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  • Last Chance playing at the Lake Arrowhead Film Festival April 22nd, at 1pm. 2010-03-15
  • Internet premiere of Last Chance is today or tomorrow! Sun is shining :) 2010-03-03
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Festivals! Yeah!!!

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

Last Chance the movie

Here is the online version of Last Chance. The High-Def version will be available at festivals and other screenings.

Vimeo Page:

Youtube Page:

Computerized paint strokes

Here’s some old R&D renders. This one shows an individual paint stroke. First flat, then displaced and finally with highlights. The idea was to have different paint pigments, some metallic etc. based on the actual “tube” they came from – but as usual, I didn’t have time for that.
The rendering doesn’t do paint mixing anyway so it wouldn’t have been worth it.

The last image shows the same stroke repeated – so it’s a little boring. What’s noteworthy is the curving of the strokes which gives some neat effects, especially on animated objects.

This image shows the preview options available when constructing the image. Points, lines, sprites and strokes. This helps in constructing the image – the density can be visualized with Points, the direction and lenght with Lines. Finally the Strokes show how the render will look – although without the canvas.

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

And we’re done

That’s it. All done. Last Chance was completed on Dec 22nd 2009. Haven’t been online much after that.
We’re submitting it to festivals now – so stay tuned for screening news. If the festivals don’t pick it up, then we’ll host it ourselves online. So either way – it’ll be screened soon.

From Smedlipotski on Flickr.

Last Chance - Trailer

Higher quality on Vimeo:

Tiki Gods, Martinis and finaled shots

Slight nod to the restoration of the Tiki hut at DD! Horay.
Starting work on the final shot of the movie today. It will also feature some Tiki heads… just need to figure out where to squeeze them in.
Been looking forward to this shot for a year now – it’s the second one I boarded so it feels special. We will follow the rebirth of “man” transforming into a whale. Meaning aside – lots of swirling colors, happy trippy stuff. Exactly what we like. It’s good to end on a happy note.

From Great Beyond on Flickr.