Well, the 23rd is here, and Tintin has definitely been released (we just got back from the movie theater), and… Dead Men Hiking is not finished. Sorry folks, but there are still several things that need finishing. Who would have thought that a 7-10 minute film begun back in July/August would take …
This is a 3d model I made about a year ago. The hardest part was modeling the plates on the robot’s legs. This is a firefighting mech, complete with an axe for opening buildings, water tanks on his back, a searchlight on his front, and an enclosed cockpit to protect …
Back when I was first learning about 3d modeling, my brother and I planned on making a short 3d movie called High Moon that was supposed to take place around a castle in Japan. We never finished the project, but we did produce some good still renders.
In the center of this photo you can see the small whiteboard we used as an audio slate for several shots. In order to make it easier to synchronize audio afterwards, we wrote the audio file name on the board (here the file name is “002.wav” or “002” for short) …
….or at least the stand-in for the monster. The actual monster in Dead Men Hiking will be 100% computer generated. For shots requiring the “monster” to interact with the actors, we used this cumbersome foam block to represent the monster’s head.
Here is our cheapo solution for the only graphically violent scene in Dead Men Hiking: a simple concotion of red paint and a torn white shirt.
This is day 1 of filming. As I got the camera set up, the characters “Scott” and “Gordon” went over their lines in the script, and we “blocked” out the scene.
In order to generate more posts, we’re going to be putting up a new picture every day for the next few weeks related to Dead Men Hiking. This is Phineas, Agent Jenkins’ evil government boss:
When I was younger, I always assumed that good movies were easy to make. All one needed was a good script and lots of money. I also assumed that good scripts were easy to write. After all, the plot of a good story looks effortless on the silver screen. But …