February 7, 2012#
January 31, 2012#
“Cadaver” in the Media
The short animated film I worked on in 2011 is picking up steam after its festival debut at the Santa Barbar International Film Festival this past weekend. I’m told it was well received and reaction posts on a few websites seem to agree. Take a look at the following posts about “Cadaver!”
MTV and Deadline posted about the film and its unique use of the Neil Young song “Heart of Gold,” one of my favorite elements in the film.
Deadline / Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” Gets New Treatment in Film
Tavi Gevinson Sings Neil Young In ‘Cadaver’ Animation
Additionally, Santa Barbara Seasons and the Metacafe Entertainment Network (MEN) both saw the film and have very positive little writeups.
Santa Barbara Seasons / Monday’s Film Fest Report
Next up the film will screen at the Cinequest festival in San Jose. I’ll be there this time, if you live in the area you should think about checking it out during one of the short film lineups: WED 2/29; 3:45PM (C12) FRI 3/2; 9:15PM (C12) SUN 3/4; 1:15PM (C12)
January 18, 2012#
May 13, 2011#
Woolf
Some friends and I participated in this years 24 Hour Film Race in San Francisco. The conditions were to make a short film entirely in 24 hours (7pm April 29th through 7pm APril 30th), using the following elements:
Theme: “Identity Theft”
Item: A flower
Action: Answering a phone
Other than that we were free to be as creative as necessary. The result is “Woolf,” a quick but hopefully entertaining animation piece. Very little sleep was had. Let us know what you think.
March 2, 2011#
Wallpaper Music Video
I recently finished the VFX work on a new music video for the Bay Area MC “Wallpaper,” called “#STUPiDFACEDD.” It premiered yesterday on MTV and on the MTV Buzzworthy Blog, and is now available to view in HD on Youtube, or in the embed below. A quick disclaimer: this video is a bit raunchy and might not be safe to watch in certain situations.
I touched up about 99% of the shots in this piece, with the aim to make them crazier and more atmospheric. Some shots involved adding smoke, haze and sparks to the scene, while in other shots I went as far as to manipulate faces, add wings, bring life to animal masks, and so on. It was an interesting job that spanned a wide range of necessary techniques and pushed me to try unusual approaches to old tricks. If I have any regret its that some of the tweaks were so small you’d have to go in frame-by-frame to really see whats changed, but often times the most invisible work is the most affective for the overall feel of a piece.
November 8, 2010#
Pickups in the Tall Grass
This past Saturday, Director of Photography Jessica Fisher and I spent about half an hour shooting a few missing shots for the final act of my film, Trash and Progress. To avoid having to take the usual actress away from her busy schedule for such a tiny shoot, I somehow managed to convince Producer Susan Ali (pictured above) to act as a stand in. It was worth it just to see her in a wig.
Though the edit is 95% locked, on a project of this size one finds that significant portions of the story simply don’t come together without the addition of tiny, seemingly minute details. For Trash, this has typically required going down to the basement (or “studio”) and setting up a quick closeup of someone’s hand grabbing a clock, pages in a book turning, or something equally rudimentary.
In this case, however, the character Darla Dixie needed a little bit more closure in the film, and this necessitated heading out on location to Point Isabella in Richmond, California, where the tall grass is still dry and there are long paths leading out toward the horizon.