My buddy George Hull has co-authored a book on concept art, and to say that you want it is the understatement of all blogdom. Visit George's site, drool over his artwork (from films like Matrix 2 and 3 and The Island), and click on his link for more info on the book.
The Orphanage is Hiring Compositors!
If you're in the Bay Area or would like to be, know AE and have feature film work on your reel, send an email to recruiting[at]theorphanage[dot]com.
And if you've read and understood all the color mumbo jumbo on this blog, tell them you're applying for my job. :)
Toshiba HDDVD Commercial Online
The Toshiba HDDVD spot I directed for Della Famina (mentioned here) is now online, on the front page of Toshiba's HDDVD site. I hope to post more here about the making of this spot, as it was a real puzzle of previs, stock footage, a challenging one-day HD shoot, and two short weeks of post!
Filter Forge
Uhm, Damn.
Cross-platform After Effects 7.0 version please!
Ruby Tuesday Ad Online
The commercial I directed for Ruby Tuesday, the one that features four tiny Mini Coopers, is finally online:
The Great Race (direct from rubytuesday.com)
Would you believe that the single largest source of traffic to this blog is this thread on motoringfile.com, a Mini Cooper news and info site? I'm sure more than one Mini fan has scratched his head at some of the articles here, but rest assured you have found the home of one of your own—the 2005 Cooper S used for the interior shots in the commercial belongs to my wife, and yes, she occasionally lets me drive it!
For those who missed it, here's the article about the automatic animation system I rigged up in After Effects to enable rapid tweaking of my animatic for the spot, and here's the article on fxguide where you can see some frame grabs.