Category Archives: budget
Income approach
Movies are a collaborative art. Struggling for years to post a visual effects short solo made this crystal clear. Also, as a gregarious guy I like having comrades and co-conspirators. I don’t want to stare at screens alone – for … Continue reading
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Progress
Good lawd, what a ride. It’s November now and peddle to the metal. Today I am going to finish revisions on the team and tasks document. Roto artists are providing a constant flow of results. Money is definitely thinning out … Continue reading
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Tagged focus, hologram reshoot, joe, post, roto, storytelling
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Music to repair cars by
Ben Woody rocks. As a summer intern for Trickster Pictures, Ben rotoscoped for DOG with zen-like concentration and produced a slew of personal bliss projects for YouTube. Towards the end of July, he proposed making a time lapse of his … Continue reading
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Tagged After Effects, ais clamps, auto body, ben woody, camille frixen, chapel pond, dan kelly, danny fox, deer, fauxgrass, gopro, maple grove, paint, precision collision, reagan frixen, tim mckay, time lapse
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Fukushima in the USA
Arnie Gunderson – 23 plants in the USA identical to Fukushima, 2 near Chicago, Dresden and Quad City neither are on Lake Michigan
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, budget, plan, production and post, research, story
Tagged Arnie Gunderson, fukushima, nuclear power
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Cutting glass
Ben and I do DOG daily (have you met Ben Woody?) but my early evenings and weekends are dedicated to acquiring old Hobie 16s cheap – usually with soft decks and other structural issues. This is long range planning for … Continue reading
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Tagged ben woody, deck, fiberglass, hobie, hull, rotozip
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Snip snip here…
04/29 Wow! In assembling the definitive essentials, I am finding more bits of fat to trim away… incredible! Beyond essentials, if we do flashbacks perhaps Uncle Joe could be making Christina tea when she comes in with the PKD book. … Continue reading
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Tagged completion, contractor, DOG, edit, editorial, percentage, projection, roto, spreadsheet, svelte
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Today is the first day…
…of the rest of your life, Geritol. Use only as directed. Welcome back to the DOG progress report. Editorial on the first and second act is (dare I say it?) done. There are some weld edits which require a deeper … Continue reading
Go Go Go Again
Budgeting for the completion of DOG distills down to a simple formula… Tasks / Team = Duration Each task describes a specific change to some shot, a shot defined as the IN point to OUT point of any edit. A … Continue reading
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Tagged budget, calculation, guess, intern, interns, predict, productivity, projection, schedule, shot, task
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Roto ramping up
April 2, 2012 I’ve identified the Essential tasks and have assembled a core roto team – this week is the shakedown cruise. I’ve got two interns and two contractors and am interested to see how much progress we make this … Continue reading
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Tagged ae, After Effects, artist, clock, contractor, DOG, essentials, mask, nuke, rate, roto, task, vector, workflow
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What’s essential?
In theory, we could loose the intro to Joe, though that fucks up the ending with the surveillance of C and G, unless we introduce the interface on laptop with G, which has to stay anyway. Then the inference is … Continue reading
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Tagged calibrate, clock, code, director, essential, ftp, lingo, post, programming, pulling hair, roto, text, time, video
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Here we go again
That’s a delightfully ambigious post title for a critical topic – the schedule for completion. Am I reluctant to jinx myself with another prediction of imminent closure? Indeed I am! No more optimistic announcements, just the facts, ma’am. Last night … Continue reading
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Tagged ball park, budget, calculate, completion, cost estimate, data, estimate, expertise, guess, measure, prediction, productive, productivity, project, projection, rates, roto, schedule, scope of work, spreadsheet, time, VFX
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The aesthetic and what’s next?
So we’ve pre-released the sfx reel and shared a little history. Now what? There are 4 sheets of newsprint in the backroom covered with to dos, here’s the jist. Two archival and non trivial projects are in the queue for … Continue reading
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Tagged avenues, constant vigilance, good enough, kiss, perfection rejection, serving story
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17 months for 3 minutes
That’s how long it took to develop the (preview) of the motion graphics and special effects reel, from inception to launch. Let’s see… that’s 170 days per minute, 3 days per second or 2 hours and 15 minutes per frame. … Continue reading
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Tagged inception, launch, motion graphics
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R and D for Science Fiction Musical
Gosh, it’s nearly midnight, but I’ve gotta write a report on the recently initiated R and D for the Trickster Pictures project, Science Fiction Musical. James Weston and I are making narrative dance projects by recruiting talent from Mykl Werth’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Lake, dan kelly, erin louise hoagg, ice, james weston, panasonic hds-tm700, patrick kelly, tiffany ingalls, vixia hfs-10
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Visit On Desire
Last year my documentary about sailing around the Hawaiian Islands morphed into a documentary about sailing around Lake Michigan. In September of 2009 I soloed 300 miles on the 16 foor catamaran Hello World, searching for sustainable civilizations. The plan … Continue reading
Storycorps flash!
I had a flash today while listening to a Democracy Now report on http://storycorps.org, a huge oral history project catching the compelling eloquence of regular folks. That’s sort of what ALM is about too – finding extraordinary answers to global … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, animate, cell, clay, collage, enhanced b-roll, imagine, mind, oral history, theater, turbo b-roll, visual remix, visualize, xroll
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Personal finances and whuffie
An unproductive visit to the outhouse this morning as far as bowels were concerned, but the brain – oh the brain. I receive $2000 a month in investment income. The initial investment was actually emotional, but it’s since been converted … Continue reading
Glorious 8 Fold Protocol of Creation
Brooklyn, New York “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” Groucho Marx This is a long update. There aren’t any pictures. There are only a few funny parts. It’s primarily targeted at those of you who imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, Almonds, DOG, Fruit flies, G8FP, Groucho Marx, Kathleen, Morrie Warshawski, SATA, sprouted, Venus T5, VFX
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The Venus T5 and the currrent state of emergency
Brooklyn, New York I distracted myself this week by doing some cloning. I’ve been a chef de la saveur électronique for lo these last 25 years, generating a great feast of tasty data. With the exception of a stack of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Loeding, clone, cloning, data, Daughter of God, G-Tech, Pontiac, Venus T5, zombie geeks
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Killing babies or the holographic DOG
Brooklyn, New York Are we there yet? This week I’m liquidating gear for cash. I’ve got about 12 terrabytes of projects stored on 500 gb and 1000 gb hard drives. The idea is to buy new drives with credit cards, … Continue reading
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Tagged credit cards, edit, exposition, film festival, holographic approach, HVX-200, killing babies, liquidating, moore's law, Trainspotting
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What’s the plan? Guess!
Brooklyn, New York When last we tangled with the narrative of self proclaimed film maker Dan Kelly, he had reached a terrible realization. Based on the most recent completion estimate, the project DOG is far from wrapping up, au contraire. … Continue reading
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Tagged cash advance, cheap, collaborators, continuity from hell, credit cards, Daughter of God, fast, festival worthy, fundraising, good, mastercard, miracle, mis-matched shots, resources, talent, Trevor Macdermid, visa, we there yet, wild light, wild sound
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Revised completion estimate and the release of the Book of DOG
Brooklyn, New York Today is the day of reckoning, where I reckon just how much trouble I am really in. 2008 is coming to an end and Dan Kelly is committed to fully engage all control surfaces until the mission … Continue reading
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Tagged After Effects, airship, back story, boxes, Daughter of God, design reference, fanatical monk, handle in post, mocha, motion graphics, paradox, premise, props, recruit artists, reflection, rotoscope, slowing down time, visual elements, we there yet
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Password protected update is made available to a few more members of the tribe
Brooklyn, New York Greetings friends, It’s been 3 months since I started these updates, and I’m ready to expand the audience a bit. For those of you who are connecting to the updates for the first time – welcome! Please … Continue reading
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Tagged Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques, Alan Watts, happening scene, holy boners, marketing scheme, mining, monoblog, mortal machine, Pete O'Connell, revenue stream, rotoscope, supra genius, toxic consumer culture, transcendental meme
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297 hours on the motion graphic to do list
Brooklyn, New York Hello friends, Mid August and time for an inventory of the motion graphics tasks, though with surprises around every corner there’s really no way to compile a comprehensive list. At least I can document what’s obvious, estimate … Continue reading
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