Which reminds me, if you're afraid of spoilers you should probably skip this blog. I won't lay out for you every detail of what happens in the movie, but it's hard to talk about making the movie without talking about the movie itself.
Today I finally got into really editing together the movie. I managed to assemble about 5 minutes of the film I think. I'm starting with the jungle stuff, partially because it's the most critical part of the film requiring a lot of effects work... and also because it's the most fun!
We're going to try to populate the "alien jungle" with a few shots of dinosaur-like creatures and alien critters... not so much because the movie REQUIRES it, but just to see if we can pull it off. You never really know how "do-able" something is until you try to do it. Our first pass at CGI people goes all the way back to Nightveil: WitchWar, which was rough, but technology has much improved since then. We kicked it up a notch with Stormy Tempest: Attack of the Giantess during her battle with the flying rocketmen which turned out pretty decent. So now we'll see if we can do a few critters. Don't expect Avatar or Jurassic Park here though folks. If it doesn't work out, they may not appear in the final version of the film at all.
So today I focused on scenes where CGI critters may appear. Once that's complete, I can start planning the effects... how long the dino should appear and what it should be doing. I'll probably do a few of them myself, but I also plan to recruit Bill Marimon for some assistance (he did most of the CGI rendering for Planet of the Damned). I haven't told him that yet though. :)
No idea what will happen this weekend as always. I'll try to keep the updates going and try to keep pushing the film forward, but who knows. Next on my editing plate is a brief laser fight between Stormy and an invisible ("cloaked") Clayton. This laser battle occurs shortly before the scene you see below. Poor Stormy...
Later,
John
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