Tag Archives: After Effects

Music to repair cars by

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dan from holyboners.com

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 →

Posted in budget, hardware, people, plan, real life, research, software, story, technique, time | 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 | Leave a comment

Roto ramping up

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Dan from holyboners.com

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 →

Posted in budget, Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, software, technique, time, workflow | Tagged ae, After Effects, artist, clock, contractor, DOG, essentials, mask, nuke, rate, roto, task, vector, workflow | Leave a comment

Climate Change and digressions

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Dan from holyboners.com

Premise Climbing high above a menacing mega-weather system, the VIP passengers aboard the Execu-jet attempt an escape to gentler climes, anticipating warm backrubs and frosty cocktails. Hubris! Even the mighty kerosene sucking turbo engines cannot forever loft such a heavy … Continue reading →

Posted in production and post, projects, real life, research, SFX reel, software, story, technique, time, workflow | Tagged activist arrogance, ae, After Effects, boondoggle, california, cherry capital, climate change, container ship, convenience, environment, environmental debt, excess, genarts, global life support, hollywood, jamaica lynn weston, james weston lynn, james weston schaberg, Jeff Gibbs, jet, jet flight, Jonathan Kelly, landing gear, life support system, lightning, local growers, patrick kelly, privilege, right livelihood, roto, sapphire plugin, stabilized, stabilized footage, strobe flash | 1 Comment

Dream team

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Dan from holyboners.com

The primary lesson I learned making Daughter of God or DOG is this – finishing a movie by yourself takes forever. To complete DOG and support ALM this year, I’ve assembled a team of two knob spinning freelancers and five … Continue reading →

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Xroll

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Dan from holyboners.com

What does memory look like? What do thoughts look like? What is the magic ingredient that makes reality real? I dunno. Let’s make some language. We’ve already got B roll, an antiquated term for supplementary footage used to cover audio … Continue reading →

Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life, software, story, technique | Tagged After Effects, b roll, director, experimental, expressions, javascript, lingo, open source, rotoscope, rotoscoping, turbo, xroll | Leave a comment

Desire and Faisal in the house

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Beulah, Michigan In December of last year I heard from Kai, captain of the 26′ Sloop Desire. He was planning to set her up for future adventures starting with a shakedown cruise in the Hawaiian Islands, and did I want … Continue reading →

Posted in Around Lake Michigan, budget, Daughter of God, people, real life, software, story, time, workflow | Tagged After Effects, Daughter of God, Desire sloop, Dirk Schwarz, edit, Faisal Azam, holy boners, Jonathan Kelly, Kai Schwarz, Manhattan Bridge, Metamorphosis, solo sail, space travel, VFX | Leave a comment

Revised completion estimate and the release of the Book of DOG

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

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 →

Posted in budget, Daughter of God, people, real life, software, story, time, workflow | 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 | Leave a comment

Are we there yet? Roto upgrade, tracking, abandoned highway and the Obamas

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Brooklyn, New York Hey there! Three weeks just flew by, phew. Since we last communed, I spent a week trying to accelerate my rotoscoping execution with the help of Pete O’Connell. His method is to track the elements and then … Continue reading →

Posted in Daughter of God, people, real life, software, story, technique, workflow | Tagged 3D model, abandoned highway, After Effects, cars, cruise ship, EMP, highway, Honda Odyssey, Jonathan Kelly, making nets appear, Obama, Pete O'Connell, point tracker, reflection, rotoscope, tree, we there yet | Leave a comment

Bricks, a cruise ship and the San Juan River in Utah

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Brooklyn, New York It’s been a little over a month since my last update. After returning from Wyoming and setting up at the Artist house on Crystal Lake, I cranked out a solid week of roto work, focusing on – … Continue reading →

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Climbing into the forest fire after the cowboy wedding in Wyoming

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Beulah, Michigan It’s been about a month since I last touched After Effects. The week following the 8/15 update went into packing and making the Brooklyn apartment fit for sub letters. I then drove 15 hours to northern Michigan, dropped … Continue reading →

Posted in Daughter of God, people, real life, software | Tagged After Effects, ascend, Betsie River, Brooklyn, bushwhack, Darcie, Dave Crowley, descend, forest fire, Jackson Hole, Jonathan Kelly, mountain, Snake Lake, sublet, Wyoming | Leave a comment

297 hours on the motion graphic to do list

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

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 →

Posted in budget, Daughter of God, people, real life, software, workflow | Tagged 0% APR, After Effects, Automatic Duck, Brad Robinson, color correction, continuity, DV Rebel Guide, Final Cut Pro, friends, holy boners, learning curve, lighting, mistakes, motion graphics, order of operations, river trip, rotoscope, shooting, Stu, VFX, wedding, workflow | Leave a comment

Goodbye Final Cut Pro and hello After Effects, tuning new gear for color accuracy

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Brooklyn, New York I’ve started translating DOG from FCP to AE. I’ve found a free script to do this, which saved me from having to spend $500 bucks on Automatic Duck. Much as I would like to own AD, I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Daughter of God, hardware, software, workflow | Tagged After Effects, apocalypse, Automatic Duck, color correction, Color Temperature Orange, cruise ship, CTO, empire state building, Final Cut Pro, ND, neutral density filter, order of operations, over-expose, rotoscope, rotoscoping, slowing down time | Leave a comment

Color correction and a frothy soup

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Brooklyn, New York It’s actually 7/23 today, but I want to make a entry for 7/22, so here it is. I got up and jumped into re-calibrating the Matrox MXO so I could count on the color. As a bonus, … Continue reading →

Posted in Daughter of God, hardware, software, technique, workflow | Tagged 3D model, After Effects, DV Rebel Guide, DVCPRO HD, Final Cut Pro, foley, HVX-200, Jonathan Kelly, JVC field monitor, NTSC, offline, online, picture lock, sound lock, VFX | Leave a comment

The rotoscoping adventure begins, what is rotoscoping anyway?

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Dan from dogthemovie.com

Brooklyn, New York Ok so this week I’m diving into rotoscoping. That means isolating moving things from the background so that they can be independently manipulated. It’s the red hallway effort, that is changing the lights in the hall between … Continue reading →

Posted in Daughter of God | Tagged After Effects, Apple Cinema Display, buddhism, color correction, Colorista, Daughter of God, DV Rebel Guide, Final Cut Pro, Matrox MXO, Naomi Klein, Philip K Dick, red (color), rotoscope, wombs | Leave a comment