735 – Filmmaking, music, and other paths to an early grave

Spent a few hours last week with the wife and some animated chips. We managed to get it all in the 30 second limit, which is a challenge for someone who doesn’t normally work under those constraints like a ‘real’ commercial producer. But, I have to say, it ain’t so bad (especially after looking at some of the others, a few are good, the rest?)

Check it out and show some comment love. NOTE: Their Flash player is only 4×3, so my 16×9 file will look kinda squished. I swear it’s not originally like that. Also, when you click the link, there’s a skip intro button on the lower right… very useful.

DON’T LET ‘EM GET AWAY

UPDATE: The 16×9 squeeze to 4×3 was killing me, so I uploaded a 4×3 center cut version. Same thing, just looks a little better.

We decided to put up 2 scenes from the movie Crashing Down just as teasers (and to help in the financing hunt of course). I tell ya man, even though it’s only 2 scenes, it was a LOT of work. These aren’t what they’ll look like in the final movie, but they’re close enough for show-n-tell. Being that this film is based on Dante’s Inferno, there’s always some correlation to something from the poem. In these 2, the first one is the main character passing through the gates of hell, the second is some scenes later when he’s made it into the first circle.

Enjoy, and please, let us know what you think!

I could tweak on this for another month, but sometimes, you just gotta say enough and move on to the next thing. The voice over does need to be redone though as I’m not a V.O. person (does that have to be pointed out? LOL). V.O. redone by Jim Braton! I still have to upload the two scenes, but damn they’re big files!

Crashing Down Trailer from The Sandman on Vimeo.