Okay, back into this. no interesting dreams lately but while my temp stuff is rendering I’ll give you the backstory and bring you up to date.

i work for a company that does video for concerts. we have worked with some pretty big names (none mentioned here) and have had good success. mostly, we’re still and up-and-comer. Over the past 3 years that I’ve been around we’ve been lacking in one area, post-production. Editing, motion graphix, 3d, etc. I always thought it would be valuable for us to get into that, some for my own job-sake, but mostly because we’d be the only company out there that does both video support for tours and pre-produced video to be played on the screens.

enter me.

we have a band, alias PIPE, who is our most visible client. Naturally, we want to impress that client with all that we can do and until now we haven’t had much of a chance. Now that we have post gear it’s up to my department, mostly just me, to come up with things to put on those screens for that band. As of this moment I’m working up storyboards –the most advanced storyboards thus far for productions like this — by taking the band’s existing artwork from their new album and making it move on screen.

That’s where the dreams come in. I’m full of ideas that haven’t had anywhere to go for quite a while until I saw the artwork and began to envision it as moving elements. My spare time, and working time, consists of dreaming up these visuals AND figuring out a way to make them happen.

I’m big into effects; miniatures, 3d, mattes, green screen…you name it. if there’s a book or website about it, I’ve read it or am currently doing so. I’m astounded by the possibilities of what we’re capable of if only given that chance.

So, in a short amount of time, we will hopefully be getting to work on some pretty astounding visuals that nobody has seen used this way. Our rag-tag team is pulling out every stop and dreaming big hoping that we’ll get the opportunity to do these scenes.

That explains the dreams and what I’m doing. Make sense? not yet, probably, but soon it will.

Today I painted a wall in our shop chroma-key green for use in some effects and am currently rendering out a few shots in 3DS MAX.

If PIPE isn’t astounded by what’s in front of them I’m going to try for a job at ILM.

More than anything I really like the idea of putting a team together that can concentrate on a vision and make it into reality. We’ve got some really talented people here that can make those images come to life.

’nuff for today…more work to do.
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