Joomla! site syndication http://film-miniatures.com 2010-03-11T05:10:20+01:00 http://film-miniatures.com http://film-miniatures.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2009-12-01T10:57:31+01:00 http://film-miniatures.com http://film-miniatures.com/spotlight/tiny-submersible.html Shot: A 3D special-effects composite created for "Into The Abyss" (http://www.seachestbooks.com/) movie trailer, published by Sea Chest Books. Tools: 3DSMAX, Sound Forge, Sony Vegas. Turn-around: 1 week. A couple of afternoons to build the model, setup the animation, and test-render the volumetric lights. After client approval, another 10 hours to render the frames at high resolution on a single Pentium 4. Another couple of hours compositing a layer of camera flash (using Sony Vegas Pro) keying on the 3d volumetric lights, plus a layer of color shift to simulate deep diving. Finally, a simple sound effect by recording my PC fan tweaked in Sound Forge. Wella - another happy client! Just wish I had time to add some bubbles. text/html 2007-01-08T14:18:48+01:00 http://film-miniatures.com http://film-miniatures.com/spotlight/tq-written-for-film.html When a young extraterrestrial girl witnesses an evil race using humans for experiments, she takes the matter to her people who summon a mysterious vestige of time-traveling warriors. text/html 2006-02-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://film-miniatures.com http://film-miniatures.com/spotlight/flying-tigers-p-40-movie-prop-restoration-2.html The Flying Tigers won America's admiration because they were the men John Wayne pretended to be. They were outnumbered, and their supplies were inadequate. Their weapons were soon worn out, but the won anyway, and America loved them for it. Commissioned (workbench/flying-tigers-p-40-movie-prop.html) to restore the original 1/8th scale P-40 movie prop. This project has led me through the annals of history, where I have learned a lot more about the Curtiss P-40, and the sacrifices of brave men and women to preserve freedom. Not just freedom for Americans, but freedom for the Allies. text/html 2006-09-17T17:00:00+01:00 http://film-miniatures.com http://film-miniatures.com/spotlight/70s-style-spaceship-for-zombieduck-films.html (http://moonbabiesmusic.com)One fine afternoon sitting in my office listening to the monotonous staccato of rain beating on my desktop, and reading the name on the glass of my harvard door, rehctarcs pihsrats - suddenly the email rings! It is Shannon Henegan, an indie film-maker from Zombieduck Films, we're looking to replicate the look and feel of an early 70's Sci-fi B movie, she said. We need an original spaceship model approximately 15 inches in length. If you are familiar with John Carpenter's Dark Star, something similar to that spaceship is what we need. text/html 2007-04-18T11:11:24+01:00 http://film-miniatures.com http://film-miniatures.com/workbench/the-invaders-saucer.html Charles Walts commissioned me for the construction of a two-foot diameter replica of The Invaders Flying Saucer as seen in the 1967 TV series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061265/) created by Larry Cohen, staring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn-Martin Productions. I'm excited about this project, Charles has a real appreciation for the show, and it was a childhood inspiration.