Phew!  This has got to be the largest set yet.  Lighting it was a marathon and building it was an eternity.  So here, submitted for your discerning approval is a shot of he entire animation area.  I’m using what looks to be part of a baby crib as a lighting rig, three shop clamp lights, a goose-neck desk lamp and a borrowed kino flo tube light.  Sheets of printer paper and clothespins work as light diffusers.  Here’s proof positive you don’t need a zillion dollars to make a movie.  “You just need,” as W.S. Burrows once said, “is a little make due and know how.”

Getting ready to shoot the next scene in the “Entering the Fold” sequence.
Is it me or do the railroad ties look like strips of bacon?

58mm 10x Macro Filter Kit is in the house! There’s no comparing the quality of the Canon EFS 18-55mm lens with the macro filter to the macro on the Sony DV Cam. The superior quality lens combined with the macro filter adds an incredible new dimension of depth and richness to the image. Surprisingly, there is enough depth of field with the aperture cranked down to keep the figure in focus.  I had to shoot close-ups with the macro on the DV Cam for the previous shots. They turned out satisfactory, but ooh la la … Yes Macro filter!

With a little help from my ol’ friend Eadward Muybridge I’ve rotoscoped out a fairly decent paper-like buffalo for the upcoming chase scene.

The gift of working space from High Concept Laboratories is truly a boon.  In the last week I’ve been able to accomplish what has previously taken months.  Without the quotidian distractions of home I’ve been able to acutely focus on the pleasurable experience of actual film making.  (I know its technically a video but I’m not interested in getting into a semantics argument with myself on the blog.)  I’m rather happy to announce I finished an entire usable sequence of shots and can hardly wait to get back to the “lab” to make more.