Monday, January 24, 2011

VFX Before & Afters - 'The Courier'

Every now and then I feel compelled to revisit 'The Courier' and see what else I can get out of it. I must admit to never being thorough in compiling behind the scenes videos for it, despite having shot a lot of material.

Finally, after finding myself with a serious desire to procrastinate, I ended up completing some 'making-of' material.

I always wanted to put together an extensive DVD for The Courier, but for whatever reason (it seemed pointless for such a small film... and I was lazy) it never got done. However, I always wanted to point out just how much of the film was affected, because I think a lot of people often take for granted how much work gets put into these sorts of films.

So on that note, allow me to present a side-by-side version of 'The Courier'






Considering it's probably the short film I'm proudest of, I guess it's not surprising that I revisit it, both to milk it for more content (I don't get to make as many films as I'd like, so it's therapeutic) as well as to try and re-learn some of the film making fundamentals I think I've forgotten since then.

While I'm at it, here's a few more examples of me not being able to leave it alone. When I needed to update my compositing show reel (after my catastrophic HDD crash... oh the memories), I decided I'd redo a couple of shots.



All that has really done is make me want to redo the whole thing!

Maybe I'll get around to finishing episode 2 one day. Anybody want to volunteer to animate a tentacled monster (we only see the tentacles)?

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