A quick post about South Australian feature film 'Swerve'
Sean has been working as the editor of the film, and through it I got my first compositing job on a feature film. I'll have more to write about the experience (the SAFC funded me as a VFX Attachment) as well as more to write about the film as it gets closer to release.
I'm not going to make any bones about it... this is mostly another opportunity for me to embed The Courier somewhere. However I might as well take the time to do something with this.
One of the reasons I've chosen Jung Justice as a blog name is because as a storyteller I'm heavily influenced by Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. Jung's views on dreams and art as an important cathartic exercise validate my chosen vocation, so I'm hardly going to disagree and just about everything I've learnt about film and storytelling has come via Campbell's Hero's Journey in some shape or form.
The connective power of myths and legends (and how that interweaves with our dreams and our worldviews) fascinates me to no end and when these colossal elements and themes pervade what appear to be mundane narratives, I'm thrilled.
While I can't read everything on the page (i think its in Dutch... or German), it does look like it says
'The Courier' is in their top 10 sci-fi short films on the internet. That's really awesome, and I'm incredibly
happy with how this film seems to really be picking up steam 2 years after its completion.
I've got a stack of Courier stories waiting to be told. Hopefully somebody out there will get behind it
and help me turn it into an animated series. I've got three 13 episode seasons planned out and I can tell
you Jack Carrier's adventures haven't even started.
Despite all the ridiculous vfx we've tried out in the past, we had yet to do a simple driving scene.
With 'The Car of Awesome!', the first part in a new web series we are putting together, we thought it was time we remedied that fact. And so here is a quick test we did last Friday to make sure we weren't getting in over our heads. The entire test (filming and compositing) was done in about an hour and was very loose.
We're pretty happy with the results for something so quick and dirty, so onto production proper it is!
Very exciting news! Youtube has informed me that 'The Courier' is eligible for the Youtube Partnership Programme, which means that from here on out, it'll start generating revenue!
It won't be much (the film is still at only 3,000 views on the tube), but it's a wonderful start and is extremely encouraging. More important than any potential dollars (going to be more like cents) is the fact that this silly little film is still finding an audience... one that appears to be growing. 'The Courier' was invited to take part in the TFI3 festival in Washington this month, but my own lack of Producer tendencies means I missed the boat. Still it was very flattering to have somebody else find my film and ask me to submit it to their festival.
Looks like there's still life in 'The Courier' yet. :)
looks like Chyna has actually uploaded the test shots I did for him.
The quality of source clip was low, and the turnaround was very fast, but I just wanted to show him that clean keys (on the HD source) were doable and to see what some of his shots might look like with a quick muzzle flash.
I didn't quite know what do with them all so I made a quick Shoji background (thanks Samurai Fiction) as it seemed appropriate
So, Chyna McCoy (stunt double for Morpheus in Matrix 1& 2) contacted me the other day and now I'm doing a few visual fx shots for a feature film he's producing and starring in called Killer of Killers.
So that's pretty cool... I mean, it's not every day that somebody who's work you've been appreciating since high school contacts you and says he's a fan of your work.
How could I say no?
Sounds like there's going to be some pretty intense action visual fx coming out of Heavily Armed Productions in the next few months. What, with this and 'The Runner', we should cover just about every trope of the action genre (I can only hope!).
