NOTE:
IF HAVEN’T SEEN THE 4 MINUTE TEASER VIDEO posted as #1 video PLEASE SCROLL UP AND VIEW IT BEFORE YOU VIEW THIS VIDEO.
The way the fx were done will surprise you if you view the teaser film “FIRST”.
THIS VIDEO IS SELF-EXPLANATORY, FUN, AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND. ENJOY!
(Coming soon posts will present never before seen photos taken for make-up tests, bridge construction, fx set-ups, etc.)
P.S. I am the Klilngon holding the cube in this posts video.
John
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June 9, 2012 at 2:35 am
Well worth a thirty years’ wait!
June 9, 2012 at 2:40 am
Thanks for the nice comment. Hope you continue to enjoy the things i add to the blog.
June 9, 2012 at 3:04 am
Now for something more substantial.
Watching the teaser clips I am struck by the inter-dependency of the story and the movie-making art. For example, several plot elements seem to be driven by available techniques (the miniature officer, for example or the psychedelic Organia). Yet those techniques are absolutely grounded in the laws of nature, or physics if you prefer, and look real in spite of the low res 8mm stock etc.
In fact, I prefer these effects and the story that inter-depends on them, to the glitziest, most polished and damned near “perfect” stuff that is done today on CG rendering farms. Why is that? I think it’s because CG is released from the laws of nature and, no matter how much attention is paid to the models by the programmers, they are always off. Further, because CG is essentially limitless in concept at least, the story is also swept away from the laws of nature which leads, often enough, to unbelievable (or at least non-suspendable) plots with all manner of gimmick and frankly bloviation.
In all, I am frankly well impressed by the ingenuity John &co brought to bear on this little project and intrigued by how it drove the art of film-making hand-in-hand. There is something reassuring in the bits and pieces we’ve seen so far, something (dare I borrow from STII?) “human” that is not found in CG based efforts, even out of Hollywood.
BRAVO!
July 15, 2012 at 6:10 pm
I have returned to this entry numerous times, I just can’t get enough of it. I wonder how many other CINEMAGIC readers decided to tackle Your Ariel Image Optical Printer (issues 4 and 5)?
July 16, 2012 at 7:02 pm
So far just three.