TURBO Turkey

Hey guys!

  I had an awesome Thanksgiving Holiday and it was a SUPER productive week off .

Our game has officially released and its ready to make lots of kids and there PS3's happy this Christmas.....

I used some of my comp time from our games harsh development to properly enjoy my thanksgiving and make a BIG ole dent in the films progress.

and DENT it we did.....

OVER 1 MIN of finished footage toward the film....woooo hoo!!!! I shot every single night- and some days when shel was working. It was fantastic feeling to drop a shot in the edit almost every day.

Here is a couple of shots-

and flea after crash-

What a POWERFUL week....

and you know what guys.....the film Clicked- It really clicked

It works - the whole film works.....what an amazing feeling!!

and The part of the film that was most important to me.....works incredibly well....

I am High as a kite on the project and cant stop imagining the scoring our latest film and then releasing it to the world....

I felt such euphoria ....and such awe in the amount of work required to get to the point we are at now........we still have lots of work ahead but the real story all takes place on the planet surface...so I feel great relief in the meat of the story being done and working well.

.....moving forward....

I have 4 FULL finished chapters now...and am working on the epilogue for 4 remaining planet shots.

Then....WE STRIKE the set and launch into space.

Shel has those asteroids looking good.....and is designing cool ways to rig them up for animation. I am going to start previz on the intro camera work for the miniatures.

It looks like we will be able to start shooting space chase in just a short 3 weeks.....just in time for christmas vacation......I will be taking another week off just to concentrate on the film during the holiday.

Keep an eye out....I have some interesting ideas on Puppeteering the mini ships in a couple of shots....and Ill be sharing them here.

     wish us luck guys....its a House of MAGIC right now in our place....and we can see the finish line.

In PARANORMAN News- ITS out on DVD- BLU RAY and digital download. I got mine.....and I highly suggest you guys pick up your copy of this OSCAR contender and in my opinion - Best animated film of the year.

Tricks of the week-

Aedon Daddy- Team Rolls-

Dad- reverse swing bar front

        jriggity

MONTHS for SECONDS

Hey guys,

  Been very busy.....ofcourse.

Shels Car Died recently which has opened up the door to freelance again.....sigghhh...

I enjoy the work but definitely feel like I am on the treadmill paying billz all the time and not getting as much done as I would like....but!!

I did manage toget some BIG shots done as we creep closer to the finish line every week.

The latest shot I finished was a monster shot that was the very climax of months of work all coming together in a big way....as well as being the milestone of the Mini ships first screen appearance.

This shot represents months of work getting the mini ships ready....Shel Kicked major BUTT ...

This included-

-creating the set-

-Sculpting the ships in foam -

-Sculpt-Paint- MINI puppet Flea-

-Sculpt-Paint - MINI puppet Dober-

-Puzzleing -ship parts-  together for molding-

-coating- skinning them with Hard shell coating-

-Sanding them down smoothe shapes-
-making all the mini props-
-creating Rigging attachments-

-Molding-

-Casting-

-Resanding-
-Painting-Detailing-

-Making bucks for the Windshields-

-Having the windshields Vacuformed-

-Creating smoke and Blast cutouts-

- making winders for the small movements of the ships flying -

-Planning shot-

-Animating shot-

-Painting Out Wires for 300+ frames-
-Compositing in Backgrounds and drawing-animating masks for transition of Backdrop In After Effects-
-Doing Post effects-Dust sand- extra explosives-
-create Fake Dober ship shadow that was covered by my Bad rigging choice..ha!-
-Then doing all the POST effects all over again for the 3D second eye frames-Ugghhhhh-

 I am sure there are many many more parts of this process that I am glossing over....but you get my Point.

Is it worth it...YES!!! MAGIC......

BUT dang...it sure makes you think when your doing it......That  finished film is the BIG reward I am looking forward too.

So moving forward- I am headed into the garage tonight like most evenings....and Have some nice subtle acting shots that I am looking forward to creating....

In Future news-

Shel is starting to think about asteroids and the new set layout for the intro-

she has some intern help in painting the new asteroids that will populate the space Chase....heres some pics.

More to come....

          jriggity