It's been a long time coming. Thanks to Ricky Elliott, over the next few weeks you'll be seeing a lot of scenes posted up here. The film as a whole will be uncompleted but I will post up most of the scenes that I can get behind. It will make me feel complete and I can move on.
OPENING
CARMEN
- Antoine Bandele (Director)
Showing posts with label Ricky Elliott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ricky Elliott. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, October 19, 2009
TDC Visual FX Work Begins!
Hey howdy hey all!
What? You thought "The Devil's Company" was dead? Shame on you...
VFX and color correction for TDC has begun and rages on! Below are just a very small example of what's being done, some of the more ambitious shots in the film will leave you wondering if any of the actors made it out of the film alive. Or the crew for that matter. There's only one reason the film had an "end" really...
Hover to see the original
- Ricky Elliott (VFX Guru)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
A Look at the TDC Visual Effects
Hey all, I've been meaning to post for awhile, but needed something to show you until now. For "The Devil's Company," I'm acting as a one-man army on various visual effects. Truly no two of any visuals done are the same. From replacing a cigarette box logo to creating a 1,000,000-particle materialization intro, I tend to work on this stuff closely with Antoine in order to really help get the look he needs. I have a few things I want to show you, nothing too big, just to give you a taste for what's in store...
First and foremost, the blog background. It's a cool premise: have the actual characters on one side, and some BTS stills on the right. Depending on your monitor, the longer it is, the more you get to see, so look out for that.
Here's something most of you (should've) seen already: the intro for the BTS video. This intro took over 11 hours to render out, rendered 3 different times because of various trips back to fix mistakes. As I mentioned before, over 1,000,000 particles a second are being produced, which is no easy feat.
This one was left on the cutting floor, before there was even footage for it: a motel sign. The idea here was just a simple neon "motel" sign, but in the end was cut.
This was a pre-viz done to see if it COULD actually be done, which is illustrated. I didn't have much experience with tracking points and such, so this was kind of new. This method created on the spot effectively kills two birds with one stone: a perfect track, and a clean erase of the markers.
Possibly after post is done and the film is released, I'll show some bigger sequences, and some more pre-viz stuff that went down... When I'm not doing this, I'm working on other filmmaking projects, practicing piano, AND appearing in a few "Deal or No Deal" episodes, airing May 4th. Until we meet again....
Click here to see some of my other work.
- R.A. Elliott (VFX Wizard)
First and foremost, the blog background. It's a cool premise: have the actual characters on one side, and some BTS stills on the right. Depending on your monitor, the longer it is, the more you get to see, so look out for that.
Here's something most of you (should've) seen already: the intro for the BTS video. This intro took over 11 hours to render out, rendered 3 different times because of various trips back to fix mistakes. As I mentioned before, over 1,000,000 particles a second are being produced, which is no easy feat.
***A Devil's Company Blog Exclusive***
This one was left on the cutting floor, before there was even footage for it: a motel sign. The idea here was just a simple neon "motel" sign, but in the end was cut.
***A Devil's Company Blog Exclusive***
This was a pre-viz done to see if it COULD actually be done, which is illustrated. I didn't have much experience with tracking points and such, so this was kind of new. This method created on the spot effectively kills two birds with one stone: a perfect track, and a clean erase of the markers.
***A Devil's Company Blog Exclusive***
Possibly after post is done and the film is released, I'll show some bigger sequences, and some more pre-viz stuff that went down... When I'm not doing this, I'm working on other filmmaking projects, practicing piano, AND appearing in a few "Deal or No Deal" episodes, airing May 4th. Until we meet again....
Click here to see some of my other work.
- R.A. Elliott (VFX Wizard)
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Behind the Scene - A Day on the Set
"The Devil's Company" - A Day on the Set (BTS) from Antoine Bandele on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
Here is an alternative YouTube link.
- Antoine Bandele (Director)
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Update: 03-26-09
Sorry. I missed a production day. I'll be sure to post both days three and four back-to-back this coming Sunday after we shoot.
In other news I've got all the rough edits done for all the scenes we shot so far. I just got over an edit that has been bugging me and I've been avoiding since the second day of shooting. I've got something that's viewable but this particular scene will take me sometime to get down. I wanted it to play for only forty-five seconds or a minute but it has a two minute duration right now. Eek!
In other news. I've just got a Visual FX (Ricardo Elliott) guy on board to do some gunshots, bullet hole wounds and some color correcting. Below is two screenshots from some stuff he's working on. Good stuff:
- Antoine Bandele (Director)
In other news I've got all the rough edits done for all the scenes we shot so far. I just got over an edit that has been bugging me and I've been avoiding since the second day of shooting. I've got something that's viewable but this particular scene will take me sometime to get down. I wanted it to play for only forty-five seconds or a minute but it has a two minute duration right now. Eek!
In other news. I've just got a Visual FX (Ricardo Elliott) guy on board to do some gunshots, bullet hole wounds and some color correcting. Below is two screenshots from some stuff he's working on. Good stuff:
- Antoine Bandele (Director)
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