Finally got this bugger online!

Ok earlier this year we made a documentary on how we made church news from the initial script writing to the final playback on a sunday. It covers everything from camera operation, post production skills, editor management and dealing with departments. I hope you guys enjoy it! I think it turned out alright!

So I wanted to bring to light some favourite directors of mine whom I like to call Lo-Fi directors. These are namely

• Spike Jonze (Where the wild things are, Adaptation),

• Michel Gondry (Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Be kind rewind)

• Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)

Despite any of the shortcomings any of these directors and their films show, there is definitely that element of charm behind the fact that they persue lo-fi techniques to tell their story. Reversing footage, compositing things optically, trick photography, using real sets instead of green screen. I think it’s really important that as directors and filmmakers that we don’t overshadow our films with just a ridiculous amount of high end technology and really find creative ways to express our stories. A common misconception is that ppl think that the audience wants us to make the images on screen we see look “real”. But the reality is ppl just want you to make it look cool. I do miss the days when I watched a movie and had no idea how it was done. Nowadays there is no mystery. It’s all done on computers! ha! well sorta…

Anyways I was going to do a tutorial on how to make that damned transformer but the reality is, it’s gonna take a while. (I mean frig, the rigging alone will just be one lesson). So I am going to have split it into parts. But in the meantime, here’s one I prepared earlier…

PS. Star Trek just came out on DVD and Bluray and man is it ever sweet! I wanna be Spock!!

So this week I had contracted the infamous swine flu (or so I think, they didn’t actually test me per say, they just gave me the drugs and sent me home). That being said, I was confined to my house for the next 3 days which were boring as hell! So I had to occupy my time somehow. And this is what I came up with!

Now this bad boy was wholly created in after effects. There is no 3d per say, although of course, good ol Optimus here is created using 3d solids in after effects, so technically it is 3d, but no external 3d apps.  I am not the greatest animator, but I am going to get some 3d animation tests on here eventually and in the foreseable future, show you guys how I created this bad boy!

stay tuned!