Starfucker Music Video - Bury Us Alive

I helped my friend Josh Cox with a shot or two on his debut music video.  The song is called "Bury Us Alive" by STRFKR.  Thiago Costa did the massive particle simulations at the end.

Save your Valentines Day with a Romantic French Film

Ok, Valentines Day was yesterday and maybe you blew it.  Maybe you bought her chocolates and ate all of them, or maybe you jusrt picked the neighbors flowers before walking in the door.  Either way, this will save you.  Get this movie Priceless and watch it with your girl friend. She'll love you for it. 

1. She'll be impressed becasue it's a French film.  
2. Chicks get hot when reading sub-titles.  I swear, It's true.  I read it somewhere.
3. It's really a good movie.  Funny and charming.
4. The actress (AudreyTautou) in it is Hot as hell!  She playes Amelie in Jean Pierre Jeunet's Amelie . (Which is one of the best films of all time.) So you'll enjoy it too.

Good luck, hope you score one for me.

Walking Dead - VFX Article

 A bunch of us get together every Thursday to have a few cocktails and watch AMC's "Walking Dead".  I just saw this article on the visual effects of that show and wanted to share it with everyone. 

http://www.fxguide.com/article660.html

Watch it on demand from Amazon. Walking Dead - Season 1

The Making of "Monsters"

I listened to an FX Guide podcast last week on the making of  Monsters. (Listen to it here) A technical director, (Gareth Edwards) got a chance to make his own independent monster movie on the cheap.  If your anything like me, hearing about a technical director that gets to make is own movie probably gets you pretty excited.

MONSTERS - A crashed space probe over Mexico changes life as we know it when giant aliens begin to appear. A couple must travel through the dangerous infected zone to get back to the US in this stunning sci-fi epic.

He apparently shot it in Mexico over 6 weeks and did all the effects himself over 5 months.  He used 3ds max for his creatures and said that only 3 shots were 3d tracked.  Everything was 2d tracked with Mocca.

He said something like 'Most movies paint a target on the wall and after production, they hope that the arrow hits that target.  We shot the movie with the ending in mind, but we let the shooting wander. We shot the arrow first, then painted the target around it during editing.'

What's also cool is that you could get it before it was even out in the theaters.  Check it out, even just to see how much effects one man can do over 5 months.  It's available at Amazon.com Here

Listen to the podcast, then watch the movie.  In my opinion it wasn't bad at all. Then again, I listened to the podcast, and maybe I am biased to the TD making a good movie.

Just Saw Kick Ass

Todays 3 sentence movie review... Kick Ass! 

Oh yeah!  I just watched Kick-As slast night on Blu-Ray and It was freaking awesome. FUN as hell.  Very unexpected and absolutely awesome. I purposely tried not to hear anything about this movie when it came out and I'm glad I did. 

(Hard to believe that it's only $12.99 for Blu-Ray at Amazon! Click here) Got to be one of the best movies I've seen this year. It was great!