2D to 3D Motion Graphics Test

This is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while now. I’ve seen this technique used in several documentaries recently and wanted to try it out for myself. The idea was to take a 2D image of some kind and move a camera through the scene to reveal that there is actually depth. What I did was break this painting (The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra by John Martin) up along what I perceived to be the foreground, mid-ground and background using Photoshop. I then imported the layered Photoshop file into Apple Motion where I spaced each, of what ended up being almost twelve layers, out along the Z axis. It took quite a bit of tweaking, but ended up being really easy to do.

“Casualty” Screened at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

From Feb 14-20, 2008 my short documentary titled “A Casualty of the Promise Land“ was screened in Missoula Montana at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.  It sounds crazy but I was in the middle of our move to Orlando when I heard they wanted to show it up there, and I didn’t pay much attention to it. It’s already airing nationally on Current TV but I’m still kinda kicking myself a little bit, ’cause it would have been cool to go up and mingle with the industry people. I honestly didn’t realize it was such a big deal until I was Google’ing my name (which I do occasionally… don’t pretend like you don’t do it too!) and the profile page for my film popped up. I took a look at the Big Sky website, and more importantly the sponsors (Sony, Avid, HBO, IndiePix Films and a whole lot more). It’s actually seems to be kinda big time! I just heard “Missoula, Montana” and immediately assumed insignificant… mistake. Well I’ll learn from this one. At least Ben Phen (who co produced the piece with me) was able to make it to Sundance this year.