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You really have to love how far computers have come. It's currently 12:45pm here in Montana, and I've rendered a shot from Nuke, added a quick film grain to the entire movie, exported the whole film and am currently burning it to blu ray to watch with my actor this weekend. All of that in just...

Thank you, Mara! That will work :) Yeah, I'm really not too sure how this will go, which is why I want to try it. In the past I would do an outline too that follows three act structure, but I've also been getting into virtual index cards for that now too and like how it makes my brain think...

Had a chance to start working on this again yesterday while my computer was rendering some heavy VFX for "Leap". My wife and I talked a lot about this movie the night before and what my goals with it would be. I told her my goal would be to make something more mainstream, that while still...

Watched the movie today on my new 65" TV! The primary purpose was to decide what scenes need ADR, but I also wanted to just watch the film on a big screen since I haven't really done that in six months. Overall, I came up with around 15 scenes that need ADR due to where we were filming (a...

Went huckleberry picking today up Nunya Creek on the backside of Notellem Mountain (yes, the names are a joke). We came home with 96oz which is double our previous record :) Karissa made jam. Once we got home, I spent the afternoon working on some more shots. I have a particularly challenging...

Very nice! I've done a film like this before too and yours complete obliterates mine :D I really only had two critiques. The first was there was a shot or two in the first third of the film where the white balance felt off. The second was during the first shot we see the apartment on fire-...

Karissa and I went and saw "A Quiet Place: Day One" yesterday and really enjoyed it. Very much a character piece with a strong heart. Afterwards, we went to Walmart to get supplies for our upcoming backpacking trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. As we were rounding the back of the store, I...

Hello! Tomorrow starts the first of two, week-long camps where I get to teach kids about making brickfilms! I'm pretty excited, and I think they are too since all my classes are full and have a waiting list. I'm starting this thread because I'll be sharing their films here when they're done at...

Movie is SO close to have the VFX done! I'm looking forward to starting on the other aspects of post to get this thing finished. Also had another bear drop by this morning. Pretty sure it's the same one that knocked over my BBQ a few weeks back. He came in today and tried to get the...

Spent yesterday and this morning compositing the shots where a raven brings the main characters bread (a callback to the Old Testament where ravens provided for Elijah). I had done a similar shot once before for “The Days of Noah”, so I already had a good idea as to how to accomplish this...

It was pretty cute to watch! He destroyed the tree, but totally worth it. I think I'm going to print and frame that shot since it's not something you see everyday.

Finally getting into the really fun VFX! Right now I'm turning rivers to blood. To pull this off, I'm just creating a black and white map of where I want the change to occur, and using that as a mask on a color correct node in Nuke. It's really pretty simple. The difficult part is keeping...

Probably sooner than later too :D

Had a lovely little experience today where Nuke decided that it didn't want to open. I went to my office and sat down at the desk at about 9am this morning to get started on work for the day. I went to launch Nuke and it froze up on the Command Prompt that opens whenever I launch the program...

Decided to take a break from the difficult stuff and move on to actually comping the test shoot I did two weeks ago. It was just myself on my green screen, playing two parts, but it allowed me to see technically if this crazy idea that I have will work. I'm not posting any pics right now...

You're telling me! lol I first heard of that tech when researching "The Birds" years ago and wondered why it wasn't around anymore. I saw Corridor's vid when it came out and didn't realize how rare that prism was. Crazy!

It's funny how sometimes the biggest VFX are actually the easiest to do, while the small, invisible stuff can be infinitely more difficult. Referring back to the previous entry, I was able to accomplish the bloody sprinklers with a simple particle system in Blender. I actually found a...

If you love it, that's the most important part. Good luck and have fun! Be sure to share the film here when it's done and share some behind the scenes :)

Thanks! I'm sure it could look better, but I think what I have is usable. My next big effect is an aerial shot of a house in the morning. I need sprinklers to start spraying, but instead of water it's blood. Trying to figure out the best approach for this. Maybe a particle sim with weight...