I'll Be Back!

It's finished!  A big thanks to James and Chris for their acting, I think these are their finest performances to date.  Hopefully the video will be well received when it goes out in to the wild.

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Hasta La Vista Baby!

Here's a quick still with the Blender compositor node set-up for my next sketch, which is due out Monday.  This shot still isn't finished, I have to add some blood around the Terminator's face and generally merge the CG effects in better.

I've been using Blender for pretty much everything in this project and I've been very impressed by it's Chroma keying tools.  I normally do all my green screening in FXHome so it's nice to be able to remove another import\export step from my production pipeline.

Syntheyes has been a dream to work with, in fact I'm starting to wish I had been a bit more adventurous and tried to do both camera and object tracking in the same shot.  Oh well, the idea for my next video will definitely need to do both.

It's just the little details and final renders to go now.  I'm very happy with how the sketch is looking so far though.  The acting is a noticeable improvement from previous videos, there were a couple of fortunate accidents which helped us out and lots of little things just clicked.  So I'm pleased with it no matter how many views it gets or what the haters think.

Filming Complete

The filming for the Terminator sketch is now finished, and a big thanks to James and Chris.  This time was a bit different to previous filming sessions as I wanted a naturalistic style, so we had to film entire scenes in one take rather than relying on lots of back and forth cuts.  Hopefully it's all going to come out OK.

And here's a random unexplained screen capture from the day.

C3-PO

I modelled this C3-PO head for the sketch we're filming next weekend.  It's not 100% accurate but it should be good enough for what I need.  Made with Blender.

I'll Be Back!

After a long time off from making videos we're planning on filming something new very soon. It's a sketch set in the Terminator universe and it's going to have loads of live-action, green screen and CGI shots. All made with Blender of course!

I'm working with Syntheyes for the first time to do the face-tracking so that I can CG my actors up like Arnie here.

Technically it's the most complicated project I've ever worked on, but it should be a lot of fun.






While I'm waiting for the shoot date I decided to work on the intro. So here's a quick peek at the start of the next sketch.

Short Film: Emily

I've just finished writing a script for the Collabor8te short film competition. It's a kind of supernatural thriller called 'Emily' and it's completely different from anything I've ever written before... although obviously I still managed to sneak in a few jokes about Boobs.

The Judges decision will be announced in late November so until then I just have to forget about it and move on to the next project.