Tag: eric jacobus
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Eric Jacobus’s live motion capture videogame stunt show at FestiGame is the first of its kind
In light of his performing stunts for Kratos in Sony’s 2018 hit God of War, Eric Jacobus was invited to participate at FestiGame in Santiago, Chile in early August. Jacobus was first asked to give a stunt demonstration and motivational talk, but then he saw the numbers: over 40,000 video game fans from all over Latin…
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Eric Jacobus Channels Akuma – But ditches the flip flops
Eric Jacobus is back with another entry in his Tekken In Real Life series, this time with Akuma from Tekken 7. Jacobus recently took a short break from producing the series while moving his studio again, but now that he’s settled in, the raging demon could be unleashed. Jacobus writes in the video’s description: Akuma’s moves are…
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Dan’s Movie Report Interviews Eric Jacobus About Blindsided: The Game

DMR: Talk about rehearsing the various fights: what are some of the new techniques and action you learned along the way? EJ: We start with the story. Walter has a sword, these guys have guns. You can’t make a long, intricate fight when it’s a sword versus a gun. We could do “gun-fu” or flail…
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The Movie Elite Interviews Eric Jacobus
As somebody who has now put together several films of your own, who have been your greatest creative inspirations? Who are your favorite directors or writers? Aside from the Vaudeville and Hong Kong masters, I love the simplicity of the 80s genre film. We all love directors like John Carpenter. We love the movers of…
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GoPro Hero3 Impressions from an Action Filmmaker’s Perspective
I bought my GoPro Hero3 Black Edition from Best Buy along with chest and head straps for the sole purpose of doing first-person action scenes. The FPS movie (“found footage”) genre is one of my favorites, and I think it’s criminally underused, especially in the action cross-genre, so my hopes have been to create solid action…
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Choose Your Weapon Level 2 – You Chose Banana!
Check out the latest episode of Choose Your Weapon. You chose banana, here’s the result! And for those who chose Nunchaku, here’s the result of that. Now decide between Ray Gun of Questionable Origin, or the lame Pistol.