Hide , Shoot and Walk

The end is close .... well , kind of. After a BanHol break i got back to the Mac and made some more progress ... more details soon but here are some more pics. :)

Logo Animation

Created and animated in Vue. A great program for landscapes and terrain.

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue6/

The Hardest Working MacBookPro in the world!

Well , probably not but it seems like it .... it has turned into a one stop rendering workhouse for all of the backgrounds in the film ..... all of them are set now and are rendering as i speak ... should only take about 8 hours for all of them ...

In the meantime , i did a one off as a test .... and it is comped with the foreground ... so you could say , besides a bit of tweaking with the brightness , this is a still frame from the ACTUAL film! .. blimey ...

So , i reckon should be done by the end of May ... then onto the sound!

A Bit Of Fun

I thought it would be quite interesting to let you see the first rough cut i put together of the film. Hang on though , this is a green screen version i.e No backdrops , effects , music , CG inserts or proper dialogue. I have watched it a number of times though and it is quite weird and interesting in parts. The background noises make me laugh especially ... there's Ray doing a mean line holding a gun and you can hear happy gleeful birds chirping away in the background!! Surreal.

When you watch it , it will make little sense and you'll probably go away thinking what the hell was that piece of crap !? But i'm hoping if any amateur filmmakers drop by they will find it interesting.

The quality has been deliberately altered by the way so it will not be too big (Mb) for the blog.

The troublesome car sequence

Hmmmm , it has taken a while to get the 'look' right but i think i am finally there or there abouts ..... i have decided to post this as a movie sequence (even though i said i would only post stills) .... it is not the sequence that will be in the film , think of it as a bunch of clips cut together in random.

New Still ....

Doing tracking shots of someone walking against a backdrop actually proved to be easier than i thought .. :) A first for this project.

More Stills

Churnin them out at a rate of knots now :) ... yeah , i wish. Oh i remember the day i said to my friends , hey ... i am gonna make a film with green screen and CG backgrounds .... it'll be tricky but i reckon it will be ok .... !!! Damn it is HARD WORK!

Anyhoot , it's late ... here are 2 more pics from a section of the film i reckon is pretty much done now.

New Film Stills

Working hammer and tongs on the film at the moment and making some good progress. Here are a few more stills to give an idea how things are moving on. :)

The Cloakman's Lair V1

A rendered still (uncoloured) from one of the digital sets of my new short film.

Built in Sketchup and rendered in Kerkythea on a Mac.