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SOS: Media – Week 10

By jedypod | June 10th, 2007
For the last 7 days, I have been working pretty constantly on the Trouble With Unicorns. On Thursday of last week, we shot the Meadow pixilation sequence, and on Monday, we shot more stills of our actor who plays Morgan, whose name is Venu Mattraw, walking through forest. We also shot the pixilation scene that [...]
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Production Stills – Makeup Tests

By jedypod | January 23rd, 2007
The following are some photographic images of the things we have been doing for the last few weeks. Last week, we did extensive motion and lighting tests with a large variety of different video cameras. Here, we see Brad poking a Fusebox, a small kid’s camera, which records in 320×240 highly compressed video onto internal [...]
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Makeup Tests

By jedypod | January 21st, 2007
Last weekend, we shot makeup tests with our actors, to get an idea of how the makeup would look under artificial lighting conditions and different colors of gels. These tests were also important to get an idea of how the more unpredictable of our cameras would perform with respect to the color temperature of the [...]
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Trouble With Unicorns Pixilation Shoot

By jedypod | November 25th, 2006
A Technical Description of the Workflow and Tools Used During the Chroma Key Trouble With Unicorns Introduction Shoot The Pixilation Shoot On Saturday 2006-11-04, the first shoot of the Trouble With Unicorns took place. This was for the opening sequence of the project, which is in a 2D-animation visual style. Instead of characters made of [...]
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