A Trio of Goodies

The start of another week! The weekend passed by uneventfully, albeit with a copious amount of relaxing! I'm one of seven artists left in what's called Bay 4 Lower. Four of us are doing some R&D and spec work for a feature that we're bidding on. Lots of cool environmental development. The other three are on Charlotte's Web.

I'm also continuing to work on this little Sundance project that is due in the middle of the month of November. Everything looks pretty nice, and it's a much different project than the more real imagery that I've been doing in the past. We met with our director on Friday for an hour, and she gave us some insightful feedback into our work which was half completed. We're still dialing in the looks for some of the shots, but overall she was really happy.

Charlotte's Web is looking quite nice (I'm always saying that!). All the dynamic effects work that's been rendered look amazing. I wish I could tell you all more. I'm still working on this film, and finalled my first shot last week! I still have ten that are in various stages of completion, and will be finalling another two sometime next week. The rest of the shots are currently in animation and lighting.

Saw a bunch of movies this weekend to commemorate this pagan holiday; The Shining, The Amityville Horror, Final Destination, to name a few. Tonight we'll be sitting down and watching Hide and Seek. I've heard mixed reviews out there, so I'll leave judgement until the end via this quote from George Carlin.

"I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so -- a number of them willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves -- and their whole purpose for doing this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy."