Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Pandora Machine Filmmaking Handbook s01e02 near and far boom


The second lesson on making movies the Pandora Machine way.

The Pandora Machine Movie Handbook

I may blog on "Making Movies the Pandora Machine Way".
Here are YouTube best practices. Basically "make it short."
Of course, you already know that. Not that. That.
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You like random notes about things on the Internet? Here's one:

One big decision implied by the new scenes is that the world Vicky describes to Barbara, as she's lying paralyzed, is real. There are drones, and Central Command, the resistance, the Terran Defense Force, the AI, and a new kind of android body. The new scenes all fit in the first half of the current edit, so that the pacing and flow of the second half through the ending are not affected.


Sunday, February 12, 2017

The Opera

The story of the opera is basically Apocalypse Now, but it takes place in a world where the robots have won the war and now a combat android has to go to the New York City Containment Zone to kill an android that is systematically wiping out the last vestiges of the human race.

Thursday, February 09, 2017

Pandora Machine Handbook -- Finish your movie!



Here's the first episode of The Pandora Machine Handbook -- Making Movies the Pandora Machine Way. It's on finishing, and why you should finish even if you're frustrated.

Wednesday, February 01, 2017

CNC Guitar Tutorial - Flipping over a 3D body



This dude makes some beautiful guitars. kozmguitars.com

It took me a while to comprehend the geometry starting with his glued-together block of wood. Boy these guitars look comfy.