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Damn you jack bauer
Well I’m finishing up a music video directed by jack bauer himself for the 24 DVD and man I can’t wait for this SD nightmare to end!
2 commentsOut of the Fryingpan and Into the Fire!
So, it’s official I’m no longer a student, I graduated yesterday, partied with my friends and when right back to work today (back at zoic working on a cool new pilot!).
So Now All i have todo is move down to LA in the next….9 days any one have a couch? just kididng..kind of
Well i’ve got to get back to work so Just wanted to update you all, more tutorials to come, working on a new website, should be fun stuff!
-Zander
No commentsThe Page Hits the Stands!
So after months of waiting, the Creative Cow magazine article I co authored finally hit the proverbial stands today over at http://magazine.creativecow.net/ Look to download the PDF edition of the magazine. and Look on page 32 (of the print edition/and or actual magazine)
Here I discuss the project that I went over in the light-wrap tutorial red workflow, what it’s like going to film school etc.
Enjoy guys..I’m gonna go call my mom so she has some more bragging material.
-Zander
Editors notes
So after reading the article (yea…I hadn’t actually ever seen what was being published in my name… despite asking) it’s so clear how old some of this is. As is clear from the blog i’m a big nuke fan, in fact every shot was actually comped in nuke, 4 days after I wrote the bulk of what I sent Tim the articles editor, FXPHD started up as did my love for nuke, and I learned the ways of the compositor.
Lines like “but Keylight inside After Effects kills them all, especially in our shots with concrete dust flowing in front of the screen” make me laugh..while kinda true…the finesse work on many of these shots in primate was soo much better.
We never did shoot miniatures, the director kinda helped with that as did deadlines. Wish we had, would have been awesome..but after 3 months of asking for concept drawings for the hills we wanted to shoot..it never happened the result was what you see in the banner 
talks of red builds that are older than moses now..well thats just funny.
Background Me: New Nuke Gizmo
So I’ve been using a backdrop with a simple background set up for key tests etc for about 6 months that a friend showed me.
It Looked something like this:
As you can see it’s a bit well… cumbersome to make every time. SO today I decided to make a gizmo, both to practice doing it, and to save time.
So here’s what I created: Backgroundme Basically it has an input to pipe in any background you all ready have or want to use. As well as colorbars (pal and smpte) checkerboard, a constant that you can change the color of.
So with some help from my friend Michael (congrats on the new job btw) it has many configureation options.
Check it out
Recent Work May ‘08
So in the last week and a half, I’ve had 2 things I worked on go to air. the first is a Muisc video I worked on at Hydraulx By the R&B Super Star USHER. The Music video is for the song Moving Mountains, his second single of his new album. The entire thing was shot over the span of 4 days along with the first music video for this album Love in this Club. It’s all Green screen and great set design. A ton of roto and rig removal was needed though for shots in the rain where he’s climbing the mountain, and in the beginning when he’s walking through the burnt out club. I’m working on getting footage for my reel, so hopefully we can see some shots of that soon. I worked on the shots of Usher falling off the cliff, as well as a few of the mid shots when he’s on his knees on the top of the mountain. There are also about half a dozen of the club shots I either did work on, or as working on when they were finished by the lead compositor/editor on the smoke. Some of the shots got up to 80 masks when i was working on them for still objects alone. Detail in the rebar etc. This low quality flash video is all I can find for now.
The second Item is from a few shots I got called to work on over at ZOIC on the CBS show Criminal Minds. I have 4 shots in this sequence. Mainly the wide shots (perspective not from beneath) of the main actor (the officer) when He jumps the buildings. also the wider of the shots looking up when the bad guy (bald white guy) falls off the building. There was some hard core wire rig removal going on here, grips and cord wranglers as well as full on scaffold parts of the rig crossing buildings and sky etc.
Tabula Rasa highlights
Enjoy guys. I’m pretty excited about it all!
-Zander
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