The Film is In the CAN - INTRO is finished

Hey guys,

Its been rolling at WARP speed here in the Rasch household.....

The Intro is officially done guys.....1 minute 30 seconds in 4 weeks...That is officially the end of the storyboarded film.

What a FEAT .......I have been working harder than ever to hit the finish line.

 It has been happening so fast and so seamless..... that It seems like...??
how could our film have taken this long to make??

almost 4 YEARS GUYS- .....my goodness...we did not expect that.  This film
was supposed to be much shorter than Gerald but .......

The complexity of the camera work- complexity of the story and amount of Compositing - effects- LIFE -job.....so on.....

  it just takes time....

so....

I did have a crazy dream or 2 during this focused last push. Animating whole shots in my sleep is not uncommon......and the worst was a dream where I removed  my eyelids....FREAKY DEAKY...but that says alot about the mind set...ha!!

Since we decided to puppeteer alot of the flying shots- here is a nice example of us putting the kids to work while capturing a fly through-


We have been having so much fun with all the puppeteering stuff.....its been lots of fun puzzles just like in stop mo. Its just totally hard not to smile when running these miniatures through their paces.

Here is B johnson from our Puppet ship session.

Here is one of the shots of flea with some ship malfunctions-


One of the biggest goals of the Intro is to GRAB the Audience right away and to be Exciting... I can  happily say It has delivered...We cant wait to share it with you guys.

So...

Moving into the Next phase of our film making is to assess the film in multiple Critics and plan on a few pick up shots for clarification of story points and emotional impact.

I plan on lots of FX and compositing work through out the film and lots of wire removal.  We also
have some TITLE Work to do and then prepping it for our composer to get cranking on the MUSIC.

So MUCH is still to come guys!!! Keep an eye out!!

here is a celebratory trick of the week-



          justin

Pup Pup and Away!!

Hey guys,

  My very last night of vacation and I finished another lovely shot for Shel and the edit tomorrow morning....ahhhhh so satisfying!!

Just to let you know- We are officially off the planet- - and we are in deep space!!!

Its been a nice vacation break from the day job but never quite feels like enough time off.....

............we have been doing a little sculpting....and painting
here is a pic of dober's wife and little one that dober keeps close for when hes out on a Space mission.

lots of rigging experiments-

We have been testing out the space flight puppet comp-


Its definitely going to work-and that is incredibly exciting to us both....it saves tons of time and head aches on our production and we get to have all sorts of new fun together in the making of it.....

We will be shooting the HI REZ actual film footage next weekend with the famous B johnson supervising with his awesome camera.

here is the original board from 3 years ago when we started this film-the ships first entrance-

here is our proof of concept-

Speaking of production- we really want to finish this puppy asap.....and are shooting for early march as the end of all Photography.....

Close!!!!

in fact.... we are so close that we have had our first  meeting with our composer. We actually have heard the first notes on the piano that will become the themes for this film and our key actors....

The music-scoring is my very favorite part of a films production so I am thrilled to bask in the musical awesomeness ahead.

As I return to the super busy work day....I hope to feed off the light at the end of this tunnel to keep us energized and bouncing toward that finish line....

keep sending good vibes guys- the finish is the hardest part.

 Trick of the week-I gots a new slight injury so I have had to take some time off the big stunts.

daddy daughter Christmas sleddinG


    jriggity