Subtilize Me! Teaser Trailer Released!

Hey all! Very exiting, we just released the Subtilize Me! teaser trailer! We are getting within what we expect is a a "small" amount of months to completion! Check it out and let me know what you think!

Edit: hi-rez version: http://canadamoviemaker.googlepages.com/SubitizeMe-SubitizeTeaserTrailer-For.mov



(At the time of this posting the video is not yet fully processed on youtube, but will be shortly)

My Film Making Portfolio

Hey all, I don't think I posted this yet, but I am putting together a portfolio/list films I have done. I have a lot of work to do still to get it up to date, but I think there is enough of it now to be worth looking at:

Click here to see

Crash Site

1. My source footage from Christmas. We burned the Christmas tree when we were done with it, because it keped falling over.

2. Shake has a supper “work free” Stabilizing and tracking node called “SmoothCam”, you just tell it to lock the video, rather than smooth it, and click analyze! Vala! Done!

3. Shake also has a cool QuickPaint Node that has a very handy clone brush in it, so you can take pixels from one point of the image, and use them as your paint color. Very simple to remove the swing set.

4. I made a Cessna in blender really quick, angled it so I didn’t have to add windows. layered some textures from http://www.cgtextures.com/ and I have an airplain. I think the wing looks to bit though.

5. The clip had snow falling in it, but it was falling behind the plain not in front. So it make that less noticeable I added some extra falling snow. I exported the snow from Motion. Motion has a great particle system.

6. I add the motion back in to the clip by duplicating the SmoothCam node above and setting it to “match”.

"Simple" Set Extension

I thought this would be a simple shot to do…

I taped it with a handy cam on the end of a tripod that I held in my hand and it extended out from my hip. I was really surprised at how “smooth” it was, but when I got in to Shake… yuck, I tryed to track this thing at least a dozen times over the last week, some times with tracker nodes, other times by hand with not good results.

I should not I was not “match moving” the church to the camera, but rather stabilizing the footage, to get it, I used 2 different stabilized and smooth cam trackers. It is stabilized, smoothed, stabilized, and then smoothed again. And even then the results are not fantastic.

After I put the church and sky in, and color graded, I placed the camera movement back in to the shot.

Although the shot is not the way I would like it, I am fairly happy with the results.

SAICFF

Just got back from the SAICFF and am highly encouraged and feel at though my brain is going to explode. It was a very good experience!

Here are some of the feature films of note:

http://www.sperrymovie.com/