The Light

We can see the light at the end of the Alice in Wonderland tunnel. I have worked on more shots in this movie than any other to date. I have had a hand in over 55 shots with tech fixes, green screen keys, adding or removing elements and other thing.

I was lucky to be the lighter compositor for just shy of 30 aforementioned shots which was nice because I really like being able to take a shot though all the different stages and end with the final image seen on screen.

More updates soon, planning my summer and it could be interesting.

From Sony

The crew of Alice in Wonderland all got a nice Christmas gift from
management. The new book "The Art of Tim Burton".

Check out the cover below. It's an awesome collection of drawings if
your a fan.

Alice in Wonderland Full Trailer

Alice in Wonderland Full Trailer

My First Cell Phone

Sometimes when I get pissed with my current cell phone I think back to my first one... then all my troubles are gone.

New Alice in Wonderland Posters

A couple new posters were released for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

see more here

Toyota Borrowing my Photos?

A couple days ago I was alerted that a photo form my flickr stream was being used on a website advertising the Toyota 4 Runner without my permission. A number of other photographers also had their images used as well without permission.


Toyota has removed the images from the site and issued an apology but has yet to contact any of the photographers and you can read about on the sites below:

http://www.pdnpulse.com/

http://news.cnet.com/

http://thedenveregotist.com/

http://blog.calanan.com

http://www.snorrigunnarsson.com

A big thanks to Michael Calanan for letting me know.

Here is my original image Toyota used:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/posetopose/3908994254/


edit:
The advertising agency has been in contact and is looking for ways to resolve the issue.

Sony Pictures Imageworks & The Foundry

Interesting read today on fxguide about how Sony and The Foundry are merging technologies. I was glad they released some screen shots of the lighting/compositing software we use.

Read more here, screen shots from the article below:
http://www.fxguide.com/article570.html

Antichrist

This is probably the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. At least in recent history.

The film is low budget at times and has an ending that reminds me of a emo NY Film students wet dream but the start of the film is beautiful and the middle has some really messed up shots that you will take to the grave.



Its a limited release, probably not going to play long but if you get the chance its worth a couple bucks.

Paragliding

Flying

What I am doing today!!

Surfing Is Fun

Something I have been attempting to do over the last two years is learn to surf. So far the result has been somewhere between FAIL and EPIC FAIL however I remain optimistic, even somewhat enthusiastic about what the future holds.

Last weekend I had a particularly nice wipe out that resulted in a broken fin on my board. The picture below I took right after breaking my fin and it illustrates almost exactly what I did. Like the rider on the right, I was riding the crest of the wave except in a kneeling position. Then like the rider on the left I pushed the board out of the way and free fell in front of the wave screaming in a very high voice.


Surfing is the highlight of my day.

Trailer Shots

I screen grabbed a couple stills form the Alice in Wonderland trailer. These are shots that I worked on. The first two I lit, rendered and comped as well as did all the green screen work.

The last image I assisted on, pulling the green screen, color correcting Alice and doing some final comp treatments as well as creating a multi level dust mote effect in 2D.

Alice in Wonderland Trailer in HD

G-Force News

There are a couple cool articles floating around on the tech behind G-Force. Here are some statistics from Popular Mechanics website.

There were 271,955,886,586 photorealistic hairs rendered in the movie.
A giant robot with 78,000 geometric pieces and 16,400,000 polygons.
Storing the film required 515 terabytes of space
The longest render time for one frame was 125 hours.
There were over 1800 shots in the movie. (Plus the 3D stereo shots)

Also BoxOfficeMojo has G-Force at #1 bringing in an estimated $32,185,000.

Alice in Wonderland Teaser Trailer

Everyone has probably seen it but here it is: New Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer. I go on Vacation for five days and everything happens.

WOOOOOOOOT

I just saw that "I Watch Stuff" just posted a single screen shot form Alice in Wonderland that I worked on. Another lighter did most of the lighting and rendering then I did a lot of the comp work including the green screen for Alice.

Source