Sorry for the late post.  It’s monday afternoon as I write this.  I was going to get this post up this morning but then a random impromptu meeting was called which lasted until late this afternoon.  Today’s creative thing is from Saturday.
 
First off, I wanted to link you to a fellow reader of the blog Todd Burleson.  I received a really awesome email from him thanking me for giving him regular doses of inspiration.  He was really inspired by my last post that he decided to do it for himself.  He actually did it twice because he wanted to do a time-lapse of the creation process.  Check it out.  He’s doing his own 365 project by taking a photo everyday and he’s farther along in his year than I am.  It’s really the coolest thing in the world to know that others enjoy what you’re doing and to see it come back in such a way is really special.  Thanks Todd!
 
So, I’m working on the new Muppet movie.  Today (saturday) I spent the whole day on set.  I love the muppets so I’m super-excited to be a part of it.  There are some amazing people involved.
 
It was my first day on the set and I’m acting as the EPK producer on the film.  “EPK” is a silly abbreviation for the term Electronic Press Kit.  The truth is we should be called “Publicity” or “Behind the Scenes” instead.  I’m guessing some dude in the early 90’s came up with the term EPK and thought it was awesome.  An EPK is basically a tape.  A tape with the movie’s trailer, behind the scenes footage (b-roll) from the set, soundbites from the cast and crew and finally some film clips to finish it off.  The tape is compiled and sent to entertainment and news organizations around the world.  The EPK provides them with a selection of material that someone could potentially cut their own piece out of.  I’m sure it must have been a groundbreaking idea when the first guy came up with it but nowadays it’s a little dated.
 
Anyways, the job of the EPK producer is to set-up interviews with the filmmakers and generally watch after a small two person crew as they capture behind the scenes footage on set.  As a job, it can get exciting but sometimes it’s just sort of standing around holding a coffee.  I know that this film is going to get pretty crazy and my responsibilities are going to increase but at the moment it’s just as I said, holding a coffee, standing around.  It seems like a very upbeat and happy crew so that’s a major plus.  Today I worked there until about 6pm.  After that, I drove home to join my friends for our annual friends-giving dinner.  I stayed there a little too long socializing and had to come up with my creative thing once I got home.
 
I was under time constraints because I had to wake up pretty early Sunday morning to work.  So, I decided to crack open Cinema4D again and play around with more of those wild Mo’Graph objects.  They’re so fun and easy to create amazing geometric animations with.
 
This time, I created a grid array of some cubes (basically the same shape as a rubic’s cube).  Then I attached a PolyFx to the grid array and animated the X and Y scale independantly.  I animated the camera lowering itself through the center of the grid array as the scales changed.  Finally at the end of the camera move I played with the positions of all the polygons.
 
I decided to go with a heavy black and white contrast  between the background and the cubes because it made the symmetry of the whole thing more apparent.  The music in the video is a very short excerpt from the beautiful and methodical track from the latest Monome Community Remix Project called “Fuki Yukidoke”  It’s made by an artist, and fellow reader of the blog, named Bite.
 
I hope you enjoy!