Visual Effects and Creative Media Production News
December 28th, 2006
Well, it’s been an extremely busy season, which is why I haven’t made too many updates recently. And things are done yet! We’re gearing up for another day of Principal Photography tomorrow for Proof Positive. Our last shoot last week went very well and we’ll have some photos up soon.
In the meantime, I’ve got a VFX shoot to finish.
Until next time!
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November 26th, 2006
We just published the next episode of The Magic Lantern. Episode 004 features Adele Friel Rhindress, one of magician Harry Blackstone, Sr.’s assistants. She was Blackstone’s “Elusive Moth” in the show.
This interview was recorded at Bob Little’s Super Sunday convention in Philadelphia and was recorded as part of our Magic History Series, which was created to preserve the rich history of the art of magic, one story at a time.
Please enjoy it:
http://www.magiclanternblog.blogspot.com/
Also, there are links on the right side of The Magic Lantern’s site to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes so you can listen for free on your iPod. Enjoy!
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November 20th, 2006
I’m the Director of Photography for an independant short film called, “Proof Positive.” We are currently in the beginning of production. We began with the first day of principal photography on Saturday. These are a few shots from on set. We are shooting with the Panasonic DVX-100B.
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November 18th, 2006
I thought this was a RIOT! When my wife and I attended the caricature convention several weeks ago, we met so many great people there. One fantastic person and a great artist was Anthony, from Australia. While at the convention he did a caricature of me.
I must have been on my normal coffee dosage that day!
Compare to my normal face:
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November 14th, 2006
We’ve broadcast the second show of The Magic Lantern. While working on this show I started going through some archival footage for an exciting Show 3 and 4. In the meantime, enjoy this one!
http://magiclanternblog.blogspot.com/
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November 11th, 2006
Ok, this video is wrong in so many ways! I’ll warn you now. *Grin*
This was done for a client who owned a Mexican restaurant. He has a bartender who everyone knows simply as Paco. So the owner wanted to feature him. The rest is history.
I decided to create a digital, animated character. We were also on a crunch schedule. This was to start running during Monday Night Football, which was less than a week away. My wife designed the initial character on paper, then I modeled him in Lightwave. It’s similar to designing a puppet, except it’s all digital.
Once the character was done, I did a “matchmove.” This means that I had to match the actual camera movemements of the background plate to the digital set and CG camera. Once completed, I animated Paco and once finished, added him into the background plate.
Total animation time was around 2 full days (including modeling and animation). The rendering took a little longer, but we got the finished video to Comcast in time for Monday Night Football where it’s playing now!
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November 9th, 2006
Show number 1 of The Magic Lantern has been broadcast! Are you interested in magic, magicians and the rich history of magic? Get ready for a treat!
The Magic Lantern keeps the history of magic alive by featuring discussions with magicians and variety performers. Relive the rich history of magic with broadcasts that include interviews with top name magicians as well as guys that are relatively unknown, but working “in the trenches.”
Some of the guys we interview are known by most performers. Some are almost unknown. But all of their stories are unique and amazing in many ways. We want to bring those stories to you.
So hop on over to iTunes and subcribe for free to this new podcast. I’m a huge Mac fan, so this is optimized for iTunes. However, if you don’t have an iPod or iTunes, you can still easily listen. Just visit the link on the right column that says, “The Magic Lantern” and download the mp3 files to your computer to listen to. Feel free to burn them to a CD or download to your mp3 player.
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November 6th, 2006
Well, it took a few weeks (been really busy!), but I converted the Dorkboy animation I did over to YouTube’s server so you can watch it easier.
Several weeks ago, my wife and I went to a caricature convention in Orlando. The group was hosted by the National Caricature Network (or NCN). I entered this animation into the portfolio part of the convention sort of as a joke. I printed out each frame as a 4×6 inch photo at Walmart, then tied them together to form a flip book. It was great!
Anyway, here’s the animation!
It got plenty of laughs. Anyway, Dorkboy, as this character is being called, is going to be featured a bit more on the main site in the near future as the Reels in Motion site undergoes it’s makeover. I hope you like what changes have already taken place. I appreciate the emails everyone has sent!
Enjoy!
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October 18th, 2006
As you can see, the Reels in Motion site is undergoing an upgrade! The front page is being completely overhauled and isn’t finished yet!
The two characters on the home page right now are two original characters we designed as part of a project and website upgrade. You’ll see what I mean a bit more within the next several weeks. Updating the site is a priority, but then again, so are all the clients!
Stay “tuned”!
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October 5th, 2006
The last several days have been very exciting! Here are a few quick pictures of various parts of the convention. Here’s two of Angie with our Cintique tablet (a monitor you can draw on with a special digital pen):
The last photo above is Angie being drawn by Jan Op De Beeck (Jan’s a really nice artist from Belgium and wanted to try using Angie’s tablet). He’s also one of the ‘Masters’ at the convention, one of the best, and he just published a new book.
The Cintique has been a great asset to the character design portion of our work. She goes in and designs the characters before they are modeled and then animated. By the way, flying from Philly to Orlando with a 21 inch touch screen, flat panel display is not too bad, but wouldn’t want to do it too often!
There were close to 200 artists at the convention and so I thought it appropriate to show off some of the amazing work they did over the last several days! Enjoy!
(Yes, the top profile with the nose is me!)
(And yes, the top one on the left is me, again!)
This one is me drawing in the speed competition at the convention. I didn’t win, there were some very fast artists at the convention!
And finally, when not working on the Cintique or attending the lectures, or talking with other artists, we spent quite a bit of time running across the street from the hotel to our favorite place!
I’ll post more about the content when I have more time. Just wanted to get some photos up for you! Gotta run, big dinner going on next.
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