Video: Preproduction Week
on September 6th, 2009, by Colin LevyWelp, this week has been entirely dedicated to story and coming up with a final script, so it’s taken me some time to wade through the footage from the preproduction week.
Finally had some time to churn it out today. A bit long, but check it out!
Preproduction Workshop from Project Durian on Vimeo.
September 6th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Love to see the process. I hope the main parts of the whole process can be included with the project release.
Keep it up! it’s all very exciting and educatve.
September 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am
“advanced blender institute technology”, rofl!
thanks for this and i hope there will be more videos like this during durian 🙂
i wish everyone a great time over there!
have fun.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Epic. I wish I was part of the team.
Oh well. See you at the conference. 😉
September 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Aaah, the sandwiches!! That brings back memories. Great video
September 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Awesome, hope the video feeds will continue trough out Durian. 🙂
September 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
gosh make me want to be part of this team even more 🙁
September 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
seriously, who coded that screen?!
he should be banned from the institute!! 😀
loved the update, the bad-ass snail rocks!!!
September 6th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Where’s the ogg version?
September 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I can’t believe I just watched that whole thing 😛 But to be honest, that was probably the most I have laughed in a week… (you see, I have quite the boring life…)
September 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Pov.
Mosquito buzz in background.
From behind her.
“Are you the thief they’re looking for?
“Yes” (Angrily).
It would be easier to read in HD.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Her name’s Margreet, not “Margaret”. tsk tsk 😉
September 6th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
@Cory Taylor and everyone else who thought that was a story leak…
We went with a different concept anyway. Mainly because it’s Nathan’s movie after all and he had “creative issues” with it.
September 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
@Becca – Oh no! Gah, I didn’t even stop to think. I also omitted Lee’s name somehow. It was there at one point.
September 6th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
hey guys, check out this dragon speedpainting competition going on on a romanian forum http://www.visualart.ro/forum/showthread.php?p=318803#post318803 maybe you can get some inspiration!
September 6th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Thanks for the video. At first I couldn’t get why I was seeing people just talking about general stuff and not more about the movie. Then of course the movie is being made by these people. I then started to appreciate showing how the team has met up and was interacting with each other.
Thanks you for posting these kinds of updates. Very inspirational. Thank you. Good luck to the Durian team. This is going to be a great project.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
So apparently there are going to be thieving dwarves stealing golden rings… So far so good, but _please_ don’t overdo it and e.g. let the heroine be an elf (i.e. having pointy ears and somesuch). That could turn out to be very bad move…
September 6th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Oh never mind the part about the dwarves in my last post, didn’t see Ben’s remark about the discarded concept. But point about my trouble with pointy ears is still valid I guess.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Some one getting angry with MAYA? 😉
Looking forward to the durian.
Btw what happens if the 2000 target isn’t met, does this still go ahead?
September 7th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Cool! This is very cool!
September 7th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Good stuff.
If I could contribute to the mood board, I would post Robert E. Howard’s short story “The Tower of the Elephant” (link to text on Project Gutenberg Australia).
The plot is quite short, but builds to a climax that the hero could not have imagined, let alone the reader. With the exception of some distasteful antisemitism in the second paragraph, this is a highly imaginative and delightful story.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:55 am
woot!
dodol durian?
where did you guys get it? 😛
September 7th, 2009 at 7:20 am
yo quiero un trabajo así XD
saludos…
September 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
wow~ that Rabbit Candy!! I love that!!! It followed all my childhood~~ hoho~
why you guys always have so many delicious food for dinner~? haha~ really want to join you guys 😀
September 7th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Is there a downloadable version in a format we can play with free software operating systems?
An Ogg Vorbis+Theora version would be nice.
September 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Very good idea that to follow the process of this movie!
deeply suite!
September 8th, 2009 at 3:21 am
So much for:
“I don’t know why they want me. I just suck,” eh Nathan? Though I do believe in your current revision a bit more. 😀
And uh.. Audrey person. We’d all like to know: does Nathan get annoying, or is it encouraging to have someone like that around? I’d certainly enjoy it, but certain people I know would spontaneously combust.
PS: Will anyone spontaneously combust in the movie?
September 8th, 2009 at 4:25 am
That was great fun to watch! Thanks for posting it!
I’ve found that the trick to those screens (and similar window shades) is making a quick or even forceful release. I hope that doesn’t help, though, because then all the fun would be gone. 😀
Good luck, everyone!
September 8th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Links to Ogg Vorbis+Theora files of the movie:
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/preproduction-week.ogv
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/half-size-preproduction-week.ogv
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/half-size-defaultquality-preproduction-week.ogv
Here’s hoping that this blog automatically links strings that resemble URIs.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Please upload somewhere where folks without access to flash can view it. Ogg Theora + Vorbis would be nice, or youtube works because it is possible to download .mp4/.flv files.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I posted some links to Ogg Vorbis + Theora versions of this movie I made, but I suppose the blog filter either ate the post or that post waits for moderator approval.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
@J.B. Nicholson-Owens – Just approved the post from the spam filter. Thanks for taking the time to convert, upload and post ogg versions! I appreciate it.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@Astroman Pete – just read the Tower of the Elephant. Nice story! Great feeling of the world Howard creates.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
@J.B. Nicholson-Owens: Sorry, but i’ve some issues with your Ogg encoded videos (looks like both Firefox and VLC skips frames and it looks bad, meanwhile mp4 version grabbed from Vimeo plays fine in VLC… sorry 🙁 ) 🙁
September 10th, 2009 at 3:40 am
I found the problem — don’t use the “–sync” option on this video. The sync appears to be fine without using that option.
I believe all the videos play smoothly now (unless your computer isn’t fast enough to decode the video, of course). I’ve re-derived the video and replaced the previously mentioned Ogg Vorbis + Theora files. Please visit the following links and enjoy in freedom:
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/best-quality-preproduction-week.ogv
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/preproduction-week.ogv
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/half-size-preproduction-week.ogv
To make the files I used ffmpeg2theora version 0.24+svn which I downloaded from
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
# best quality, full size (you probably want this)
ffmpeg2theora –optimize –videoquality 10 –output best-quality-preproduction-week.ogv input.mp4
# default quality, full size (reasonable compromise)
ffmpeg2theora –optimize –output preproduction-week.ogv input.mp4
# default quality, half size (should play well anywhere)
ffmpeg2theora –width 320 –optimize –output half-size-preproduction-week.ogv input.mp4
Each command is one line. The optimize, width, and videoquality options are prefixed with double hyphens (just in case your blog is set to turn those into some other character).
I offer this in the hope future videos can be shared in this free format in the future.
September 10th, 2009 at 4:01 am
@ Colin
Awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:38 am
cool to see you guys in action!
I wonder if eating these strange sweets was part of the contracts and if they tasted like one would imagine.
Was kinda odd that noone actualy said he likes em:D
Great part with the aquarel painting of David.
Did you actually cut out Nathan hugging Brecht when he showed up or did he successfully avoid it?
Regards from Berlin
Nixon
September 10th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Thank you J.B. the Theora version means I could watch it 🙂
Now, it could be nice if subtitles would be in the movie for people who are not English native speakers, because there is a lot of talk 😉
But I understand it is maybe a lot of work, so maybe not.