Looking at the Reality

Well, today I made my website, and finished all my blog sites for my Thesis Project- Living and Active.  I have already started doing VFX research months ago.  I had planned out my website in October or November of 2008.  I didn't know what I was going to do it on, but I knew that presentation is key and this was how I wanted to present my work.  

In the December episode of Creative Cow's magazine I read a great article called Fix it in Pre:

(click here to go to the article)

This is a great article on pre-planning your production process and what I loved about it was what they accomplished with a limited shooting schedule, limited talent resources, limited VFX shots and limited post time.  Basically everything I have to contend with in creating my Thesis Film.  But they wanted high quality.  That along with the experience I gained my first semester at CADA-NYU in trying to do too much with too little time and resources.  I came to the conviction to limit the time of my short to :30 to :60 seconds.  Use one location and make the VFX shots I have dynamic, powerful and few.  

Over the Semester break I hope to complete 3 versions of my script.  I have one so far.  I also hope to go through 7 Gnomon Workshops on Digital Sets, Compositing and Dynamics and Particles.  Plus other Lightwave DVDs on Lightwave, LWCAD, Set Extensions, Technical Direction and Vue 6.

Last week I watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow again.   This film was a major inspiration to me in regards to the possibilities for 3D.  I also watched the making of and the Director commentaries.  they basically shot the film 3 times before they went into production.  A lot of the VFX work they did for the look they wanted.  I realize I don't have to go that far.  I want a more realistic look, not that stylized.  But it was great to watch.

Now that  I have begun and as I have started m research looking at the biblical stories I would like to visually bring the life, the first on I have looked at is Jesus feeding the 5,000.  My script would require multiple duplications of extras on green screen to make a hillside populated with about 5,000 men and 3-4,000 women and children.  I am realizing that this would be amazingly grand, but perhaps too much. I'd either need Massize or have to populate with a program like Vue and use Poser animations in the far background.  Tomorrow in my Biblical studies I will look at Jesus teaching the unknown number of people at the Sea of Galilee.