Whew, so I just finished Blazing Broccoli, I'll post it on the dot at noon. I pretty much sat in front of my computer for 12 hours straight doing the special effects for this crazy short. And I'm not exaggerating, 7 pm to 8 am. I of course ate and went to the bathroom, but jeez, take that out and you're at about 12.

Anyway, it's been a crazy night of special effects. I'll post some cool tidbits about them later once the film is up.

Well it's less than 8 hours to the debut of Snakes on a Car, and it's not quite ready yet... But it will be! Even if I don't sleep tonight. In fact, let's just face it, I won't sleep tonight. Right now I'm working on the Chroma Key (Green Screen green removal) for the edited footage. Actually I'm done with the keying part and am adding in the background footage. Matching it is a lot of fun. Actually it's not. But it's fun to look at when it is done. It's amazing how similtaneously fake and real green-screened footage looks. On the one hand your brain just wants to accept it, and on the other hand your brain knows it isn't real. Crazy.

Anyway, the point of this blog is to reassure everyone that SOAC will make it out at noon today/monday. I hope.

Well, I should really go to bed, but I have so much to post about, so I'm not going to just yet.

First off, NAB--National Association of Broadcasters. This is a big tradeshow--over 100,000 people--in Las Vegas where all companies in broadcasting--all elements--set up booths and show off their lastest stuff.

Biggest, coolest thing: The Red camera. This thing is about $25k outfitted, but it's amazing. Especially for the cost. This thing for me put the final nail in film's coffin. The bottom line is: This camera is digital film. It has the resolution, the sensor, the look--everything. Their test footage was a short film by Peter Jackson which just plain looked like film.

Also I saw an 8k Ultra HD footage--all digital. Basically it's a digital version of IMAX. Not to mention it was outfitted with 22.2 (or something ridiculously high like that) channel surround sound which was awesome. By the way, 8k means that it's basically the resolution of 64 HDTVs stacked on top of eachother.

For those of you who watch the show 30Rock, which if you don't you should, I got to hear the producer talk about their editing process, which was really cool. She focused on the chroma keying and finishing effects. Some of the things they change and fix in their footage-like signs, posters, and photographs, you'd just never know.

Also I got to demo and check out Apple's new Final Cut Studio 2, which is an amazing software package. Their Motion 3 and Color software made drool all over myself.

Anyway, lots of other stuff, but those where some of the highlights. As for Crush, I've been sort of trying to come up with a release schedule for Microfilms and CC4, but it's been hard to nail down exactly how much time is needed for everything, but the good news is we just shot a new microfilm today which will be sort of a cross between Shoevil and Colonel Crush. And add in some vegetables. Just let your imagination fly on that one, but I can promise we wont disappoint.

Ah.... it took me until 5 am last night, but Milk Battle has finally been delivered. Milk Battle has been in the works for nearly 10 months--not that we've been working on it the whole time, but it was no walk in the park, I assure you--so it's hard to actually think of Milk Battle as complete. In fact, all last night I had nightmares that Milk Battle wasn't actually finished and that we never would be... I'd never been so horrified in my life. I was actually glad when I had my recurring dream about zombies. Which is awesome, because it's me and Matt and Jeff in a post-apocalyptic zombie world with Katanas, an array of firearms, and sweet motorcycles--not to mention things are always blowing up. Does it get any more awesome than that!?

Well we've been up to a lot today, with a busy spring break planned out ahead of us. Today we filmed and completed a news broadcast parody where I play an on the scene tv reporter, which was a lot of fun. Especially since it took about a million takes because the monologue was so damn long. Look forward to that one pretty soon.

We've also been writing for the Film Noir series extensively. We have two episodes completely written with 6 more planned out. The episodes we have done are shaping up to be one of the funniest things we've ever written. Which actually doesn't say much, considering how much we just improv on the spot.

We also spent some money on toy snakes today for a microfilm we plan to shoot tomorrow, which will parody an overly hyped summer movie that didn't actually make that much money. See if you can figure out which.

We'll back to work.