I know it’s been a little quiet this week - I’d like to apologise for that - things have been changing around a bit at work for me recently, and I’m also moving house this weekend (and so will probably be internet-less at home for a bit… I’ll still be keeping things updated on here, […]

I know I’ve already linked to HD For Indies once this month, but I followed a link to another post over there that was incredibly informative, especially as I’ve been thinking about the different HD formats recently….
Thanks to worldofmaya for posting on VFXTalk.com with this link:
HD For Indies: Format Overview: what the various tape formats […]

Well, the shoot yesterday went well, except for a couple of small issues….
The plan was to go and get two shots (things changed since my last post on this), that we could use to develop the look of the lasers from the two characters in the opening scene. We decided to go for dynamic shots […]

I discovered something not so good today when shooting this concept footage…. (More details of how that went later…)
The Sony HVR-Z1E, which is what we’re using on Roy’s Odyssey, only allows you to do PAL, NTSC or 1080i…. I was sure (must have dreamt it) that you could do 720p on it, which is what […]

I got home tonight to find a parcel of tracking markers waiting for me - just in time for their first outing this weekend:

Once we’ve done this shoot this weekend, I should have a lot more for you - hopefully this week’s lull won’t continue for too long.

We’re (planning on) doing a bit of shooting this weekend, to start getting the style for the lasers planned out. I’m planning on shooting three things:

Long shot of person (to give an idea of what the lasers will look like from a distance)
Close shot of person’s head (for the laser coming out of the eyes)
Close […]

I remember one project I worked on - it was a couple of shots for a friend’s short, and I had to put a picture onto a (then blank) cinema screen. There was someone standing on a stage in front of the screen who I had to roto out. Looking back on it, it was […]

I’ve just read a fantastic post over at HD for Indies on the benefits of shooting on HD over film. The post comes as a result of a long discussion that the author had on Cinematography.net. However, while the author is very much in favour of HD, he is quite willing to put forward arguments […]

I’ve been messing around with a few home-grown hacks for this blog over the past few days…
One of them went operational yesterday - the “recent comments” section in the side-bar - it shows the most recent posts to have comments added, plus the number of comments on each of those posts.
The other one that I’ve […]

The guy who’s making the tracking markers for me got me a couple to check - just to make sure everything was good…
As I said before, he’s doing 10 with wires, and 10 without. Something I didn’t mention last time is that, of the 10 without wires, 5 would have the LED straight on from […]