VES Handbook of Visual Effects released
The VES Handbook that I contributed to is now available for purchase. Hopefully, you will find it both interesting and useful.
Contest Season
Blogging has taken a serious third seat to both ongoing major production projects at my day job, and the travails of prepping rewrites and new scripts for Contest Season. But now the season is winding down (by the end of August). I will follow-up soon with one or more post-contest-season articles with my opinion about contests in general, and also my thoughts about a number of contests in particular.
Friends’ Films: Bartek Rainski’s The Thief
Check out Bartek Rainski’s Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (aka The Thief), starring Zbigniew Zamachowski. This short is a prototype for a feature film that Bartek is working on.
Shooting a short that focuses on the main character of a proposed feature, and sets-up some key element of the story, is a common fund-raising tool for independent productions. Productions as varying in tone from The Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple to Napoleon Dynamite have all started off as prototype shorts that were used to generate interest in the intended feature.
The VES Handbook of Visual Effects
I just turned in my second draft edits for the approximately 40 pages I’m contributing to The VES Handbook of Visual Effects. This handbook covers a wide range of visual effects topics (my sections are about animation and general pipeline issues), broken down into sections on Preproduction, Shooting, Postproduction and Digital Element Creation.
More than 85 members of the Visual Effects Society, all visual effects practitioners in areas ranging from vfx supervisors to technical artists to animators to vfx producers, contributed subsections about their areas of expertise. If you are interested in Visual Effects, whether as a hand-on practitioner, or as a Director, Producer or Production Designer, this book will give you a comprehensive overview of the field.
It is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com (it is slated to come out in August 2010). Click the cover image below to buy your copy today:
Please vote for “Let The Games Begin” for Audience Favorite
Please take a moment to help me out and vote for my screenplay “Let The Games Begin” in the WildSound feature screenplay contest audience favorite phase at this link:
http://www.wildsound-filmmaking-feedback-events.com/film_scripts.html
It was one of 3 juried winners of the contest, and now there is an audience choice award.
The way this particular contest works is that the first acts of each of the 3 winning scripts is read aloud in front of an audience, and the videos are then posted and the Internet audience at large can vote for an audience favorite winner.
That Internet audience favorite winner then gets the full script read in May, in front of an audience in Toronto, which would be a useful tool for me for refining the script further.
You can view a video of a reading of the first act by clicking on the thumbnail at the left of that page. A few minutes of your time to view and vote would be much appreciated.
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