Mike King

Interview: Doeri Welch-Greiner on Glago’s Guest

Here’s a link to an interview with Dori Welch-Greiner, our associate producer on Glago’s Guest.

Click here.

Glago’s Guest

animatic test

I’m trying to get focused and get serious about working on a short film. As usual, I’m getting a little ahead of myself and testing out my animatic workflow before I’ve really got a story nailed down. This small test was done with Photoshop and Apple Motion. Looks like I’ll be able to do some interesting stuff without resorting to After Effects or Shake, which would require more money.I’ve got a couple of ideas for the short, which I think I want to keep to under 2 minutes so that it’s feasible to do in a shorter amount of time. The ideas are not much more than premises or set ups at this time. I really need to flesh out the characters and figure out how to make them compelling in very little screen time. Once I get the idea worked out, then I’ll start trying to get some people interested in helping. flyover animaticAdd to My Profile | More Videos  

Get out while you can!

Read this article from Variety about the increasing pressure VFX studios and artists face as schedules and budgets shrink while expectations rise.

An interesting CG post

I had a chance to skim through Keith Lango’s blog post while waiting for renders this morning. In it he asks the rhetorical question,”…how can we bring more of an integrated sense of artistry into the CG film production system?”

He’s got some interesting points, though one could argue that a lot of the principles are in place in one form or another in the pipelines of most major studios. The technology involved is mostly straightforward stuff. I kind of wish he provided more insight towards changing how people think about the process of CG filmmaking. He says:

Pipelines are fixed on paper first, in how you think about and organize your task and approval systems. It’s more about the bigger picture and less about what tool you develop… How you think about your primary goal in the system determines much about how you build that system.

Me, I think that’s the hard part.

Online hit ‘Broken Saints’ joins DVD canon

cnet.com has a story here about Broken Saints getting a DVD distribution deal with Twentieth Century Fox. Broken Saints is an online graphic novel that caused some serious waves on the Internet during its 3 year run.

I’ve watched some of the trailers, and the story/art isn’t my cup of tea. But I am impressed that they managed to create and execute an idea that so many viewers found compelling.

Now if I could just get off my butt and work on my own project some more. This kind of news always inspires me and depresses me. It inspires me to see that someone pulled off something cool. And depresses me because I can’t seem to bring any of my own projects to completion.

Anyway, here is a link to the Broken Saints official site.

Lucy Daughter of the Devil

My friends over at Fluid got a greenlight for 10 episodes of their Adult Swim show called Lucy Daughter of the Devil. Congrats guys. The pilot episode seems to be available here on youtube.com.

changes at Disney

Our animation union has a blog (who knew?) and it looks like they had the scoop on what’s going on at Disney before we did. Check out their blog entry for full details. But for me it boils down to: Layoffs at Circle 7.

Toy Story 3 not at Circle Seven

Well, Toy Story 3 will not be made at Circle Seven. Yikes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060126/media_nm/media_disney_toystory_dc

It’s official!

Disney is going to buy Pixar. I don’t know what this will mean for those of us on Toy Story 3. The suspense grows.

Here’s the official press release.