Been a bit Crazy at work{my day Job} this last week.....Our projects Unexpectadly on shakey ground and I have had to think of new options....
Dober's starting to work on the engines first.....welding away....I used a mini flash light to do the
flashing effect illuminating the engine{sparks} area as I animated. I started with a white type of light but then realized that it took on a bit too close to the blue screen color.
I then put an orange gel on the light to make sure my KEY didn't get confused....this worked nicely. This was a 10 second shot and got me through this last weeks Quota.
After a few nights of fixing and maintaining Dober's Heads....{they are all beat up and I have been putting it off}....hes been back to acting and telling our story.
I also had to do a P.O.V camera move that worked out pretty well with my trusty Manfrotto geared head. With some eyeballing and Dragon Stopmotion software I was able to do the animation fairly cleanly.
Shel putting the first Hole in the fleaship for upcoming shot.In Proving that GLD still has legs.......I'm glad to announce that GLD was accepted to its first London festival as well as Its first Russian{Moscow} fest. This is very cool to me that its reaching so far. We are Planning a weekend at Lake Arrowhead Film fest in a few weeks as well. This should be fun!
in our continuing stop mo adventures -
We took a trip over to our Intern's {Justin Connelly}FIRST FILM production over at USC.
Justin Connelly has had an Incredibly Hard deadline to make over the last weeks and has been working Nonstop to make it. He created 2 foam latex puppets One clay cotton puppet for gang of kids leaving school.We were very excited to see his set and Puppets Painted and the very begining of the first animated shot. He is also geared up to when finished get his film scored by our own Robert Litton. I have to say that Robert has 3 stopmotion short films he is scoring soon and he seems to have cornered the market in Stopmo Music!
Its exciting times for all involved....and Its really thrilling to watch justin walking on his own in the early parts of his stop motion Journey.
Shel's Still working the Special features and We are getting CLOSE...
more to come.
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