Update time!

Lesley and I had a fantastic choreo session today; we now have the whole flick choreographed. Just a matter now of getting it perfect and up to speed.

Also, all our raw materials are in now for costumes, green screens, props etc. And we shot some video! I hope to have it cut and posted for your enjoyment Sunday.

Cheers everybody!

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Just a note--I have been out of town finishing school and have just gotten a bit of time to get back to work on Morphology. The constraints of being a full-time student (and moving every few weeks) kind of put a damper on things but I wanted to mention that the project is not only not dead but seriously moving forward. Spent the day today on choreography and props. Practising one stunt had me fall from a greater hight than I had planned. Lesley may have taken a hook kick to the face. This is not your grandpappy's Tron, ladies and gents. Shit gets real.

I'm going to attempt to rehydrate, and ice myself, because tomorrow we do it all again. And then the next day. And pretty much every day or second day until May 21, which is when we shoot.

Blargh. (sound of passing out)

Quick thing: our location cancelled on us; apparently there's a long weekend when we were planning to shoot and everything's closed...? Victoria Day is weird. Anyways, our shoot is slipping a bit again but it is allowing us time to make more elaborate costumes (more in line with the suits from the movie) so meh, so be it.

Also, a couple of proof-of-concept shots to make sure our process for doing the glow works and is not total shit. Still a little jenky because of lighting but not bad on the whole.

http://youtu.be/xYafXkwpvEQ

LWSrocks2 Wrote:Pretty cool! Although there were a few tiny glitches with the Identity Disk. So I can see you're going with the official toys as your props, rather than something else?

Yeah, I said something to that effect in the video description:

A couple of things that I've learned while doing this: one, mottled paint makes for a mottled effect (see the example with the outer ring of the disc). Two, even lighting is key, and these tests were both done with just fluorescent overheads and ambient lighting. Even lighting from all sides will ensure that the colour I'm keying out is even and doesn't get those jenky edges you see from time to time.

For the discs, we did decide to go with the official toys. We played with the idea of making our own from scratch, then we considered doing something totally different (a kind of hybrid of the Tron 2.0 discs and the Legacy disc), then we started playing with the official toys and they were light and fun and seemed like they'd work best for our costuming needs as well as as props.

Other stuff, like Niko's baton, Kadij's sword, and the costumes, as well as stuff like the Black Guards' staffs and other assorted props are all original.

I'm noticing (now that it's not 3AM) that the actual glow of the glow is a little (read: a lot) fainter than I originally thought. Will have to experiment to make sure that the glow actually glows noticeably, rather than just being colour replacement. Other stuff I noticed (taken from the video description) that still needs work:

The effect colours still need work, too. I need to find some HD screencaps to get some good samples of core and glow colours. Once I establish a palette the effect can get more consistent and closer to what we see in the movie.

This, I think, is key to selling the effect, and I think it'll help work out the problems I'm having with getting it to look just like the effect in the movie.

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Videos!

We have a good time when we're working on Morphology, and I wanted to share a couple of them.

Production Meeting Goes Bananashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxX-hf9xPRU
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pbbbbbbt one forward pratfall and she's all D:

man if i went through the laundry list of stunts i've had to do that could result in pain or death.

anyhow the blog updates are great and i like how you're getting costumes done on the cheap,
the interim guard costume idea is just fanastic as a 1.5 model.

This is going to be a bit of a "meet the cast & crew" post, so if that does not appeal at all, keep movin'

Well, we had a 5 hour production meeting today, with myself, Lesley, our actors Greg, Flynn (who is doubling as our lead makeup artist), and Luc; our cinematographer Amber, and our AD/script supervisor Bonnie. Missing but not forgotten were our grips, including Chris, our lead lighting guy, and our sound guy/boom mic operator.

Spectacularly successful, although some technical malfunctions means that we might not have photos, which is too bad. Our shot list is finally done, rehearsals were great, Luc is totally into being a product of the system. Greg's as-yet-unnamed character is going be be badass. He's really getting into his character, right down to emulating body language and posture. And Flynn is just the hotness. Period. She's going to make a great program, and while she's never seen Tron of any kind, chose makeup exactly like Gem's for her character. Imagine Gem, but more obviously one of the bad guys, and a redheaded Aussie.

Also managed to get a test of Lesley's prosthetic makeup done today, although it wasn't quite as definitive as I'd hoped--we'll need to do another makeup test, with proper footage, on her between now and the shoot. The prosthetics I made for her were rush jobs, although they worked well enough for what they were. Not to mention I need makeup tests done on me as well. Even with a browner base skin tone than the others, I will still need some of the pink leeched out of it using makeup so that the glow effects work properly. You can see some glow artifacting on my fingertips in the effects test video; some white base will add the pallour that I need for the character and also prevent that from happening.

I tell ya, I am never doing a project without an AD ever again. Bonnie is just making my life. She's so on the ball, keeps us crazy artists (especially those of us who were partying until 4 AM the night before *sheepish cough*) on the straight and narrow. And she not only speaks the language of efficiency but manages to also communicate on an artistic level. Pure. Genius.

Amber works as a semi-professional cinematographer, which means that she brings a level of professionalism and technical ability to the production we otherwise wouldn't have had. Watching her manipulate the camera and set up shots is brilliant, and I can't wait to shoot so I can see her capture the stuff. She's never done so much green-screen work on one production, though, and has never had the benefit of someone who can do a decent matchmove, or a worked with a VFX artist who doesn't do CGI sets like a half-baked Photoshop job, so she and I are butting heads occasionally on just how dynamic some shots can be. Fortunately, I think we've come to an understanding on it and the shot list and storyboards are really reflecting how we're starting to communicate.

I spent part of the day taking measurements and doing preliminary costume fittings. They were all champs about being groped by a dude with a measuring tape, and their full helmets have been built up in skeletal form awaiting their finish. The rest of the costumes are now coming along nicely, and Flynn's costume has taken on a small degree of complexity that makes it more visually interesting on its own rather than just being interesting because it's on her.

There'll be more on the blog later, but that's what we're up to for now

Oh, and by the way: June 18 is our confirmed shoot date. If you're interested, I tweet a fair bit about the project and will undoubtedly be live-tweeting the shoot on the day of, so you can follow me at @trevor_ccw.

i always seem to chime in with some tech geek crapola but if you want pointers with prosthetics, it's literally my day job.

shoot me a PM or we can talk shop in here.