Film: October 2005 Archives
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."
Wow. The week is just flying by. My first week back on Charlotte's, and I've got a bunch of shots to complete. At this time it's mostly rough, temp comps. Basically plate assembly and pretty much getting things cleaned up and prepped for matchmove to take the next step.
So far I've been tasked with completing ten shots (so far this week!). Four are leftovers from a previous comper who has since gone down under to work at WETA to help finish up that project. The other six are new shots, which I have some time to complete. The first of them isn't due until next week. All the work that's been done so far has looked amazing. The TDs are lighting some really sweet shots. I had a chance to take a look at all the sequences we're working on, and they're pretty dope. Most of the voice work is pretty good. R&H are probably doing the animals, since they're experts at it since the Babe days.
This evening we have our wrap party/dinner for the Chevy Impala crew in downtown San Francisco. Should be a fairly small gathering, but it will be fun! The word is that the first of the spots will be shown on Saturday during the World Series, and the second one will be shown early next week.. I'm guessing the Tuesday. Keep an eye out for the two of them! They'll be up on the Tippett website once they've been aired, so keep checking there too. I'm not a huge fan of baseball, so I won't see it when it airs. I'll be too busy geeking out on Civ3 or Quake4. Or maybe for a change, hanging out with my girl.
It's a new week, and I'm on the next show! Charlotte's Web has been running smoothly, and I've just started on it this morning. I'm just finishing up some archiving for the last Impala spot, which successfully delivered on Friday. I'm not sure when these last two spots will air, but you'll probably see them on TV before I tell you!
The stuff that we're doing on Charlotte's Web is amazing. I can say that I'm a little biased, of course. We, along with a couple of other vendors, Rising Sun in Sydney and Rhythm & Hues in LA, are completing the work. Proof and Fuel are the two other facilities listed in IMDB as well. The release date for Charlotte's Web is June 23, 2006. We're doing quite a bit of shots, but we should be in good shape for our delivery. I'm definitely not sure if I'll be leading on this show, but that's ok. I've had a small run at it, and I enjoyed it. I think I'm in the pool of leads that can be chosen for the next show, so that's great. Time will tell which show it'll be!
