I don’t know why I didn’t post this months ago. It’s just been sitting in my drafts folder. So I’m posting now.
Nearly a year ago now, I did two additional “color explorations” of the Dull Objects piece. These came out of some tests I was doing while trying to figure out what the final video was going to look like. I figured I’d share these with you in lieu of any new video content I have.
In the first one, I used a sweeping posterized color tint. I had originally wanted to do something with color, but ultimately landed on an over-saturated look. This was my first test.
This second one is my Wild Card! A contrasted, liquified, yellow. Think real life anime. Bearded fantasy. It only works well on some of the shots, and I was too lazy to make it look really great the whole way through.
Lastly, here’s a version using a technique for faking depth of field. It is subtly different that the main video, but out of the 4 versions, I think I prefer this one the best.
So I realize I haven’t posted any Miabi Movies lately. I’ve gotten quite busy at work and at play and have been neglecting all of this new stop motion stuff I’ve been promising. Here’s another video I created as a test. Again, there was absolutely no plan going into this. If you can detect a plot, you win my love. I was making it up as I went along. Which proves that I’m willing to post crap, just so you have some content to look at. It’s stupid and not even sure it show’s progress. But the music is nice!
A mad scientist tries to reanimate a copper coil and takes what he’s learned to reanimate Corey, his clay friend.
2010 (0:26) – I was playing around with some new stop motion software over the weekend and created this tragic tale about a duck. Since I was just testing out the software and have no idea how to create stop motion movies, I was pretty much making it up as I went along. There’s really no rhyme or reason to it. Hopefully I’ll create something far more interesting in the coming weeks. Until then.. Duck Motion.
Who’s in my fridge? I think they’re leaving the light on. Not sure though. Does milk frighten them? Are they just looking for paradise? These fridge people better help pay this month’s energy bill.
Folks. This is a glorious day. Many people know my love of 3D. It’s my favorite gimmick. I believe everyone should own a pair of good 3D glasses. Non-cereal box variety. That’s why I went on eBay a few years back and got a pair of 3D clip-on specs. This way, I could conveniently flip them up and out of the way when I’m not using them. Well, now I present to you my first 3D movie. Whip out your red and blue 3D googles and enjoy a wild ride in a stolen space ship. In multiple dimensions!
Here’s the original movie, posted yesterday. You can find the plot there. No idea why we’re calling it “Don’t Ask”. Don’t ask.
I was fooling around with some After Effects tutorials and created this hunk of silly. Actually I just followed Andrew Kramer’s great tutorial as closely as possible. The sound design makes me think of THX 1138, which in my opinion, is the coolest sound design ever. Thanks Walter Murch! I’m really not sure what this is supposed to be. It appears as though I’ve stolen a space ship of sorts and am trying to evade people trying to get it back. I really don’t know how to fly the thing, but I always did want to go into space. Figured this was my best chance. What do all the doohickey’s do?
I was sure this day would come. I thought it would come 3 years ago. But it’s here now and I hope you are all frothing at the mouth, chomping at the bit, doing whatever it is you do when you’re excited. Stall has been completed. A project that started in the summer of 2005, four years later is done. This movie has gone through so much since then.
Stall is a short comedy about a guy stuck in a bathroom. Paul just wants to get home, but that is easier said than done.
Lespants came to me in the spring of ’05 and said hey do you want to work on this movie I wrote? I thought it was a funny script and said sure. We held some pre-pro meetings and had a casting call. Our mutual friend Dave Schoner provided the location, and what a perfect location it was. We actually didn’t have the bathroom until the very last minute, but it worked out great. We had an empty building in Newark, NJ and an office for staging. 2 days in a stifling bathroom was rough, but everyone was just happy to be shooting it. That proved to be the easy part.
Our dear friend Dan began cutting it in the fall of ’05 and gave us a great first cut. But life took over and bills needed to be paid, so Dan bowed out of the project. That winter Christian took all of the footage to California with him and planned on finishing the thing there. A stolen hard drive and a year later, the footage came back east.
Other projects began to take priority, but Stall always lingered. Much of this is Dan’s original cut, which I basically trimmed and finessed. Ultimately adding music, sound design, and doing color.
There is so much footage littering the cutting-room floor. The original script was about 20 pages and we shot most of it. We were wet behind the ears back then and weren’t sure what we could do with it. 20+ minutes would have been too long. I toyed with the idea of making it a web mini-series. Though It probably was more like a TV pilot than anything else. In the end, I’m just happy it’s finished so we can put this project behind us. We owed it to Matt and Michael who are awesome in it and worked their butts off.
Lespants and I did another Howcast video. This time we’re playing Gin. We decided to forgo the humor and do a mood piece. Of course we still think it’s hilarious. Good buddy Hank Offinger graciously donated some of his time to help out and thank god he did. Without dialog, his great facial expressions really sell the thing. Not only did I get to play with After Effects a bit, but I got to wear my awesome Justin Timberlake hat AND be a sore loser on camera. This is me trying to be brooding. Couldn’t really ask for anything more.
We got to again work with the awesome and friendly people at Howcast which was really nice. Their website is not only a place to find great How To videos, but it’s such a resource for filmmakers looking to sharpen their skills. Definitely check it out.
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