December 2009 Blog Posts (8)

Happy Holidays! 2010 is going to be a big year for Project London!

Thank you everyone for your support. We are looking forward to 2010 as the year that Project London is unleashed on an unsuspecting planet. To prepare ourselves for the onslaught, and to enjoy a bit of the holidays, we're going to take a break from blogging through the holidays.

However, we will continue to work on the film and Ian will recap our progress in his next post right around January 7, 2010. In the meantime, we are preparing a new… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on December 19, 2009 at 2:42pm — No Comments

The Producer’s Report #97 - One Big Fail

This week smelled like something that had been dead for about three and a half years. Lie. I was utterly repulsed by what I saw today, and I no longer have any faith in this project. Lie. I wish to assault physically the last three years. But that's an intangible object. So I'm taking it to the streets. Lie.

Hey, just shaking it up a bit today. The truth is, I'm "over the moon" about all that's happening.

Here are the… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on December 19, 2009 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

The Ian Report #477 - The harder they come...

Nate Taylor and I are tackling the hardest shots left in the movie—based on our estimates. After this, it's all downhill (is that the right word choice? I don't think it's the right wordchoice).

One side effect of nearing the end is that the shot locations are now so scattered about that I almost always have to set up the entire scene for it, and lug up old elements and put them in place—as opposed to when I'm working on a whole sequence… Continue

Added by Ian Hubert on December 17, 2009 at 9:58am — No Comments

The Producer’s Report #96

Last night at the Sunset, Half Acre Day played an epic set including all my favorite songs and a bunch of new songs destined to be new favorites. Great fun. This morning we listened to a few more tracks from Ed and Dan. We are winding down with syncing and scrubbing dialogue, really in fact, it's basically done. I'm now very anxious to get the ADR tracks into the timeline.

Here are… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on December 12, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

The Ian Report #476 - Depth and Displacement

This week is... exactly like all the weeks of the last few months! Still animating the final battle, and things are looking great! I'm currently compositing a shot from Nate Taylor, involving giant beasts and big missiles.

I had to create a higher-res version of Subject C's head for an extreme close up, which I was able to do by rendering out a still and a depth map, adding all the textures to the still, then using the depth map as a… Continue

Added by Ian Hubert on December 10, 2009 at 8:29pm — No Comments

LunchBag Art is Cool!

Jusk knocking around the Interweb, I stumbled accross Lunch Bag Art. This wonderful artist creates new artwork for his kids' lunch bags every day. I thought it would be so cool to see Arizona on a lunch bag, I sent him an email asking about the possibility. 24 hours later, this illustration (below) was sent to me. And now it's on… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on December 8, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

The Producer’s Report #95 - Holiday Progress

It's been two weeks since our last report. We celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, ate lots of turkey and stuffing. And through it all we kept our shoulder to the stone, nudging it forward to make more progress on the film and related items.

Charla Grenz-Solheim has been working with us to write up "our story" and it's coming together wonderfully.

We'd like to thank Jim Thacker at Jawbone.tv for writing a great… Continue

Added by Phil McCoy on December 5, 2009 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

The Ian Report #475 - Pedal to the Metal!

Whew! That Thanksgiving was a doozy! I had four separate thanksgiving dinners, I think—nice to finally be back in the swing of things (and I have to admit, it'll be nice to stop being perpetually stuffed).

I'm discovering all my best animating moments are total accidents. Weird results in the IPO curve that somehow result in the illusion of motivated movement; I'm not nearly as nuanced of an animator to be able to do most of it… Continue

Added by Ian Hubert on December 2, 2009 at 2:04pm — No Comments