No sooner had we finished on the bid Zombie shoot – and taken a day to return gear etc… then we were in preproduction for our next fxphd shoot. Now I can’t give away the details until next week.. but was thankfully a smaller half day “magazine” style shoot. Shot on P2 the new shoot […]
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Last day of the shoot

So we have now finished the shoot. The shoot has really served two purposes. 1) the film itself of course, which is really interesting and a great story. 2) The making of… for use this term and next. For the film we shot Viper – as a tapeless workflow. For the making of we shot […]
Shooting a Zombie!

So we are on Day 3 – and back at the same location as yesterday. This is a fun day we shoot arrows through our Zombie and then blow him up! This will of course involve a few visual effects shots, but as you can see from today’s image – the sun has come out… […]
Day two
Zombie Drive through !!! On the way to the shoot this morning – Richard – or Zombie – wanted breakfast after being in the makeup chair for hours (since 4 am) We figured … why not try the drive via a local McDonalds !!! […]
Day One

Production is off to a great start. Today is filming in a residential street which we needed to both lock down and then make look like a bomb zone. Most of the filming today was from the Viper Camera with the Venom pack, mounted on a steadicam – which in turn was mounted on the […]
Pre-production
Preproduction continues… but not much to blog as I have been sick as a Dog. We shoot SAT-SUN-MON-TUES…. and today & tomorrow (thur-fri) are last minute pre-production… wow it sucks being sick… plus I need to get classes out… anyway sorry for the lack of postings but I will start back tomorrow Mike […]
Responsibility
I wanted to thank everyone from NAB – but now I am back in Sydney, our attention turns to the Shoot this weekend. We have had a production crew in pre-production while I was in the States and they have done a great job in preparing everything. For those who have heard about the zombie […]

Jeff found this in Animation Magazine – very cool! […]
Tuesday At NAB
Today was a really tough day for the HD film crew as we were shooting loads of material. In brief it ran like this 7am Call time 8.30 show floor 9.30 RED Video interview 11.00 Meetings 12.00 Apple Video Interview 1.30 Foundry – Nuke Video Interview 2.00 Shake – Furnace Video Interview 3.30 General filming […]
Monday
Monday was a good day.. last night we did the Autodesk user group. There was a huge reaction from the people there. We started podcasting around 7.30 and finished around 9.30 – but of course we were setting up from 5 and we did not finish editing until well after 1am. (see Gary and Tahl […]