Here’s the commercial…
NEOsitrin 20″ from 23lunes on Vimeo.
Here’s the Making of…
NEOsitrin Making-Of from 23lunes on Vimeo.
I really like the making of piece. It is especially nice to see the breakdown of the production and how nicely the layout matches the CG. Notice that the level of quality in the drawings is top notch – even in the boards and the layout – so much so that they were able to use some of the painting to make their jobs easier by mapping them on planes.
Nice work.
This is a real solid piece of work by filmmaker and artist Gabe Askew. This is a really good reason to use CG. Check it…
Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew on Vimeo.
Check this out peeps… this has some serious possibilities for timelapse and animation…
I saw this posted on Drawn.ca and thought I would share it with everyone as well. I particularly like the use of the camera in this piece. It really uses camera movement and framing to create an nice sense of mood and depth. The use of the “final gather” lighting style is strong here as well. The whole piece is all about color so using this style forces us to look at the colors and not get too lost in an overly textured or modeled background while still maintaining our attention on the performance of the characters driving the story.
Its got a lot of potential. Way to got Sean and Ben, great work. Hope we get to see more from you guys at the Irish School of Animation.
Here’s Blip -
Blip from Sean Mullen on Vimeo.
Here is a really brilliant lecture by Randy Nelson on collaboration and what it means to them at Pixar. This kind of philosophy is an absolute must if you want to make it in new media.
Haven’t really posted in a bit. Mainly because I’ve been super slammed with my newest short film – The Ripening, which involves 3D, 2D, and stop motion. I hoping to have it wrapped up before summer hits so I can pursue some more experimental ideas.
Along that vien I have also been doing a good bit of research into the art of pixilation, time-lapse photography, light graffiti and something else called pixel-lapse for use in developing my next film.
pixel-lapse is a technique I discovered through Steven Silberg’s site http://www.pixel-lapse.com/ that as he describes it – “”Pixel-lapse” combines the temporal nature of long exposure photography and the precise organization of the digital matrix. By creating an image one pixel at a time, each part of the image shows different captured moments. In the end, each image not only has dimension but also gains duration and velocity. He has a free ware app on his site for playing with the idea that uses my laptop’s imbedded camera here’s an image of me at my desk taken over 45 minutes of time.
I’ve been meaning to write Steven and see about attaining a way to attach this to an external camera for use in time-lapse work I think it could provide some interesting artistic avenues for exploration in time based work.
Along those lines I’ve discovered a time-lapse app for my iPhone and did a test the other day while enjoying my coffee. Check it…
While these are but early discoveries, I’m extremely excited about their potential and plan on further developments using my DSLR in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for some light graffiti and long exposure work.
J
Well folks here is the first composite image for my next short – it is rough, but the look is there. The white figures are there simply for scale purposes – eventually they will be removed and the characterized figure of myself will be walking into this shot.
I’m pretty pleased with the overall look and welcome your thoughts and suggestions.
J
Well so the daily drawings have come to a slow miserable end. After much hard work, and thought I have moved past them onto a new short film, which I must say was inspired by them. I’m keeping it pretty quiet for now still in the boarding and design stages-but I do have some cool test imagery to show…
Check out this apple texture – 100% procedural nodes in Maya, rendered in Mental ray.
the apple
You see inside the apple because we are gonna do a pull back from the core and as we pull back the layers fill in – like we are really moving through it. I’m still wrestling with the edge where the cut happens, attempting to give it thickness, without displacement. Also not happy with the core shader just yet -needs a bit more wetness to it, but the spec is tricky since it is a dead flat plane.
More to come… stay tuned!!
J
Well Delgo fans – there is a new trailer online at…
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/delgo/
It is really well put together, makes me want to see the film all over again. : ) There is one major typo on the page that we are aware of and hoping that Apple fixes immediately - my name is not listed along side Marcs as Director.
It is not a conspiracy. No-one deliberately dropped off my name – we are having constant problems with companies dropping off the second name as director. Marc gets lucky because we did the credits alphabetically – Adler comes before Maurer…
So the world is clear Delgo was Co-Directed by Marc Adler and Jason Maurer and Animation Direction was done by Warren Grubb. Also we are all listed with proper credits on www.imdb.com.
If anyone out there whom reads this has a direct contact or knows someone who has a direct contact at Apple for the individual who makes the changes to the trailers sites -please shoot me their contact info. I’ve emailed trailers@mac.com and I know that Marc has contacted whom he knows there – but we want this changed immediately.
Thanks again for all your support and help! Take a look and shoot me your thoughts!
J
*!!!! UPDATED!!!! Thank you Apple for your amazingly quick response to our inquiry!! I emailed them and less than 2 hours later, the site is changed! Way to go customer service! Love me some Apple!
So here are some quick black and white lighting tests I’ve been playing with for a class I’m taking. Was going for the Lincoln Memorial. Using like 4 spots and Maya software rendering (which were limitations of the assignment). I’m happy with the moodiness and the contrast of them. I think that I could use some more bounce here and there – but overall I’m happy with the output especially considering each one took probably 1/2 hour to an hour to light. : )
My friend and mentor Edward Kinney said these two things yesterday and I found them to be very true and inspiring…
“You have to stop seeing just the object; that’s how the food gathers see – NOT how artists see”
and
“Artists function at their highest when they are in touch with their impulses.”
Ok sports fans… Warren shot me this link
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html
What is truly wack about this is that almost ALL of these plants, landscapes, etc are literally in Delgo. Now I know what you are thinking… we ripped them off … but I swear to you all that I’ve never seen them before – and I’m pretty sure our Art Directors hadn’t either – although we’d have to ask them to be sure.
For a second lets say that they didn’t know – how is it that we created these things and that they now exist? Did they tap into some greater sub conscious thing, was it genetic memory coming through – maybe they vulcan mind melded with the Earth… either way I’m totally freaked out!
All I’m gonna say is Amen brother!!! Ira really tells it well, it applies to what he does and to what we do in animation as well – storytelling. I think it works especially well for the short form.
Well it is official Delgo has gotten distribution!!! We will be releasing with Freestyle releasing the current date is December 12 this year. Any more details are few at this point – Our producer and Co-director Marc Adler signed the deal last week. Once the official press release is out and any more info I get that is public I will put it up here.
Thanks to everyone out there who has held out hope and worked tirelessly to make this happen. We couldn’t be more excited about this opportunity. So mark your calendars…
J
