Poem of the Transparent Girl

For our Intermedia I class, we  were taught how to rotoscope using Adobe Flash. We were all given 40 frames to rotoscope and they were then blended together with the original audio to re-create the poem. This is the final product. For those curious, my part appears from 1:31 – 1:35.

Make-Up Artist

A few posts ago, I mentioned that I was selected to be onboard the crew of an Elaine Wai photoshoot. I was asked to be the make-up artist for the “fiend”. She recently sent me the pictures of the final work, so I can now show my make-up / prosthetic talents. I’m very proud of her final work and pleased to have worked with her. This isn’t all of her photoshoot, but the pictures showing my work. All copyright of these photographs belong to Elaine Wai. They can only be used under her approval.

New Ad

I recently got hired to shoot a dance show for my friend’s sister. Unlike the program for the High School variety show, I’ve been given ad space for the program. So I quickly designed something using that reflective illusion on illustrator. The tripod has been vectorized (the one used in my SBE intro video) and the camera is the one I used in my self-portrait for my Intermedia class. The lens was not mine, I got lazy and just searched for a free vectorized lens I could use. All-in-all, it looks pretty good. Simple, classy, to the point. Hopefully people will understand the e-mail at the bottom, that’s my only worry. Although you really have to be internet unsavvy  to not get it.

The Hot Mess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN4g55BIA1c

The Hot Mess is a web series where Phil Stamper talks about the latest buzz in media. Not only is he entertaining to watch, but he gives you quick and easy information that’s good to know. Use it to start up a quick conversation!! 

In this episode he give a nice shout out to my Doritos commercial! Thanks Phil!

Doritos Guru

Doritos have a contest open to all Canadian citizens. Using their new unidentified flavour, we have to make up a commercial for it in 30 seconds. After days of waiting, they finally posted up the entry Ryan and I made. The winner gets $25,000 and 1% future net sales of that flavour. Like the other hundreds of applicants, we’re hoping for the best!

http://doritosguru.ca/MrBrisson/Frozen%20Pastime

Sam’s Global Video

So today I officially launched “Sam’s Global Video”, a project that I’ve been thinking about for a few months now. I’ve been hesitant on actually going through with it just because I’ve never depended so much on other people to make a video successful. It requires anyone I’ve ever known to record themselves saying “I know Sam Brisson.” If they want, they can add extra comments keeping it under 20 seconds. It’s almost the end of the first day and I have 71 members in the group. Hopefully these are people who actually want to record something and didn’t just approve of the group invite for the hell of it. I’ve already got one entry, and I’m just crossing my fingers that this thing will turn out!

Make-up Artist?

A few days ago I was contacted by Elaine Wai, a Photography student at Concordia University. She messaged me saying that my name was dropped as a latex prosthetic make-up artist (one of my classmates had mentioned me.) Anyway, her planned shoot is tomorrow and wednesday, so I’m pretty excited for it since I’ve never done anything like this before. I’ve seen some of her pictures and I’m quite impressed with her work. Once I get some of those pictures, I’ll post them up on here but for now, you can go to her website at http://acquiescences.deviantart.com/.

Oscar Picks!

Alright, with the Oscars coming up on Sunday, I thought I would put into writing my picks for this year’s winners. Afterwards, I’ll update it to see which ones I got right!! Of course I haven’t seen all these movies, but some I’m just routing for.

Nominees for the 81st Academy Awards & Winners!

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” 
• Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon”
• Sean Penn in “Milk” <— He won, upset of the night in my opinion.
• Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 
• Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” 

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Josh Brolin in “Milk” 
• Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” 
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” 
• Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” <— YES!
• Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” 

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” 
• Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”
• Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” 
• Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
• Kate Winslet in “The Reader” <— YES!

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams in “Doubt”
• Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” <— She won (shouldn’t have listened to mom)
• Viola Davis in “Doubt”
• Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
• Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler”

Best animated feature film of the year

• “Bolt” Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• “Kung Fu Panda” John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
• “WALL-E” Andrew Stanton <— YES!

Achievement in art direction

• “Changeling” Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo <— YES!
• “The Dark Knight” Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
• “The Duchess” Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
• “Revolutionary Road” Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

• “Changeling” Tom Stern
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Claudio Miranda
• “The Dark Knight” Wally Pfister
• “The Reader” Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Anthony Dod Mantle <— YES!

Achievement in costume design

• “Australia” Catherine Martin
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Jacqueline West
• “The Duchess” Michael O’Connor <— He won (c’mon, why do all historical movies win this)
• “Milk” Danny Glicker
• “Revolutionary Road” Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” David Fincher
• “Frost/Nixon” Ron Howard
• “Milk” Gus Van Sant
• “The Reader” Stephen Daldry
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Danny Boyle <— YES!

Best documentary feature

• “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
• “Encounters at the End of the World” Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
• “The Garden” Scott Hamilton Kennedy
• “Man on Wire” A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn <— YES!
• “Trouble the Water” An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

• “The Conscience of Nhem En” Steven Okazaki
• “The Final Inch” Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
• “Smile Pinki” Megan Mylan <— She won (just guessing at this one)
• “The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306” Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• “The Dark Knight” Lee Smith
• “Frost/Nixon” Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
• “Milk” Elliot Graham
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Chris Dickens <— YES!

Best foreign language film of the year

• “The Baader Meinhof Complex” Germany
• “The Class” France
• “Departures” Japan <— It won.
• “Revanche” Austria
• “Waltz with Bashir” Israel

Achievement in makeup

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Greg Cannom <— YES!!
• “The Dark Knight” John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
• “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Alexandre Desplat
• “Defiance” James Newton Howard
• “Milk” Danny Elfman
• “Slumdog Millionaire” A.R. Rahman <— YES!
• “WALL-E” Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
• “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar <— YES!
• “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best motion picture of the year

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
• “Frost/Nixon” Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
• “Milk” Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
• “The Reader” Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Christian Colson, Producer <— YES!

Best animated short film

• “La Maison en Petits Cubes” Kunio Kato <— He won (made a good racial stereotype joke!)
• “Lavatory – Lovestory” Konstantin Bronzit
• “Oktapodi” Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
• “Presto” Doug Sweetland
• “This Way Up” Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

• “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” Reto Caffi
• “Manon on the Asphalt” Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
• “New Boy” Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
• “The Pig” Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
• “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” Jochen Alexander Freydank <— YES! (total fluke)

Achievement in sound editing

• “The Dark Knight” Richard King <— He won, good job!
• “Iron Man” Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
• “WALL-E” Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
• “Wanted” Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
• “The Dark Knight” Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty <— They won.. meh..
• “WALL-E” Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
• “Wanted” Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron <— YES!
• “The Dark Knight” Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
• “Iron Man” John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• “Doubt” Written by John Patrick Shanley
• “Frost/Nixon” Screenplay by Peter Morgan
• “The Reader” Screenplay by David Hare
• “Slumdog Millionaire” Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy <— YES!

Original screenplay

• “Frozen River” Written by Courtney Hunt
• “Happy-Go-Lucky” Written by Mike Leigh
• “In Bruges” Written by Martin McDonagh
• “Milk” Written by Dustin Lance Black <— He won
• “WALL-E” Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Illustrator Tracing: Self-Portrait

Alright, so the assignment was to create an illustration of myself using Adobe Illustrator. We then had to create a patterned background that is relevant to your life. So here’s my final product. We also had to be very selective of the colors used. I further experimented with the pattern swatch by creating the laces as such, and I also used a gradient for my jacket.

Illustrator Tracing

Well, it’s almost 1:30 am.. and I should be sleeping since I have a big day tomorrow. When I got back home from work, I decided to practice on my Illustrator homework. Now I’m supposed to do an illustration of myself, but I figured I would practice on a picture of Nikki. Three hours later, and I somewhat wish I had worked on mine, but this was NOT a waste of time. I’m quite proud of my first tracing in Illustrator and I think I might do a few more in the future. Next one will be mine though.