RENDEZVOUR WITH RAMA - INTERIOR DETAIL

Rendezvous with Rama interior detail.

A BLAKE'S 7 REMAKE FINALLY GOING TO HAPPEN?

This is very exciting if it actually happens. Ive been a fan for a long time and always felt that you could redo it and cut certain bits out to make it much better.

Deadline have news of the latest attempt.

INTERIOR OF RAMA

This is my go at the inside...every filmmaker / animator who takes on Rama has to face the inside sooner or later...it's a wonderful challenge...and, I love looking at all the different ones that have been made by other people so far too.

TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMjsmm-qDw&feature=plcp

Here is a new trailer.

As you can see I'm continuing on with my Rama movie...I've spent time on my fathers Korg again to try and do a better job of the soundtrack.

WITH SOME COLOUR CORRECTION

THE NEW FRONT OF ENDEAVOUR

Here it is.

MORE WORK ON ENDEAVOR

I'm having to do more design work and adding to Endeavour right now...this is usually how things go though...very slow and very plodding...you could spend one month on Endeavour alone...but I want to push forward and get to do the insides of Rama too.

I'm wanting a shot of the astronaunts leaving Endeavour out of a door.

I'll upload a image today of the new bit I've added.

Theres still the interiour of Endeavour to do too...and the space suits...

SOUND ADDED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW24PEp0z_8&feature=plcp

Here it is with some experimental sound.

Taking on Rendezvous with Rama

http://youtu.be/oiEFcJkXxV8

I'm busy at the moment doing a attempt at Rendezvous with Rama...it felt like the right thing to do and so that's where I am at the moment.

KING KONG VS GODZILLA (USA VERSION)

The thing about this one is....I thought it was great!...it's tremendously funny and fun....it moves along at a good speed...ok occasionally it has some scenes that go on way too long.....but I feel If you look past those scenes it's really well directed with it's structure and pacing. If a single word had to be used to decribe it...it would be Fun.

TEST

Difficult to get to by ~Michael-J-Dowswell on deviantART

NEW VERSIONS OF THE BORROWERS

so at christmas...during the christmas and new year season....i noticed that there was a Borrowers film being shown on BBC 1 or 2.....well actually i heard about it in a email.....and then i got really confused wondering if it was the animated one...

....but it was a British production with Christopher Eccelston as Pod (90 minutes)

I watched it and it was actually really not so bad....what was initially striking was that Pod and family in this version are not like the original at all...the style or vibe has been tinkered with so that the characters come out quite different (that's going to upset some borrowers fans and when we showed it to my mother (a big borrowers fan of the books) she was not so keen and didn;t like how different it was)...but it has a nice funess to it...and the music throughout is really nice.

There is another Borrowers been made too by the much famous (and impeccable record) Studio Ghibli called The Secret World of Arrietty.

PERI URBAN AND THE FOX

I recently started watching videos again on youtube...I was part of the whole youtube thing back in 2005...you know the whole scenario of when each one of us finally got broadband? and then well, it was this big fun new thing...you could finally watch video on the internet...that was a big leap....and all these cool people were appearing on youtube...it was quite something at the time...and still is.

Here Peri Urban has a encounter with a fox...his new camera captures it beautifully in 720p. He's great at commentary on his videos and they are always interesting to watch.

TERRORE NELLO SPAZIO (1965)

This one took me by surprise...I found it by accident one day on youtube. The film seems to be widely known as Planet of the Vampires.

I can only describe what I saw as being Forbidden Planet in feeling (at times)...and also feelings of it being a lot like Alien / The Thing. Alien of course arrived in 1979.

It's a very inspiring movie for me because of what was achieved with what they had...but also the camerawork and editing are first rate. It really is one of those ones where you go "if they could do it then I could too"...my camerawork and editing are my strongest things too.

So give it a whirl here if you want to see if it has something for you...or if quality is a problem for you...you might want to watch this to get a feel / vibe and then hire the movie.

PRICE INCREASES?

Well that Playstation 3 there just went up...straight back to £229.99 again....arg, I kinda wish I'd bought one now...but I don't know, I think that when The Last Guardian arrives...that will be the time where I really have a large incentive to get one...that game is probably going to be incredible....by the time that happens the price will be down again hopefully.

PRICE DROPS?

Things do seem to be changing. I noticed the other day that Harry Potter 7 part 1 arrived on it's release day (on standard definition DVD - Digital Versatile Disc) at a price of 6.99 or 7 pounds...this is definitely the start of a huge shift (or my first awareness of a shift) in prices for SD DVD...I also spotted some Blu-Ray discs for 5 pounds bran new (not new releases (they cost about 14.99) but old films on new discs)

Playstation 3's have also dropped in price...they're down to £199 bran new...I'm waiting for a game called The Last Guardian...but am excited about the price drop.

I currently am still buying second hand VHS films for 20 pence...and I actually really enjoy watching these on my little cathode ray tube...the quality is actually very, very good (when it's working well...which is 95% of the time)

ERRANS ALBA TRAILER 1 IN GLORIOUS 720p

The new 720p trailer for Errans Alba...that is of course 1280 pixels by 544 pixels. All of it is made inside Cinema 4D 7.

WHILE THEY SLEPT TRANSPORT GETS MORE DETAIL

I'm actually not sure if i ever posted this or not...but i kept adding detail to it. here it is.

KOALA ONE MIGHT BE FINISHED?

It does feel like i have to stop on it now.

MORE DETAIL TO KOALA ONE

bit more added now...it needed it.

KOALA ONE MAKES IT INTO SKIRMISH AT HARTATHRA

I've now given the film a name....and you can now also see a new sequence on the end here...koala one can be seen.

KOALA ONE GETS SOME MORE CURVES

It was decided that it looked ok, but I needed to tweak some more to get it to look more space shippy....it was important that 1) It look like a Koala (but that it didn't look too much like a koala) 2) It looked like a cool space ship.

KOALA ONE

Here we go.

THE START SEQUENCE OF MY UNTITLED ANIMATION IN 720p HD

Finally managed to redo all the work that was lost...I really wanted this in HD and now I finally do. I've added a shot and also been frustrated at not getting it quite the same as the orriginal...

I CANT AFFORD TO USE THE MUSIC I WANT TO USE ANYMORE

You will only hear music originally composed by myself on everything that is posted from now on (unless I become a professional filmmaker and start to make proper films allowing me to choose what I want)

I will be using the Micro Korg (well it's allready begun as you can see below here in previous posts) the synth sound I've always loved and would even if I became a professional would hunt down certain synth people (who are very simalar to wendy carlos) and get some of their stuff....it's all money though, so ive got to move into a new arena and do my own soundtracks.

It costs too much money to do it any other way...while I’m not really happy about it... I do find that everything in life has two sides...it is a LOT of fun to work away on the Korg doing both music and sound effects...but at the same time I would rather have classical music that I could choose....it’s just not possible though!...this industry is extremely hard and also completely crazy...but I keep on going because doing this is my lifeblood.