IDAE Ep. 2

Wes is at it again with this great new entry in his series I Dream About Earth. Look out for more to come! Enjoy!!

- Ben

R.I.P. Grandpa

TO DO

THESIS TO DO LIST

- Idea
- Script
- Character Designs
•Old Man
•Tyk
- Character Turn Arounds
•Old Man
•Tyk
- Emotion Sheets
•Old Man
•Tyk
- Temple Layout
- Statues Layout
- Mountain Layout
- Deer Creature Layout
- Music
- Sound
- Story Board
- Animatic
• Timing Out
- Polish Everything up
- Finalize
- Animate
- Figure out Installation
• Framing pictures
• Set up
• Items needed
• Install
- Suit up
- Present

Epic Ferris

A few weeks ago at MIAD, we were assigned a found footage project in my Post Production elective which turned out to be this at first. We all brought in 2-3 movies each and Ferris Bueller was voted to edit. My teacher then made digital copies of the movie and gave them to us all. We were told to make pseudo trailer for the movie that makes it seem like something else or and experimental film with the shots. Idea's were tossed around such as making Ferris and Cameron seem more than friends, Cameron's Day Off and if Ferris and Sloan were figments of Cameron's imagination. This is what I came up with the first time around:



As you can see I tried to be a bit more experimental with this version, trying to make seem as though Ferris is on the run and the genre would be action/suspense. I accidentally did the first skip on the audio when I was editing. I thought, "Whoa! That was kind of cool!" So, I decided to play around with this thinking it was pretty neat. During critique people thought it was a bit jarring at first because it didn't have a visual to accompany the skip and my teacher hated how it ended with the shot of Grace. So I decided to tackle it again. Coming up with this more serious version:

Epic Ferris from Benjamin McNulty on Vimeo.

Obviously, the later is the stronger of the two. I do see this and glad I decided to take another swing at it. I'm fairly happy with the result and just thought the first video was worth a mention because of how abstract I was thinking. It's kind of neat how the idea shifted as time went on and show's a good progression of this project.
Have a nice day!

-Ben

I Dream About The Earth Ep. 1

I helped a friend make this video, I find it hilarious and he did a great job editing it all together. Enjoy.

-Ben

Some Indians and Pilgrams Eat a Turkey

Jeez... These last few weeks have definitely made me neglect my blog. I was wrapping up my finals and couldn't really doodle in my spare time.

Anyway!

Enjoy this awesome product that me and my classmates worked on for this semester in Sam Drakes Production Studio Class of 2012. We went through it all. Thought of ideas, chose an idea, wrote the script, did character and background designs, got some sound, did story boards, timed everything out within an animatic and then animated what we could. I'm not sure if we will come back to this but I wouldn't mind. It was fun!

-Ben

Summer Fun

Now that the hectic finals are over, I can finally get back to updating this thing of a regular basis. I have a few ideas/projects for myself over the summer. Let's see where these ideas take me.

-Ben