Red Moon Over Rigger's Pond - Hilarious Dark Comedy

[GTAtomten]

Very nice movie, I liked it alot!

[Hekza2]

that was fun :D

[MrPaulius19]

nice



[MusicManAustralia]

The very end when he falls of the car was EPIC FUNNY!

[Claw220]

Were the gators created in Maya?

[TomAntosFilms]

@Claw220 yup.

[zmultrin]

is it a making of and the aligator looked werry realistic

[shortcut123]

Were you inspired by Stephen King? This video reminds me of "The Raft". (1987 - Creepshow 2)

[VirtuaSinner]

@shortcut123 Maybe subconsciously - I've read that story, though never saw Creepshow 2. I based this script off a short story I wrote in 1999.

[supremefreeflow]

Awesome! KEEP MAKING VIDS ON YOUTUBE!

[119markus1]

do you have an oscar??

[onjoFilms]

Wow, awesome job Tom!. Really professional. Kudos to the actors too. Just one minor thing, they looked at the moon one direction, and the light on their face was the other side, lol. But everything else was super! This could be a feature length film.

[JacobIzrael]

Tom, what do you use for your audio? Do you do a double system?

[GsusMachiaveliko]

this film had a better plot than most of these movies nowadays, :) epic!!!

[SeattlePaddler]

Awesome! Found your channels and videos after watching your DeStorm music video. Great stuff so far!

[DeepMusic707]

i had a dream like this once lol but great job, intense and i really enjoyed it!

[TheJosephwayne]

Great work, really enjoyed it!:)

Keep it up!

[joecoz26]

I thought this was good, but the day for night effect was a bit distracting. Other than that and a few little details, I thought this was good.

[vivaladamm]

I thought it was awsome.

Now I want to try shooting day for night.

Do you then use the blue sky as a green screen and add the star pics?

[VirtuaSinner]

@vivaladamm Not exactly. Most of the sky replacement shots involved rotoscoping out the actors, though it some cases it was possible to just feather down an overlay from the top of the screen, blending it with the real sky before hitting the treetops. This is why in some shots it seems like the sun is just in the process of setting. I think videocopilot's very first tutorial is on sky replacement, if you're curious.

[VirtuaSinner]

@Boony2000 The original script, and the first cut of the film, was a good 15ish minutes longer than what you see here, and the moon played much more prominently in the story. Even the completed DVD release of the film is 3 to 5 minutes longer than this version, which was pared down to fit on youtube - and again, the moon is central to the story in those other versions.

[Boony2000]

The day for night conversion is really obvious... why does it have to be at night anyways?

[webplc]

Tom, did you shoot day for night?

[TomAntosFilms]

@webplc yup

[crippsy22]

Great film :), the story kept together really well :) good scripting too! keep it up, dont worry about the haters mate :) your a good Director :)

[icemaneu]

Alligators don't have tongue.

[TomAntosFilms]

@icemaneu I know... gators also don't look or behave like that or live in cold Canadian lakes, hence it's not a gator. It's a movie character :)

[pilotarash]

Good job, Just the color grading could have been better!

[MrEmpireVideo]

Love the gators...love the expressions...i was tryng to figure out camera placement and lighting and i got cauhgt up in the story...lol..great...

[Bakamanzz]

was the gator 3ds max?

[kuunami]

That was EXCELLENT!! My only criticsm is that I wish you had a more closeup shot of his injured foot to emphasis that he lost his shoe. Even though it's there, the viewer could possibly miss it because there were other things going on in the shot. But that's a really small thing. Great job, I really enjoyed this.

[WelschVideo]

Haha I like the CG gator

[kuunami]

I had to do a double take when I saw that opening logo because it looked like it said something other than rigger's. lol.

[FilghiProductions]

interesting storyline.