Makin’ Ur Droids
I just read an Inktip script. Almost good. The "fun and games" and the "debate" sections were almost inverted. And of course there were way too many irrelevant characters who could have been condensed substantially and a lot of gratuitous zero gravity that we'd never be able to shoot.Iron Man ...
Post Mortem Alien Uprising
OK, here are my general notes on AU & what did and didn't work.What made the experience the most pleasurable of making that movie was having Maduka be in it and edit it. The Josh James script was good and emotionally clear in its direction in each scene.The center of ...
Noets
Following some blogs now, at the fault of Bill Cunningham, Christopher Sharpe is a horror filmmaker and apparently the other person who uses an Ambient slate, Brea Grant is an actor, also from Texas.*The latest news on movies we've made and are making:Presumably there are "catalog" sales in the works ...
"I am standing directly beneath the enemy’s scrotum."
OK, up until now io9's review of Transformers 2 was the funniest I'd read. But now I think that Topless Robot has put out the funniest review of Transformers 2. I lost it when I got to "Grrr."Thanks to Bill Martell.Oh and special bonus: today's weirdest video on the internets. ...
Perhapses
Maybe the Panasonic GH1 really might be worthwhile. Why? Because somewhere there are adapters for Canon FD lenses for it. That is... very... interesting...If you're British and you're confused about the name of the place you come from, here is a handy guide.A radar effect tutorial in AfterEffects.
Spoilment
A bit of a short film, Man vs Woman. Comes with robots and dinosaurs. Makes me feel even more strongly that the one dang thing we have to do is get our vfx up to snuff.Now for some spoilers regarding the novel Digital Plague by Jeffrey Somers.Spoilers.I mean, I'm going ...
Post-Mortem Clonehunter Shoot: Grip Edition
We have to do something about a dolly. The thing is that with those cheap-o dollys you can't really ride them and it's almost impossible to do a decent pan while also dollying (when you're operating the camera and the dolly.) The pans invariably get jerky and it's really annoying.A ...
Ranting
"Oh I really liked him when I was growing up so everything he did was perfect." STFU and get some critical distance. Michael Jackson sucked. He made bland MOR pop songs and sold a lot of records just as "independent promoters" were at their most powerful. Big deal. The Beatles? ...
Vampires are Coming Back
Vampires are coming back. Wish I had a vampire huntress picture. In any case, I saw the Undead movie in the theaters and was pretty impressed by it. The same dudes are making this movie Daybreakers. Hellowars is Star Wars characters as Hello Kitty characters. The 20th Century ...
Plague Digital
It's amazing to me the quality of the work that's out there. I just read Jeffrey Somers' Digital Plague (after fighting with the widget). I'm impressed by just the quality of the writing and the editing for something which is free online and put out there in the hopes that ...