Friday Video (and a plug)

Posted by Siamang on: 03.30.2007 /

Some folks here know about my day job, as an animator. Well, the most recent film I worked on comes out today. This is a short docu-trailer about the process of making a movie in 3D.

I hope you enjoy it. It’s playing in about 700 theaters in 3D, probably somewhere near you. It really is worth it to go out of your way to see it in 3D. I saw it for the first time in 3D last night, and I can assure you, there’s zero eyestrain with the new Disney Digital 3D.

-Siamang

12 Responses to "Friday Video (and a plug)"

  • Comment by: MTran

    1 03/30/07 12:22 PM | Comment Link |

    Utterly cool day job!

  • Comment by: Siamang

    2 03/30/07 2:24 PM | Comment Link |

    Thanks.

    I do want to make clear that I don’t get one thin dime more or less based on how this movie does in theaters. So I’m not plugging this for any personal gain. I’m just excited about it and wanted to share some of that excitement.

  • Comment by: Karen

    3 03/30/07 3:01 PM | Comment Link |

    Wow - it looks wonderful! Congratulations. :-)

  • Comment by: Marty

    4 03/30/07 3:55 PM | Comment Link |

    Siamang - this is great. Can you tell us more specifically about your role in it - i.e. when we go see it - what should we look for to see your work?

  • Comment by: Siamang

    5 03/30/07 5:27 PM | Comment Link |

    Rain, clouds, lightning… stuff like that.

    Everything that’s playing on a tv-screen or computer monitor.

    In the video above, our villian, the mysterious Bowler Hat Guy is using night-vision goggles. When he looks through it, it’s my design… designed to be both high tech and reminiscent of view-masters and old time radio dials. Our future is kind of a 1930’s vision of the future. So our technology is both high tech and kind of that golden age of optimism.

  • Comment by: Siamang

    6 03/30/07 5:33 PM | Comment Link |

    In that clip above, there’s also some of my clouds forming in a shot behind wilbur… a stormy cloud shot, reminiscent of Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments.

  • Comment by: Julie Marie

    7 03/31/07 4:07 PM | Comment Link |

    well, that was worth updating my flash player for…I haven’t been able to view you tubes for weeks and just haven’t had the proper motivation to fix things. So thanks! We’ll check the movie out.

  • Comment by: Jim Henderson

    8 04/2/07 12:37 AM | Comment Link |

    Siamang - which one is you?

    You really are a talented guy

  • Comment by: Siamang

    9 04/2/07 7:40 PM | Comment Link |

    Thanks.

    I’m not in the video. But two of my shots are.

  • Comment by: Jim Henderson

    10 04/2/07 11:24 PM | Comment Link |

    I figured if you were your face would have been blue dotted :-)

  • Comment by: Mike O

    11 04/5/07 7:01 AM | Comment Link |

    Sweet!!! It’s showing on a monster screen in a town nearby (the town I live in is too small). I’m going!!!

    So, how long does it take to do something like that? Like, the clouds … is there a “cloud routine” you run, or is it more like each sequence you do has to be created from scratch?

  • Comment by: Siamang

    12 04/6/07 9:07 PM | Comment Link |

    Well building the clouds for that sequence took a couple months. There are something like 12 shots of building clouds in that sequence, and they’re required to swirl around a giant glowing vortex.

    But it depends on the needs of the sequence. The sequence in the movie directly following that one has background clouds for about 15 shots, and that took about one hour, because the required cloud element was trivial to create.

    It’s not exactly “from scratch”, I’ve done clouds like this for other movies as well, and it’s a particular technique that I’ve worked up.