Has it been 3 years since I went into business for myself as a wedding videographer?
3 years ago this weekend this lovely couple responded to my ad for video services!. Not a company I worked for… but me myself and I?
This weekend, I shot another fabulous couple, Rosie and Joe L, at ” Our Lady of Guadalupe ” Catholic Church in downtown Austin!
Hands on text, ARTEX Alternative Finance, whiteboard animation
Made in FLASH, ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS and some ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.
I just got to see THIS on the big screen at the Alamo Village theater in Austin Texas:
Uhh No its not “my” film (don’t I wish). I had a very minor part on the crew, a volunteer boom mike operator. But it was time well spent to be a part of something THIS ambitious!
Theres some many dreamers and talkers who BS endlessly about what they’ll do “someday”. And theres people like Maya Glick who organized a Kickstarter campaign to get funding and found Zane Rutledge and Jeff Stolhand to get in there and make it happen!
And DID they make it happen! Amazing quality shooting and CGI effects! And Kick a– acting from Maya and the rest of the cast!
https://www.facebook.com/xstormfilm/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5730804/
The lovely Paulina got married to the handsome Danny Baker on April 16, 2016 at “The Vista on Seward Hill” in West Austin.
Shot with a Canon DSLR, a Canon Camcorder, 3 go pros and a Feiyu G4 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal . Edited in Adobe Premiere with some work done in Photoshop and After Effects.
A commercial for Artex Alternative Funding made in Painter, Photoshop and After Effects:
I made this in Flash and After Effects with some Photoshop work:
I shot these TV spots for Austin/Waco Texas lawyer Vic Feazell.
I used a Canon G20 camera and edited them in Adobe After Effects. I made the graphics in Adobe Photoshop.
I made this in Flash, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere.
Getting and sending physical Christmas cards have been a tradition for centuries (or…. maybe just one century!). It didn’t always have so much to do with emotions, family or religion. I think it was sometimes about networking- letting contacts, business acquaintances etc know your new address, reminding them that you’re still around…..
Physical Christmas cards have getting replaced by emails and myspace / facebook posts for almost a decade…..
No you can’t hang emails over your doorway……. but here I am folks! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is full of eye-popping effects, both practical and CG. And if you were paying attention, you may have noticed a bit of stop-motion animation thrown in there as well. After the jump, watch a video showing the Force Awakensstop-motion sequence came together under the guidance of VFX wizard Phil Tippett. (Minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens ahead.)
The Force Awakens stop-motion sequence comes as a little Easter egg for fans. When Finn is aboard the Millennium Falcon, he accidentally hits a button that turns on the Dejarik holochess board. He stares at it for a moment, attracting Chewbacca’s attention, before turning it off. The moment has no real impact on the plot; it’s really just there as a fun callback for fans of the original.
As teased way back in July, Adam Savage dropped by Tippett Studio to see Tippett and his team work on the stop-motion animation sequence. If you’re interested in Star Wars making-of lore, or just stop-motion animation in general, the video is worth a watch. Tippett and his team discuss the process of animating these little monsters, and also about Tippett’s work on the original film.
It’s interesting to see that J.J. Abrams’ preference for practical effects over CG ones for The Force Awakens extended even to the holochess set. It probably would’ve been simpler to recreate it in CG, but it wouldn’t have felt quite the same.
As Tippett explains in the video, bringing back the holochess set wasn’t as easy as dusting off the original models. “We got a call from [Lucasfilm president] Kathy Kennedy saying that they wanted to restore the original chess set from Star Wars, and the problem was that the characters that we had made, you know, close to 40 years ago, were in a horrible state of disintegration,” he said.
Though they knew exactly where the originals were — on a plaque presented to George Lucas — the figures were beyond repair. “They were made out of a rubber that disintegrates over time, and turns into like graham crackers,” said Tippett. So he and his team went into the archives and used photogrammetry to reconstruct the characters for 3D printing. The new figures are made of silicone, and should last longer than the old ones did.
Best of all, Tippett reveals that the holochess game as seen in The Force Awakens is actually a continuation of the holochess game from A New Hope. “We elected to pick up where we left off … and we just swapped out who wins this time,” said Tippett.
The Star Wars: The Force Awakens stop-motion sequence, along with the rest of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is in theaters now.
http://img.lum.dolimg.com/v1/images/image_bc196054.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1920%2C1080&width=768
https://mattkprovideo.com/2015/12/21/nancy-reed-comedian/
National touring act NANCY REED performs some Hillary Clinton jokes at BRAVE NEW BOOKS on Guadalupe Street in Austin Texas!
http://bravenewbookstore.myshopify.com/
It was part of the Alex Jones ” Make Fun of Hillary” Contest.
http://www.infowars.com/national-contest-to-stop-hillarys-attack-on-free-speech/
Shot with a Canon G20 and edited in Adobe Premiere.
mattkprovideo 
