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return from London
I just moved back from London where I was working at Double Negative. Most people out of the FX industry probably haven’t heard of it but you’ve definitely seen the movies they’ve worked on… Dark Night Hellboy 2 Harry Potter Quantum of Solace …all the way back to Pitch Black in 1998 During my time … Continue reading
Flight of the Red Balloon
Hey, balloon! Come here. Are you coming? Come on. Are you listening? If you come… I’ll give you something. Something bigger than you can imagine. I’ll give you a hundred candies. Two million caramel bars. Anything you want if you come. It’s not listening. Balloon, are you coming or not? You heard me. So you’re … Continue reading
Stabbity, stab, stab.
Last week I was working on the first of the wallpaper series from Team Fortress 2. I did manage to finish the Spy this time out. I really liked the way the character himself turned out. I’m not so entirely thrilled with the background, and found myself not settling on any one background. I’m only posting … Continue reading
Freeze Frame
Sunday
Writing with a Camera: A Take on Long Take Tracking Shots
Next week, Doc Salvatron and I will be collaborating on back-to-back posts about The Red Balloon, the classic short film by Albert Lamorisse, and the feature film it inspired, Flight of the Red Balloon, by Hsiao-hsien Hou. This week, inspired by the style of Hsiao-hsien Hou and by a film I watched called Nine Lives, … Continue reading
“Promise not to bleed on my suit and I’ll kill you quickly.”
Greetings boys and girls, the Console General here: I’ve been blessed with a new PC via my employers “PC Fair.” It’s a beast and has been a blast to build; the specs are as follows: Intel Core i7 920 (2.66 ghz quad-core) 12 gigs of PC12800 OCZ ram ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 2 (Yes, two) … Continue reading
Smile
George Eastman House Nikolas Murray These photographs, along with every other photograph in The Commons (Flickr’s collaboration with libraries in museums to showcase public photo collection) has no known copyright restriction. I altered Nikolas Murray’s work using Corel Painter 11.
Rian Johnson’s Festival of Fakery: The Man Who Would Be King
The final selection from Rian Johnson’s Festival of Fakery is an old-fashioned, epic tale of high adventure: The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston. (Full list here.) Over a few decades, the movie was previously launched and re-launched with a host of onscreen duos — Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster … Continue reading
Megatonnage and itchy-trigger fingers.
Sometime last year, I was writing a short story titled Megaton Trigger. The name probably smacks of some sort of anime series title to some, but that was the image I was goin’ for. I never actually got around to finishing the short story, but then I was slammed with the hip idea of making it … Continue reading