Making Open the Door - Vlog One (What is Open the Door?)

Hey guys,
I've been receiving mail asking me what
I'm working on. Here's a video of me talking about
the big project I've started. I spoke for about half an hour
then edited it down to this -I didn't really know what I was going to say so I'm afraid there's some repetition and lots of uming and ahing. .For those who are interested this is possibly the first of a few videos documenting my pain and process creating Open the Door. I think this introductory video will be the longest though.
:o)
Gary

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• making
• of
• behind
• the
• scenes
• film
• spooky
• horror
• love
• fear
• Maya
• cgi
• animation
• monster
• independent
• indie
• Open
• Door
• Gary
• Hesketh
• smartbluecat
• after
• effects

[kathmandau]

Thanks for your work and for sharing your knowledge, Gary.

What software do you use, and would you suggest a beginners guide book to entering into the art?

blessings and continued inspiration,

CG

[smartbluecat]

@kathmandau Thanks so much.

:o)

I taught myself by randomly hitting stuff and reading the odd tutorial so I still feel a bit like a beginner myself. I model, texture, rig, animate and render all the 3D stuff in Maya, I composite the layers in After Effects, and I create the textures in Photoshop. My main advice would be get hold of Maya if you can and just play with it... a lot. Get stuck in and try a few tutorials but have fun. Thanks again.

:o)

Gary

[odetomy]

Looks like you're working on a cool animation. I can't wait to see it. I would really like to see more animations such as what you're doing and the whole spooky genre come to the big screen. A 2 hour, somewhat scary, autumn-ish animation with awesome backgrounds and settings would be right up my alley. I consider myself an artist and have created a few silly, little animations by hand and loaded them up on Youtube a few years ago. I just wish I could do this kind of stuff! You rock!!

[smartbluecat]

@odetomy Thanks very much! Yeah it's something I really want to see too... This is gonna take a while another year and a half at least. An update is coming soon.

:o)

So much work to be done. Better get back to it. Thanks for watching.

:o)

Gary

[11kingsmash1]

gary gary it's alistair

[smartbluecat]

Hey, man. Cheers for stopping by.

:o)

Have a great weekend.

Gary

[itsmedezzidancewierd]

Good luck! I know you will do well!!!

[lirechka]

A very good luck to you Gary! Your project is going to be great!

[kathmandau]

@smartbluecat Thank you, Gary, for your insight.

Excellent work, teaching yourself...Bravo!

CG

[smartbluecat]

Cheers! I still have sooooo much to learn.

Thank you for stopping by.

:o)

Gary