Marketing begins!

...well, it will soon, anyway! Here's a preview of some artwork I've created for festivals, dvd covers and so on.

Good grades

Here's a couple of examples of the grades that Zane is working on.

Likey likey!

Small beginnings

For your viewing pleasure, here is the comic that started it all... The Sparrow.

I'm mortified to see that I wrote and illustrated it in 2008... How long have I been working on this project?!

Anyway, The Sparrow - enjoy!

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Real sunset on Mars...

Wow - the real thing (as opposed to my cg creations mentioned in earlier posts): a time-lapse sunset on Mars... Beautiful... Click the link to see it here.

Space Ball!

Found this on my drive the other day: an old animation I made. I didn't quite pull the ending off as successfully as I intended, but it's actually not too bad. :-)

New year resolutions

My New year's resolution? Well, duh! - finishing Last Flight of course.

Not that my recent progress has been supersonic; I've been a little unhappy with the shape of the film since seeing it with the first rough sound mix, and have decided to re-edit a few sequences. This has seen me remove the opening narration I introduced a few months ago and replacing it with some titles, which I think works better.

I've also reworked a couple of the seagull shots which were making me cringe every time I saw them - by replacing some of the footage with purchased material from Pond5. Cheating I guess, but it looks much better.

Most dramatically, I've removed a major scene from the film. I kind of already knew that this scene was impeding the flow of the story - but it seemed kind of pivotal - until I took it out. Now it seems like it may have been a good idea - assuming I haven't just rendered the entire movie incomprehensible! ...Which is hard for me to tell, I'm so damn close to it.

An edit has gone to Zane at Sunset Studios now for grading - so am hoping to see some concepts for the colouring of the film shortly, which I'll post up here.

Happy New Year,

DK

Compositing complete!

Woot!

And off to Entirely Sound to hear the first rough sound mix today. Exciting!!!

Prog report for you peeps

We've made leaps and bounds in the last couple of weeks!

The ADR was successfully recorded at Entirely Sound 2 two weeks ago with Kassie and Bevan - and sounded terrific.

Meanwhile the compositing is all but finished - bar a couple of shots that need some polishing up. Then it's off for grading... which the film needs badly - - colours, contrasts and lighting jump around something dreadful, plus the whole thing just needs to be Marsified. It still looks way to "Earthy".

Dylan has been working his magic on the music and come up with some real moody, evocative stuff and will be forwarding it on to Entirely Sound for a first rough mix, which is exciting!

The plan is to have the whole thing ready to go by February... hard to believe, I know, but we'll get there.

I mean, eventually we just have to, right?

ADR Monday

That's Automated Dialogue Replacement to you, pal! We're redubbing all the dialogue in Last Flight to get a pristine, consistent sound throughout. We're also using it as an opportunity to add some more character to the astronaut - grunts, sighs, and comments that hopefully will help the audience to connect with her.

We're also recording with Bevan Chuang - who has graciously agreed to read a version of the newsreader in Mandarin, which will be mixed in with the other versions we have.

In other news - all the CG renders are completed! Woot!

New test from Oana...