (especially the rippling heel-and-toe ones), his skip-pounces, his sudden shakes of feet and pelvis together beneath steady shoulders all deserved the applause they won, and I admired more than ever the whiplash effects he achieves by flourishing a raised foot to and fro, left and right, with astonishing attack.
It is, by now, a commonplace, but one that bears repeating: in 1956, Lewis had the idea for a closed-circuit TV camera to be mounted beside the movie camera so that, as a performer, he (and not just the director) could see the effect he was achieving on-screen, and he submitted a patent application for such a system.
In this painting, Hals displays his unmistakable genius for mise-en-scène; the dramatic effects he achieves here set him apart from most other painters.
But I am not sure that this is the effect he wishes to achieve.
The phrase "door into the dark" comes from the first line of a poem about a blacksmith, a shape maker, standing in the door of a forge and, as a title, it picks up on the last line of Death of a Naturalist, where the neophyte sees a continuity between the effect he wants to achieve in his writing and the noise he made when he used to shout down a well shaft "to set the darkness echoing".
Writing about the difficulties of his craft, he reviews his own career and describes an artistic crisis he experienced while working on his long-awaited and much-publicized "nonfiction novel," "Answered Prayers". The crisis began with his feeling that his writing was too dense for the effects he was achieving.
