Posts tagged filmmaking

Spy Vs Guy - Short Film

A short film I directed and co-wrote for Red Giant, created to showcase Bulletproof.

Click here to watch the film!

Click here for the Behind the Scenes!

Tempo - The Official Soundtrack
Download my brother Ben’s astounding score that he composed for my short film Tempo.
Click here to get it!

Tempo - The Official Soundtrack

Download my brother Ben’s astounding score that he composed for my short film Tempo.

Click here to get it!

Tempo - Short Film

A short film I directed and co-wrote to showcase Trapcode and other Red Giant products.

Click here to watch it!

Tempo - Trailer

The teaser trailer for my new Red Giant short film.

*UPDATE: The film is now online! Watch it here.

Form 17 - Short Film

A bomb technician faces his most hazardous situation yet: Take Your Daughter To Work Day. Created to showcase PluralEyes 3. Click here to watch it.

Check out The Making of Form 17 here.

Order Up - Short Film

A pizza is delivered to a creepy, abandoned location. Then it gets weird.

Made to showcase Knoll Light Factory 3.

Tutorial - School Of Rock

Throw rocks at people with After Effects!

Man, do I want this.

To think that one could create a Team Fortress Mod, and subsequently have a backlot of their own characters and props with which to create short films (or, obviously, PreVis), it just makes my mind explode.

I signed up for the beta, but it looks like it’s only on PC at the moment, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they only give the beta out to folks who are already creating TF2 assets (I’m not, unfortunately) and who are heavily active in the Steam community (I’m not, I play Portal 2 and Half Life campaign modes by myself, away from anyone who could possibly make fun of me for having the skills of a 4 year-old).

But man, do I want this, along with an entire month dedicated to only it.

It’s been a fun day. Congratulations to Red Giant and the entire Plot Device team on our Webby Award! What I said in my email to the crew today:

“This project was fortunate to have some of the most talented, hard working, and gracious people I know working on it. Those kinds of projects are special, and don’t come along every time. Thank you for your work.  know you’re going to roll your eyes at this, but I don’t care: congratulations on this cool award. We made a really cool thing together and we’re blessed to get to see the outside world appreciate it and derive joy from it.”

Aharon wrote a nice post here.

It’s been a fun day. Congratulations to Red Giant and the entire Plot Device team on our Webby Award! What I said in my email to the crew today:

“This project was fortunate to have some of the most talented, hard working, and gracious people I know working on it. Those kinds of projects are special, and don’t come along every time. Thank you for your work.  know you’re going to roll your eyes at this, but I don’t care: congratulations on this cool award. We made a really cool thing together and we’re blessed to get to see the outside world appreciate it and derive joy from it.”

Aharon wrote a nice post here.

I remember a story Clint Eastwood told me years ago, after he made “The Eiger Sanction” (1975). There’s a scene in the movie where Clint’s character dangles in mid-air at the end of a cable hanging from a mountain. He’s thousands of feet up. Clint, who also directed, did the scene himself.

“I didn’t want to use a stunt man,” he said, “because I wanted to use a telephoto lens and zoom in slowly all the way to my face — so you could see it was really me. I put on a little disguise and slipped into a sneak preview of the film to see how people liked it. When I was hanging up there in the air, the woman in front of me said to her friend, ‘Gee, I wonder how they did that?’ and her friend said, ‘Special effects.’”

From Roger Ebert’s review of Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol