Disconnected Preview and More

So here's what I've been doing for the past 2 months since shooting on Disconnected ended....

Well, this isn't all that I've been doing, but it's part of it. This is my demo reel for my portfolio class, which is mostly irrelevant to all of you that have been watching the things on this site already as about 70% of the material you've already seen--though some of it has been color-corrected a little bit better and whatnot, but somehow I get the feeling that sort of only interesting to me :)

However, the first 40 seconds is new--it's an excerpt from the intro sequence of Disconnected, complete with score (thanks Kyle!). So please, watch and enjoy. And if you want to stick around for the rest...yay!

Updates from Beyond...Production

Welcome, friends, to the first in the hopefully multi-part series of "Hey! That Wasn't There When We Were Filming."

This week's episode: Debi's face. The twist is that Debi's face was actually there when we were filming (weird) but it's not there now. Check it out--it is very subtle. Hint: Look at the bottom of the screen, under Tim's arm.

And now...Debi's face!

 

And....NOT Debi's face!

 

Skillz (with a Z) used: After Effects Rotoscoping layered over a Color Burn Matte layered over original image distorted with Liquefy tool.

It's movie magic, folks. And it is a beautiful thing.

How About a Magic Trick?

Kinetic typography—the technical name for "moving text"—is an animation technique mixing motion and text. This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion.

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Heath Ledger's Joker

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Busy (and Lazy) Little Bee: Have Some Randomness

I know, I have not posted in a while. Whilst I am still in the midst of processing the footage from my PAX excursion (read: I have not started it because I am trying to get the rough cut done for the only officially-sanctioned Spinning Gyre production for you fine folks), I figured should probably post something again. It has been over a month after all...jesus nearly a month and half. Terrible.

Anyway, while I am finishing up more exciting projects, enjoy this work produced for school. It is a demonstration of belly-dancing with a song that WILL be stuck in your head for at least three hours, guarenteed. So...bonus?

Dolphin Season Opens: Review of The Cove

So I just watched The Cove, the Best Documentary for 2009 exposing the dolphin trafficking and slaughter that occurs in Taiji (sp?) Japan. And I had been planning on doing a post about it to let everyone know how good of a film it was and how everyone should rent it or look for it on Animal Planet (where I managed to catch it).

Then I realized "Shit I'm leaving for PAX (that's Penny Arcade Expo folks) in like a day. I don't have time to sit behind a computer and WRITE something. It's madness!" So I wasn't going to post anything.

And then I got to class tonight and as I was sitting down--at a computer, what are the odds!?--one of my classmates reminded me that today is September 1st. If you've seen The Cove, you know that today is the first day of the dolphin "season", as it were. So I re-though my rethink and decided to post anyway.

Pointless exposition notwithstanding, The Cove is an absolutely phenomenal and hearbreaking film with such good flow and character development it is kind of hard to believe it is non-fiction. Basic plot is a camera crew from the Oceanic Preservation Society (or something similar that creates the initials OPS) goes to Taiji to capture on film the rumored dolphin slaughters that occur in the cove of title near the city. And...they do it. The film goes into how this kind of practice can be allowed and why it hasn't been shut down yet--I mean, the world has come along way since Star Trek 4, and yet here we are, am I right? It's quite fascinating and very shocking. They don't pull punches either. They film keeps alluding to these horrible things that are happening just out of sight and then...you see it. And immediately you wish you didn't. And boy, it is effective. When the film ended after the last gruesome scene, my boyfriend turns to me and says, "Ok, I'm going to cry about the dolphins now."

And cry he did. And then he e-mailed opsociety.org and told them he wanted to help. Mission Accomplished, people. If you want to help, you can e-mail them too.

Damn the man--save the baby dolphins! And watch this film!