I will personally be in attendance to speak about the film and answer any questions! I encourage anyone who can make it to come. My panel is scheduled for:
Scrap Metal was one of the 15 shorts selected out of over 160 submissions! I want very much to attend this fest as it is taking place in the Toronto homeland. But alas, my contract in the USA once again denies my the pleasure. Please check out the festival if you can:
Scrap Metal is featured on DragonFrame's blog, which is reserved for films that were shot using this awesome frame-grabber software. Although, back in the day, the program was called Dragon Pro. The year Scrap Metal was shot was also the first year that Sheridan College adopted the use Dragon software for student films. Four other student films were shot that same year using Dragon and all of them were successfully completed and look terrific! I've also noticed that every stop-motion studio I've worked at uses DragonFrame as well; it is easily the best frame-grabbing software I've every used and I can't recommend it more to my fellow stop-motion animators.
Scrap Metal is now available to view in 3D exclusively only on Youtube! And its not that fancy-pants, polarized 3D crap you see now. No, this is Sheridan Scope - hard core, blue-and-red, 50's monster-flick 3D where the colours are all screwed up, but you don't mind in this case cause its all nostalgic and junk! So dig out those old 3D glasses you cut out of your cereal box 15 years ago and put them to good use!
*NOTE: After launching the video, click the 'change quality' icon, which is the little gear in the lower, right-hand corner and change the video to 720p for best resolution, then click the little 3D icon which will then appear just left of this icon. You get some 3D options, I'd suggest 'full colour'. For best results watch in full-screen and, if this embed gives you any trouble, just click the little YouTube icon in the lower-right corner to go straight to the YouTube page.
**UPDATE: YouTube no longer seems to have the 3D feature, but you can still enjoy the film in high resoltion.
Well, we've all been patiently waiting for the Mayan calendar to end and now it is almost upon us. And you all know what that means right? Armageddon!! And what better way to celebrate the end of civilization than with the worldwide release of Scrap Metal? That's right, one year and eight months after the completion of my thesis film, I've finally decided to release it on the web for everyone to stream absolutely free! Why free? Well, money isn't really going to be worth anything in 2013 now is it? Except maybe to burn for warmth after solar flares knock us into the dark ages! One problem with my plan though, if the grid does go down, how will anyone be able to watch Scrap Metal on the Internet? Well, just be ready on the 21st to catch it before the grid is gone, don't wait, watch it while you can and send it to everyone you know so that they can get a quick glimpse of what the end of the world looks like before enjoying it firsthand!
I can't just leave you all high and dry though, so here is a little teaser that has been a long time coming:
