It's like watching that dude in my homeroom class that could draw, only I never have to look away and pretend to be uninterested.
627 2012-04-03 18:00:08
Re: Talents? (9 replies, posted in Creations)
I've always been interested in being a firefighter, just never cowboyed up to try it. Mostly I burn stuff and leave the putting out to lack of fuel. ;-)
Sqig, whachu workin on?
628 2012-04-03 14:52:48
Re: Third anniversary. (47 replies, posted in Episodes)
Too late I realize that I was associating with such arrogant douches.
Now that the scales have fallen from my eyes, I want those three years back!
629 2012-03-25 00:59:16
Re: Talents? (9 replies, posted in Creations)
What's the allure of being a volunteer fireman?
Is it pure altruism, or is it all the chicks you get after saving them?
630 2012-03-24 20:09:45
Topic: Talents? (9 replies, posted in Creations)
I assume we've all got some. There's a defunked database out there somewhere in which we listed our fan-film related skills.
Is there still a use for anything like that around here? I'll stand up and get the ball rolling...
I'm drew and:
I edit video in Premiere and can do just about everything that AE does.
Of course, also Encore for DVD and BluRay authoring, I can get good results compressing to web-streaming formats.
I use 3DSmax, for a long time now, and I'm assembling a small render farm.
I can usually write scripts (particularly in Max and AE) for whatever I need to automate.
I've got my own Canon T1i, access to the whole range of lenses from fisheye to a 200mm f/1.7, a 5D, a few GoPro's and other HD video capture rigs.
I've got a decent mic and setup for recording, and a somewhat Kermit-y voice without the pleasant overtones.
I'm running at least two major projects right now, but I'm always up for a quick change of pace for a few days. I've been busy pretty steadily on one thing or another for 5 or 6 years on numerous volunteer-level video things. No, I don't get out much.
631 2012-03-22 18:27:55
Re: Photograph your house exterior! (85 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Been 80's this week.
*-Uncharacteristically, I must admit
632 2012-03-21 17:43:25
Re: THE LORD OF THE RINGS (304 replies, posted in Episodes)
Zarban wrote:
* I fucking love those stories, Brian and Michael, read them or listen to them immediately.
[Expressions of my love for the gutenberg/librivox axis.]
633 2012-03-21 17:34:14
Re: Agora (9 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Rachel Weisz will forever be my favorite librarian. There I've admitted it.
634 2012-03-18 01:14:46
Re: This is why you want a quadcoptor rig. (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
yes,
you're correct,
i do.
636 2012-03-17 16:27:27
Re: Escape from New York (3 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Why make it Carpenter at all? You've got your own thing there, with enough change of detail. Could easily be the framework for a more-thinkier distopian adventure.
638 2012-03-15 04:29:04
Re: Agora (9 replies, posted in Off Topic)
639 2012-03-10 05:30:39
Re: THE LORD OF THE RINGS (304 replies, posted in Episodes)
Forgive a fanboy for having his favorite scene from the book cropped out.
Our heros got the heroine's journey.
640 2012-03-10 02:20:35
Re: THE LORD OF THE RINGS (304 replies, posted in Episodes)
Dorkman wrote:
Cutting the Scouring is the single best choice Jackson made.
Then why did he film Sam's vision in Galadriel's mirror? Was she just fucking with him? That scene is in the book because Saruman has enslaved Hobbiton. It's a set-up, taken from the source material, that never pays off.
It's kinda getting late for me to rewatch now to check, but doesn't Saruman die offscreen in the films? That's a major let down, compared to how Wormtongue does him in the book.
Finally, as they all return to their home town and find it occupied, we see the lasting positive effects the battles against evil have had on our hobbits. They left home sheltered fat kids, and returned able to take care of themselves. Very much the way military experience changes surviving soldiers.
If you're cutting stuff I can see losing the days with Bombadil (it's kind of a non-event in the book, also, but shows how helpless and naive the boys all start out), but then I'd have also cut the gray havens scene, which most people don't understand at all anyway.
641 2012-03-09 19:59:42
Re: THE LORD OF THE RINGS (304 replies, posted in Episodes)
Hobbit & LOTR were my over-and-over-again bedtime stories growing up.
I actually wrote a pitch to, and followed up by phone with, the Saul Zaents company in 1992. I insisted that the motion capture technology and computer animation at the time were up to the task, and that each chapter should be released separately in serial form before feature films. I proposed that this would have gotten butts in the seats in movie theaters in unpreceneded numbers. Not saying I was right, but if you were wondering who originally got this ball rolling...you're welcome. ;-)
I'll be in and out of the chat. Jackson earned my eternal venomous dislike by cutting "The scouring of the shire," the chapter of the book that properly brought home the Hobbits' respective arcs and killed Saruman in a satisfactory way. Although I do own the extended DVDs, and grudgingly await the Hobbit films... Brilliant to break that book into two films. Bilbo could have two distinct arcs that way: getting the team to the lake with all hands alive, and then, DRAGON!!
642 2012-03-08 02:56:04
Re: finally making the jump to video editing (23 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Adobe Media Encoder (may not come with Premiere Automatically, idk, perhaps only when you buy one of the suites.) It can usually handle formats that Premiere itself won't want to use, and convert them as desired.
643 2012-02-26 03:48:02
Re: The Down in Front Listener Corkboard (19 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Damn you and your indescribable fjords, Ellingsen!
644 2012-02-21 06:03:55
Re: Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread (971 replies, posted in Movie Stuff)
OMG, Cashback.
That made my life measurably better from this day forward.
645 2012-02-20 14:33:44
Re: DiF Pets!! (20 replies, posted in Off Topic)
There are more, some are cuter.
646 2012-02-17 16:48:24
Re: Ark - A Big Damned Webseries by Trey Stokes (38 replies, posted in Creations)
Like Ark, get job? Yes, Please.
647 2012-02-10 04:30:10
Re: Chronicle (28 replies, posted in Off Topic)
(Also, you misused the semicolon in the "If, then" construction.)
-drew [normally knows better than to fuck with an english major who knows kung-fu...]
648 2012-02-02 05:18:14
Re: The DIF Gone Video Is Done! (14 replies, posted in Creations)
Tons o' fun! Great work mixing it all up there, Mr. Chrystie.
649 2012-01-30 03:17:45
Re: Apocalypse, CA DVD. (33 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Watched last night. Blown away. Love all your characters (I know I'm a pig, but Renee is my fav...) Really impressed at how you tied it all together. The actors all deserve twice whatever you paid them, and the VFX crew is worth triple at least!
Huge thanks for the reply on distribution. I have another question: ratings? We all know about MPAA...but have you ever come across another set of ratings guidelines you could apply yourself..."Rated, 'Not for the Meek' for frank sexual discussion, mild nudity and explosive dismemberments." Heck, that could be a clever part of a marketing pitch. TV ratings did something like that for a while to warn uptight parents about the content of the angsty teen shows. "PG-dsl" (drug use, sex and language)
650 2012-01-19 19:01:57
Re: Astrophotography (43 replies, posted in Creations)
Wicked shots Saniss. I may get inspired enough to process the milky way pano I took last summer. T2i and a tripods all I've been using, but I have a t-mount for my 4" reflector, but it works best under daylight.