The Prototype Movie Trailer I did VFX on

I worked on this 16mm film shot in Italy and the US over the last 10 years. The film needed some updating on the technology and some shots had not been done so they were created digitally (the radiation suit walkign away from a crashed ship). I also color graded and did the graphics for the film trailer. My team did various shots, the opening 5 mile spaceship, the new alien background that had to be roto' ed and various subtle fixes to the piece or seamless effects. Over 22 shots were manipulated to bring a new sense fo urgency to "the prototype."

Online Interactive Comic Tools

There are a few cool new tools for kids and anyone who is interested in making animated comics. If anything it teaches someone to save often. These online flash based software tools are a little buggy but very cool, especially if you do not own all of the software to create your own. 

The first one SketchDog.com allows one to draw your own comics and email them. For younger kids there is the companion site - sketchpuppy.com . One can host and sign up for free. Make your own e-cards in fact. (www.sketchdog.com)

The other site perhaps a bit more robust especially with its behaviors that can be assigned to a character is Go Animate ( www.goanimate.com). They have a number of characters and templates you can use to create animated panels. The cool part is that you can click on the character and assign a behavior. One can also read your face into a character. This is the perfect tool for creating viral satire, web comics quickly.

This is the next phase in creating content interactively on the web powered by flash.