Tron & Battlezone showreel animation

Just a quickie before I head off to the hospital as I really wanted to put this out there first. This will be part of my showreel at Men At Work Pictures after I get that website up and running.

The result of 6 months of rendering time alone, here is a short "showreel" type movie I put together. It has a few shots of Battlezone cabinet 3D model, and then switches to the glorious Tron cabinet 3D model. All set to music.

You will need some form of DivX codec to play the movie. You can download one for free from here http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/

ENJOY!

DOWNLOAD THE MOVIE HERE (140MB)

[update] The movie is also available on YouTube, but at MUCH lower quality. I highly suggest grabbing the larger version unless you're just looking for a quickie preview - My YouTube videos

Chasing Ghosts at the LA Film Festival

The LA Film Festival has just announced the films for this year's upcoming festival and Chasing Ghosts will be playing there! This is the film about the 80s arcade scene for which I provided some of my computer animation.

The site's announcement is a PDF document, but the announcement can be found in HTML format here:
http://www.collider.com/entertainment/
news/article.asp/aid/4335/tcid/1

I will be there. Make plans to attend if you can make it!

Return from Sundance

Well, I survived Sundance! I put up a scrapbook of sorts for pictures and other memoirs of the event.

Read the scrapbook

It was all pretty surreal for me, but it was worth it. I saw 2 showings of the film, including the Premiere. Both showings were with a full (real!) audience. Seeing my stuff up the Big Screen in glorious hi-def and a fantastic digital 5.1 audio mix was priceless. I'll definitely never forget it. I got to meet some of the stars of the film, and that was just plain cool. Walter Day was very kind to me and donated some official Twin Galaxies posters to me. He even autographed one of them for me! I also got to meet Ben Gold, Mark Robichek, and Sam Blackburn, 3 of the stars of the film. Totally cool. I spent a lot of time chatting with Sam. We seem to have some (geeky) things in common and it turns out he lives very close to me. We talked about maybe having a "Game Day" sometime.

So the movie hasn't found a distributor yet. I hope it gets picked up soon so everyone can see the film. It seemed the audiences very much enjoyed the film.

Sundance

I'm off to Sundance! I haven't mentioned it before in this blog, but I created some computer animated sequences for the indie film Chasing Ghosts, which was accepted into the Sundance 2007 Film Festival. I am traveling out to Park City Utah for a couple days for the premiere!