I’m very excited to present the first test from “Outside In” that actually represents real footage in progress from the film. Camera moves are still being tweaked and this is cropped version as IMAX-sized stuff does not play well online. But thanks to the new version of Adobe After Effects, “Outside In” can made [...]
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It’s live and new to match the logo. New site coming next! The new series on “11 Reasons to Make an IMAX art film in your basement” starts soon. If you missed the “11 Reasons NOT to make an IMAX art film in your basement”, click here to start with #1. And, BTW, new look and logo. context is [...] #9 – #11: “Computers are Too Slow” Yep, I’m cheating. Cramming the last three reasons into one. But I have my reasons. As you’ve likely figured out, the “11 reasons not to make an IMAX art film in your basement” are basically just the list of challenges. In fact, they are almost just the [...] . The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. Pablo Picasso #8: “IMAX is not Art” This is actually the reason I kept raising after the “It’s impossible” line. IMAX films cost a lot of money, so it’s not the place to make a film just for the “art” of [...] Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics (1949) #7: “Too Much Data” If you recall from reason #5, “a 5.6k IMAX image at 32-bit color will contain 752,640,000 bits of data or nearly 1 Gb (gigabyte) for each frame.” In non-technobabble that means the finished film [...] Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu #6: “Space Cams are too small” So, this one does not sound nearly as dramatic as “It’s impossible!”. But actually, it’s a bigger deal. It seems like a great idea on paper to use the images from space missions to animate in [...] . There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large; but always something still smaller and something still larger. Anaxagoras #5: “It’s Huge!!!” So, after deciding I just might attempt the crazy, impossible, still impossible and downright foolish task of making an IMAX film, I had [...] . Who’s the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him? Obi-Wan Kenobi #4: “It’s Foolish” So, I did a semi-scientific test at a little after midnight last night that will probably get several painful punches in the arm from my good friends. My theory on April Fool’s [...] . The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles #3: “It’s Still Impossible” So, arrived the summer 2006 arrived and I pushed my brush with IMAX out of my mind. But, these things have a way of not going away. Within the space of a couple of [...] |
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