Sunday, July 15, 2012

Sandstorm and More

Hey Guys!

been back to lots of freelance again...

still moving forward on the Film but definitely not easy to squeeze more time out of my days...

I have about 1 more month of work on Hell and Back- in the evenings - and my Current Project Playstation All Stars during the days -  then things will ease up considerably...

here is one of the shots from the last few weeks evenings.




Another Milestone Has been met -A cotton ball sandstorm......and It got past the Quality assurance of shel for the films final cut.

This was somthing 2.5 years ago that me and shel put into the story that we had no idea of how we were gona make happen......I just kept saying to myself- We will figure it out when the time comes....

POW- the time was now...so

It was a 2 night shoot due to just working with so much cotton and physically moving it trhough the space........I lost the pics of the process due to a computer meltdown...but here were a few from my phone.

I ended up taking the cotton from a pillow and spray painting it with a matching color

....then I layed out a bunch of cotton to figure out My cameras Field of view.

 This would show me how much cotton at each stage of the approach and how tall I would need it to be to cover the Characters.


after figureing the basics out it was all set up...and I was ready to go for it.

heres one of the storm shots....



so Moving forward- the storm will clear....and new Hi jinks will arrise in the final chapter of the
film...Including a miniature crash set so....cool stuff to come.

In Paranorman News!!

The awesome SNEEK PEEKS are starting to roll out....

This first one struck me deep- I love the approach of showing the poeple who make these films and what they have in common with norman...Fantastic! and somthing even the coolest person has felt at some point in life....

I watched it right before bed and was so excited about it all I could not sleep for hours...thinking about it.

and In case you didn't catch it....I am animating the dance scene with Alvin- the bully near the end of the video.


here are some more fantastic videos that are coming out...This is Chris Butler the Writer and co Director of Paranorman.



Heres a peek at the facial setup-



and Here is

a bus running through Holly wood with you know who on the side...So cool!



        jriggity