IRTTA: now on dvd!

Thats right people! The 2006 48hours furious filmmaking dvd is out, and you can catch our short, It Returned to the Abyss on it amongst a ton of others!. The DVD is available in all good places that sell dvds, like Real Groovy and the great Welly video rental joint: Aro Video.

Heres the blurb from the 48 Hours website:

The much anticipated 2006 48HOURS DVD is finally here. Packed with more features than a James Cameron special edition, this 3-Disc set is sure be a hot seller. With over ten hours of footage, your brain may just melt from the enormity of it all. Grab one and see why the 48HOURS has become New Zealand's biggest and brightest film competition.

brothers mogg on myspace

The brothers mogg now have a film profile on myspace. Check it out here:

http://www.myspace.com/brothersmogg

Old school attack! - Dickies.

I've uploaded another old movie to Google Video.

Dickies is a short film created back in 1998 as a design school project integrating live action, stop motion animation and music!
The story is very simple - two young chaps are sitting around at home and decide to have a jam while the parents are away. Unwittingly, they awake something that was living in the garage! Fired up in the heat and aggression of the music, they run out to confront the beast.

The more observant viewers or readers out there might notice that Dickies was shot and presented in the spectacularly awesome cinematic format of low-res black and white!
This is because way back in the "old days" (which sounds quite funny as it was only 8 years ago) I had the restriction of not having access to the expensive high-end computer gear required to attempt this sort of thing at broadcast quality. (i was a poor student studying at the end of the 90's afterall) However when i watch it, i really don't cringe, i think it still looks kinda cool, and still plays well.

It was shot on a standard issue Sony Video 8 handycam and digitized into Adobe Premiere via the built-in AV video card on my 132mhz Power Mac 8500 with a ground shaking 32megs of ram (which i later upgraded to 90mb... woot!) ...it was the most powerful computer i could afford!

Clay animation was done by Phil in a makeshift mini greenscreen stage that we setup in our lounge at home. (yes we had tolerant parents) And the shots were puesdo-matchmoved and the monster added using After Effects version i can not remember. At the end of the day we thought it was a fun little flick.

Saving the Children

Well thats us, doing our bit.

Last week Phil and i decided to start being all generous and donating to Save the Children with their "I Care" programme. Feels pretty good. You should too!

I think thats one thing i would do if i was really really rich. Just for amusement i would buy a brand spanking new porsche 911 and will ship it to Latin America to give to a community of disadvantaged children. Okay, so a high performance german sportscar probably wouldnt help them much but hey! they could always sell it (after someone takes the kiddies for a little blitz in it, of course) and the proceeds could probably feed them for the rest of their lives, maybe.

In anycase, make no mistake - when you donate and KNOW its being given to a worthy cause, what you lose from the wallet you more than make up for in the heart.

Links:

Save the Children