Here’s an animation I did with Fresh Charities and Bryan Edwards. This one was really fun because Bryan designed it all. He laid it all out for me and just delivered the files. So that was nice. Plus it helps that he’s got a great style and I think we both mesh in the way we do things. Cool guy. Cool charity and would love to work with them again.
TAB Music Video
So I shot a music video not too long ago with my buddy Ryan Groves. He’s been heading up a new thing called TAB or The Artist’s Bible which is working in conjunction with the YouVersion Bible App. This particular series involves the Easter season. And I was picked as the Day of Darkness or the Saturday after Good Friday.
I honestly had no idea what the concept was until pretty much the day of the shoot. I hadn’t even heard the song.
The band was set up on a stage and there wasn’t much else to it. It was in an awesome old church so I had that to work with but that was about it. It was either blast them with flat stage lights or light your own. So I chose light your own. My first thoughts was to do a big soft light overhead…but that wasn’t going to happen with a 3 piece band on stage and about 40 ft to cover so…I went the back light route. Threw as many lights as I could behind them and just played with the lens flare. Had the 7D on the jib for two takes and then had the 5D ready to roll for the remaining takes.
In the end got some descent shots for like a two hour shoot. Not sure when and where the final will be posted but I’ll put it here when I do.
Prop Making — Missle Part 1
Now that my film is done and I need to put these busy hands to something. I decided to try out making props. While I was making Wolf Head, probably my favorite part was making some of the props! It was really fun! So I decided to make a giant bomb or missle for no reason in particular. Just thought surely I’m going to need one at some point for my films. Plus I need to get tactile every now and then. Get away from a digital world. I did a little test Missle first: It cost me about $3.00 total. It might be a little over done in the rust but I wanted to see how far I could take it. So now I made a BIG one. Here’s some step by step…
1). I started with some chicken wire ($12) and sort of cone shaped it to be skinnier on one end and wider on the other.
2). Then put in a ball shape on the nose of it.
3). I cut some foam board for the fins ($2)
4). Then I knew from my test that the spray foam would not only shape but basically glue the fins to the mesh.
5). And lastly, covered the entire thing with expanding spray foam. It took three cans ($9).
So far I’ve spent about $23 on it! One thing I’m noticing is that it’s going to take quite a bit of sanding to get it smooth. And even then it’s very porous. Updates coming soon.
