Solo - a Danish Documentary
Hello everyone, I have to make a completely selfish plug for a movie I worked on lately. It is called Solo and is about Jon, the first winner of the Danish Popstars show. I don’t speak a word of Danish — well, at least not enough to fully understand the movie — but the critics seem to love it and it is a big success for us so far.
Me and my team worked on several things, some which made it into the final movie and some which ended up on the cutting floor. We had some nice effects and compositings in there, but the director decided that it is a documentary not an effects movie. A good decision if you ask me, although it is a pity the effects never me it into public.
What is left is a few name removals from signs and some other invisible effects to increase the quality of the material like degraining or resizing and reframing, etc.
We are shipping the DVD which has English subtitles (Yay! I finally can understand what I contributed to!!!) over the company website and through the normal DVD stores beginning of June. So just grab a copy and make the success even bigger, will ya?
"Prisoners of the Sun" Put on Hold
It is official now. The production of "Prisoners of the Sun" has been put on hold. All employees and freelancers have been laid of as of 30th April 2008.
According to rumors, it seems the legal situation of the movie was not researched thoroughly before going into post production.
It is a pity, because we were at a stage, where all the pipelines were set up and we just started our first two full CG shots. We were actually starting to have some good old VFX fun. But not anymore. Now we have 20 people hunting for jobs again.
It really makes me sad to give up a great little company. We had a killer team. Thanks to all of you for being so great.
P.S.: If anyone has an open position for a compositor or VFX producer let me know.