Since Hovering Lights is kind of an episodic story, with scenes taking place across several different dates and times, I wanted to make them clear to the audience while avoiding "one week later" letterings. Each clip's length is limited to 15 seconds, so cards between them aren't that bad. For these …
Starting off easy to see if this is gonna work or if it's too confusing. This was a very simple shot, designed simply to introduce May's character and the whole instagram-point-of-view thing. Since there's a crazy TV in the room, I thought I could enhance that feeling by adding some flickering to …
Well, it's my last break, between Terms 5 and 6, so it's better to get things moving around here. I thought I would have plenty of time to keep posting useful information around here during the development of the reel and it turned out that I was... immeasurably wrong. During Term 4 I kind of got …
During last week, I spent most of my days working in one assignment instead of making real progress with my reel. Why the heck did I do that? Well, I have to go back to last Sunday, while I did the rigid bodies assignment, linked on the previous post. During render time, while Maya wrote out all my …
This post has been sitting in the drafts folder for long before I shot, but since it was just recently that I was able to go through the workflow that I can really explain how things work. For my previous project (Zona SSP), we shot RAW, thanks to MagicLantern, using Canon's 50D and 5D3. The results …
The second part of the previous post, and this is where things should start to get at least a little more interesting. Working on my demo reel for Vancouver Film School, I decided to, besides all the VFX stuff and technical aspects of it, try some new stuff with cinematography, experimenting with a …
When I decided to go Instagram all the way I haven't thought about technical specs for even a second. I created my account and started to upload random things in there - at least one picture a day - and for today I thought of trying to upload a short video, stop motion style. Edited the thing …