IT'S HERE!!

Finally, after many months of secrecy, what you've all been waiting for...(hopefully, I haven't over sold it) Watch it in HD!

AND NOW, SOME SCREENSHOTS.

 Note the real mud

 The weathervane detail

 THE (honorable) Mr. Shtubby in his film debut!

 And he multiplies well

KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE "MAKING OF" VIDEO COMING REAL SOON.

It's Close.... I can feel it

In the past moth, things have really started to pick up speed. I just got a new summer job and am working on the final tweaks of something. This something is so mysterious, so shrouded in secrecy................... that you're all probably losing interest by now, since I continually talk of something new, but you never see proof.
Well... I am aware of that, which is why, today, right now, I'm going to post my last little tidbit.

Now, if this isn't just burning a hole in you with suspense, then I don't know what will. 

See, it'll be a little while till I can get this thing onto the web. Mostly due to technical problems and other junk. Also, I had hoped to get things done for IlluXCon! but sadly, that won't be happening. Instead, the best I can hope for is to have this up by sometime next month. 

So, long story short, let's just hope this will all be worth it in the end.

See you in September.

Something Stupid This Way Comes

What could it be?

This is a quick little example of some upcoming effects. 

I made a skull out of red wax (crayons to be exact) and painted it bronze. Then I took a flame to it between frames. 

More stuff hopefully coming soon.

Motion Blur

I've been working on some new stuff.



I shot the whole thing on ones, at 24fps. Then I took it into After Effects and used the "Timewarp" function. I set the Speed to: 100 and clicked "enable motion blur." Made it "Manual" and set the shutter angle to: 275.04 and changed the shutter samples to 11.

This method (which I believe is called "Megamotion") was first brought to my attention by Peter Montgomery from a post he did in the StopmotionAnimation.com Handbook. 

Of course the technique I previously described is slightly different from the one in the handbook. I can't find where I originally got that info, but I know it's based on it... Anyway, thank's to Peter Montgomery for figuring this all out!

More stuff on the way.

Look Again

Not cake this time.

Look....

Cake anyone...?

Long Time No Blog

Yeah, I know I've often said I was going to "post more" but.... LIFE, you know? Anyway, things are really starting to pick up around here. I've been busy working full time and juggling said work with other side projects.
Project 1:
I just finished a short story that I've been working on since November. It's titled "Flea Dip." It's kind of a Horror/Neo-Noir/Comedy type thing. I wrote about 90% of it at night (when I'm tired and crazy) so, I think it turned out ok. The next challenge would be getting it published...
What's funny is, as soon as I finished it, I found this.

Now I realize, I need to rewrite the WHOLE STORY as a SCRIPT! 

Yeah, I'm not all that familiar with the screenplay format and it's proving to be quite irritating. But I have 15 pages already, so I think I'll be able to make the deadline.

And by the way, that was actually Project 2.

So, Project 3:

I'm currently trying to get certain stop - motion things done in time for a certain event. But, that may or may not happen, depending on how fast I get my script done. Really, it's crazy how many things I want and need to do that ALL have approximately the same deadline: JULY! 

So, until I can finish something, I probably won't post anything new for a little while (ha, you all know what that means....). 

Anyway, till next time.