YouTube video leads to Hollywood contract
POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Sunday, January 3, 2010 14:12
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Anybody seen this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8417789.stm
Pretty good for a few hundred bucks.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Wow. That is a lot of bang for very little cash.
I have seen some excellent little character- and plot- driven films on youtube whose creators should be funded too, though.
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I find it hard to believe that was produced for just $300. That may be how much money he spent out of pocket to get other people to work with him, but it obviously does not include the cost of his camera and the computer which produced the special effects. Maybe $3000 is closer to the correct figure, but even that seems too low.
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Why the hell did I pay $$ to go see Cloverfield in the theatre again ? That 'clip' was awesome.
The T.Rex they call JANE!
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I find it hard to believe that was produced for just $300. That may be how much money he spent out of pocket to get other people to work with him, but it obviously does not include the cost of his camera and the computer which produced the special effects. Maybe $3000 is closer to the correct figure, but even that seems too low.
$10,000-20,000 computer and tech college.
100s or 1,000s hours of work.
Hollywood is outsourcing all animation to 3rd world slaves.
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It's an impressive demo piece. But I wonder about the wisdom of giving the guy a feature right off the bat. It's got great effects, but has little in the way of actual storytelling, real acting, or varried pacing. We don't need more Michael Bays.
Which isn't to say he doesn't have the chops - just that this doesn't prove that he can do much beyond cool FX.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I think it's guerilla marketing.
He already had a TV production company, with $20,000 to $50,000 in video and computer equipment.
http://www.aparato.tv/videos/cae457df160d8a65d31952cda4232257
Software alone is probably $5,000.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=822329&highlight=bi
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Quote:Impressive. Most inpressive.
Originally posted by Geezer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8417789.stm
The laughing Chrisisall
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