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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 I finished all my VFX for "Fins" and really enjoyed the ACES workflow for that aspect. From a color grading standpoint though, ACES makes the controls a lot more sensitive. I need to research some Blackmagic control panels and see what people are saying about them and...

Sunday, June 26, 2022 Cool update- I'm learning ACES! Over a year ago, a buddy and I challenged each other to make a short film. His challenge to me was, “Jaws, but in a Montana lake”. I wrote a script called “Fins", my wife built a creature tail, and we shot it in April of 2021. It turned...

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Finally got the opening prologue finished! Had some last minute issues with z-fighting on the render, but it's finally done! In the film, we'll replace my voice with whoever I cast in that part, but this will help keep me excited as I finish the script.

Cool concept!

I was surprised to see it was Hulu only too! It looks like it could be theatrical. But this also explains why Hulu suddenly had all the Predator films and recommended them to me lol

That has nothing to do with my flick

Mocked up a new poster this morning. The parkour figure is me from 2008 and the background is two images I shot with my iPhone last year. This won't be the final design by any means, but it's something to keep me excited for the time being. One of the core concepts that's survived since the...

Thanks for the responses, guys. This client did put me in touch with another that was a decent sized gig and had my flying to Chicago, so that is something to consider. I think for now I will try to ride this out until the one year mark. While never explicitly stated or agreed to, I do want...

I should add, we've never signed a contract or agreement. I do the work, then send him an invoice. He's a financial advisor and well aware of inflation and such, so it should be easy, but right now, he's the one paycheck I can count on week after week.

I started my business 6 months ago. Like many video guys new to working for themselves, I struggled with pricing. I've been doing weekly videos for this client since the end of December, shooting his Vlog, editing and uploading. Afraid of not landing the client, I slightly lowballed him. As...

I like to go someplace like a park or lake. That way my laptop has no internet.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Music. I am not a musician, but I can hear an eight count. I know a few guitar chords and I can pluck out a tune or two on the piano, but that's it. I can't sing. I can't read sheet music. Yet somehow I take an active role in the music for my films. It started in my...

Sorry to hear the show never went anywhere. I had a similar experience where I worked on a science show for kids that was Christian based. We completed a 9 episode first season and then the project got canned and never saw distribution.

Thursday, May 26, 2022 Things are still moving forward. The script is progressing and I might have my first cast member. I reconnected with an actor from that last Leap movie recently on Instagram. His name is Walt and he played one of the bad guys back then. I only worked with him for two...

I see you have the ability to do some VFX. I'd suggest treating the blue pistols as VFX shots. There's a great book called "The DV Rebel's Guide". There's a chapter where the author filmed his buddy running around San Francisco with a green plastic pistol. He brought the shots into After...

Giving this a watch now

53 pages. It's been emotionally draining as I wrote a huge argument, death scene, and a funeral. Crazy how it affects you in real life.

Small update for today. There's a massive earthquake scene at the end of the first act and I've been thinking a lot about how I want to pull this off. Just for fun this morning, I put my cinema camera on a tripod and locked down all the axis to the point where they just barely moved. I set...