Today's News

Here's a still of Angela Funk as Rachel, and another of David Ian Lee as Raglan, in Clonehunter.

Today, now that we have a new (and earlier) deadline to be finished with Clonehunter, has been "figure out exactly what we need to be doing" day. We do have quite a few more visual effects shots to have complete by the end of December. And to make life more interesting, Maduka will be leaving mid-December for Geneva.

I believe the whole picture is color-corrected. I have beliefs like that. We have a mix of every act except for Act 4 (we're waiting on the music from Sam Reising) and Act 8 (waiting on music from Drake Sherman and sound effects from David Frey.)

In other exciting news Ian Hubert will be working on visual effects and creating our city flythroughs.

Fish. Artist and sculptor extraordinaire.

New Delivery Date

Box Blur confuses me sometimes too. But I know to go for it first. I just don't always understand it.

So here's a thing: looks like we gotta move Clonehunter up 30 days. Luckily I'd put about a 30 day "buffer" in our schedule but now we gotta make it with no mistakes. We'll must needs deliver picture at the beginning or middle of January.

Tina Fey:
"They made a porn movie about Sarah Palin and the same actress, Lisa Ann, played me in the porn version of '30 Rock.' Weirdly, of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy."

Orange Pants

Here's a script that will move sequences from Final Cut Pro to After Effects. Wow. So could have had this a few months ago. The Popcorn Island Final Cut 2 After Effects Script. Whew.

These guys have a post about moving from Mac to PC (which is something we occasionally have to do with picture.) The procedure involves opening the .xml file and doing stuff with it.

All of this exciting information comes via a Twitter from Stu.

Today I am avoiding reading scripts. Oh, and contracts. I gotta stop those two avoidances...

Moving To Vermont

If I ever moved to Vermont I would expect the following exchange to take place between me and the Official Welcomer at Border Control.

"Hi, I'm coming to live here."
"Ah, yes, another white guy moving to Vermont. Here's your micro-brewery license, your fleece jacket, and you have a choice between the Subaru, the '97 Jeep with balding snow tires, or the Volvo -- but only if you live in town."
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I just read Boneshaker -- it's kind of a checklist of steampunk. Airships, fancy armor, lots of goggles and gas masks, even zombies. And I liked it pretty well. My only complaint was that the 15-year-old boy was kind of a stereotype of a 15-year-old boy.
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And yes, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the one he didn't finish.

More Art

Via Deepstructure: that movie poster credit font you want. It's called SteelTongs.

I'm making a high-res version of the Clonehunter artwork. If you want a copy to print out, just ask me!

Couch for Napping

Anti moire filter.

I have coined a new minced curse of which I am quite proud: "Julie Christie it's cold outside."
I can't believe I'd never thought of that before.

Red Giant makes Holomatrix which is a hologram plug-in for After Effects. We seem to have holograms in all our movies.

I need a steam room. Maybe a humidor. For me, a couple guitars, heck -- I'll even keep cigars in there if I have to. I just want one. With a couch for napping.

Embargo Over

Clonehunter Trailer from Andrew Bellware on Vimeo.

Here's the trailer to Clonehunter. The irony is that the best visual effects aren't even in the trailer (so it might get revised for the Cannes Film Market.)

For You

Steve Burg.

The Lion the Witch and the Werewolf

So today's big stressor is that we're waiting to hear if we made any sales at the AFM. Oh me oh my oh me. But I had a big hour-long massage so I'm basically a liquid today. That helps. But please tell us the picture has been bought.

How to make friends by telephone. I guess this thing was once actually published by Bell Telephone -- in the '40's. Via Martin Klasch.

Stills from Shoot

Here are a couple stills from Maduka's shoot last week. He's using Mitchell's DVX100, shooting in the fabulous Lower East Side of Manahatta.

That's Jim Mickle's crazy setting on the DVX which starts off this nice amber look, and (I think) Magic Bullet's Warm Bird color for even more of that fun.

In the lower picture that's Robin Kurtz (on the ground), Nadia Dassouki (center), and Tzaddi Simmons (on the right).