Fly test

This isn't necessarily the final incarnation of The Fly.

Fly on the Wall - Animatic

Now begins the tedious yet rewarding process of doing an animatic. This 3 second clip, the first shot of the film, gives a better idea of what the actual shot will look like. I'll post animatics here and there but I won't post an animatic of the whole film since I do want it to be somewhat of a surprise.

That's all folks!

This is it, a little cliffhanger if you will. I've finished the rest of the storyboards and have begun work on an animatic because a) animatics are cool and b) animatics are also a useful tool that allows a director to give actors, investors, and everyone else including the director (that's me!) a better idea of what the finished film will look like when it's cut together. I might post a clip from it, but honestly, I want keep this film to be somewhat of a surprise.

And still more

"Waiter, there's a fly in my blog!" Well, there's more where that came from. LOTS more.

More storyboards from "Fly on the Wall"

Even more

More "Fly on the Wall" Stuff

"Fly on the Wall"

My next short film will in fact be "Fly on the Wall," a surreal, absurdist spy drama set during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is one of the storyboards, which I hand colored using a seperate sheet of vellum and then layered underneath the original drawing in Photoshop. It's not much, but it was a good learning experience and I think I can achieve a better effect hand coloring with markers or paint and then using Photoshop to tweak it when necessary.

Here's the star of the film:
Anyway, I'll keep posting storyboards and stuff as I go along.