Filmgrab a free site to get stills from films as reference images

I have previously posted about ShotDeck, but it is a paid site, while I didn’t know about FilmGrab which is free. You can grab iconic images from films as reference shots, which can be very useful.

It claims to have 2500 films with 160K hand picked images.

Playing with it a bit, it is good, though could use a search versus just brows by film artist and category, but that is only a minor gripe. Well worth checking out.

Shotdeck a subscription based web site with high definition images from movies

So I have not subscribed to this (though I would love to), but this is a very cool idea. Shotdeck is a web site with a library of HD images from movies, that you can use for reference and share with other users. It is $99 a year of $12.95 a month. And you can get a 2 week free trial.

Honestly I am always looking for movie stills and they can be a huge pain in the ass to get, because of Copy Protection. I often find myself ripping a blu-ray just to make a screen shot to get reference images, so this is pretty incredible. I can really see a director subscribing to this to show a look that they want. Now this is mainly going to be for very cinematic shots because that is what they are going for here, but certainly I can see it’s uses.