Three Pixel Productions

Welding and Tweaking and Updating the Site

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:04:12 +0000

If you didn’t already see, we’re changing some things around here. Hoping to make things more, straightforward layout wise and easier to find. Also a new clean look isn’t a terrible thing.

Been working on a project a little bit here and there. It’s in some really early stages, but I’m hoping to do a few Splitting Pixels episodes as I’m starting to work it all out. There’s not much to show, so I’m thinking they’ll be audio or text at this point. We’ll see how it goes.

I forgot to mention that Spokes made it into the Kalmazoo Bicycle Film Festival like I hoped it would. It seemed well received by the audience and it makes me eager to keep working.

Spokes, my new short film

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:19:03 +0000

Well, production is wrapped and the final video has been delivered to the web and sent off the the Kalamazoo Bike Film Festival.

Come see the 3 minute short that ate up over a month of my life, over 450 index cards, over 5 grey Prismacolor 50% cool grey markers, 4 Sharpie markers, and etc etc.

C’mon and check it out!
Watch Spokes

Splitting Pixels will be missing this week.

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:26:37 +0000

I didn’t film myself working this week. It’s kind of awkward and time consuming and I’d rather spend the time just working on the short instead. But here’s some insight as to what went on.

After getting the mixture of photo and video to a point where I was pleased, it was time to start working on the other parts of the short. So, I started where else but the beginning. Now, the beginning all takes place on pieces of paper, not off the paper like the rest of the short. So, I did this part digitally by photoshopping and arranging in final cut rather then trying to lay stuff on the paper to make it look like it’s in the paper or drawing ontop of drawings on paper. It took awhile to clean everything up, and arrange everything to look like it all fits and belongs how it is. It looks decent and I’m happy.

So then I finished my next batch of drawings (I’ve now used a total of at least 300 index cards) and ran out of ink the markers I colored grey with. After a run to three Michaels (one of which has closed, so two Michaels?) I returned with all the markers they had (which ended up being only 3 total) and got back to work. Sarah helped me cut them out and I took all the shots in one sitting on Friday. Cleaned up some stuff in Photoshop and ran it into Final Cut.

I’m now sitting at over a minute of footage.

Not bad, but I’m only about halfway done. Next week I need to kick it into high gear and really work. Time to do a lot more drawing.

Splitting Pixels: Episode Two

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:26:28 +0000

It’s been a rough week for getting work done. But here is a short episode two. I almost wanted to skip the week since I didn’t have much, and it was going to be late anyway. But, here is something so I can keep myself on a track of sorts. It even has about 5 seconds of animation! Wow!

[See post to watch Flash video]

Splitting Pixels: Episode One

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:00:14 +0000

Splitting Pixels is a little production video series I’m hoping to do weekly while working on projects. Since I just started a new project I thought it was a good time to start it.

[See post to watch Flash video]

Going to try and keep them as a Monday thing. Monday’s need more cool things.

Alright, let’s kick it!

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:55:33 +0000

Work has begun on a new short film! As an extra bonus, I’m going to try and do a weekly short video showcasing me working on it! Time to use this website again!

First episode comes MONDAY!

Exclamation points!

Time to add in the new before the end of the year!

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:41:49 +0000

Five new videos now online! From the featured collection of videos on Justin and Staci’s Wedding DVD, come these five easter egg videos! I can post them because they already found them on the disc! Each video was created by one of the groomsmen in their wedding, and thus has a special place in their hearts. Watch them, won’t you?

Justin and Staci Easter Eggs

New videos! And some News!

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:46:15 +0000

Well, with Saturday fast approching, Justin and Staci are set to be married. Thus, we have finished work on the five “movie trailers” for them. You can watch all of them in the Videos section, or just click this link!

Justin and Staci Wedding Trailers

Also, it being September, that means our holiday themed The Third Half short needs your votes! Visit The Third Half Website for more details! We appreciate your support!

Wedding Trailers

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:36:35 +0000

When you think of wedding videography you think of boring ceremony video or montages of people dancing like idiots. Well, for Justin Gibson we’re creating a series of movie preview videos to show BEFORE the ceremony, as the wedding is being held in a theater. There are 5 in total and we’ll post them up as they get completed. You can look forward to such titles as:

Steve Wizardman and the Garage of Intrigue
Alt + Shift + I for INTERNET
The Man and the Moon
My Robot Wife
Western

The Tale of St. Patrick’s Day

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:33:08 +0000

Our first ever The Third Half cartoon is complete! It’s in a competition so you’ll have to go to the link below to see it! Voting starts September 1st, so please come back then and vote for us!

http://www.aniboom.com/animation-video/386093/The-Tale-of-St-Patricks-Day/