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.
Let The Games Begin first act read today, in Toronto
The first act of my script Let The Games Begin will be dramatically read tonight in Toronto, at WildSound. If you’re in Toronto, try to go check it out (and vote for me): “The WILDsound 1st ACT to ACT to ACT Screenplay Festival’s March 2010 Reading will be held on Friday, March 26th at the National Film Board Cinema, 150 John Street, in the Entertainment District in downtown Toronto.”
Wildsound 2010 Winner (Top 3)
I am an official winner of the 2010 Wildsound Feature Screenplay Contest (the Top 3 are official Winners of the contest, and then it goes to an audience vote). I’m excited and pleased that my script was enjoyable to enough readers that it managed to win.
The way it works is this: the first act of my script will now be read at a WildSound event in Canada in March. If it is selected as the audience pick, then the entire script will be read in May. Fingers crossed for coming out ahead in the audience voting, as I’d love to hear the script read in its entirety in May.
Finalist: Spring 2010 Wildsound Feature Screenplay Contest
I’ve been very busy writing on three different projects (though one has pushed the other two aside recently as it has deadlines), and working like crazy on a big project at work, so I haven’t been blogging much, but I have some news:
My screenplay “Let The Games Begin” is a finalist in the 2010 Wildsound Feature Screenplay Contest, a contest which includes feedback on all submissions and gives the winner an opportunity to hear their script performed by professional actors in Canada. I think that’s a pretty cool prize for a contest, and would really love the chance to hear the script read by professionals and make edits and adjustments to it based on that experience.
The same script was also a Finalist in the 2009 Austin Film Festival Drama Screenplay Competition. I am a big fan of Austin as an experience — I’ve met several folks through Austin who I now consider friends — and I’m proud to have placed two years in a row (in 2008 my script “Welcome To Akron” was a Quarterfinalist).
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