Black Shard Studios (originally Black Shard Entertainment) was formed in 1996, originally for the purpose of creating computer games. Unfortunately, it was about this time that video games were being recognized as a lucrative business into which one could pour virtually unlimited amounts of money, and a graphical revolution was taking place. As reality quickly squelched all hope of creating a viable start-up in the gaming business, the group dwindled from its original five members to three in 1998, and then all but vanished by 1999, taking its sole creative endeavor to the grave with it.
Since that time, there has been a revolution of a different kind in cinema. As digital technology has gotten more and more powerful, digital video has brought many of the tools of filmmaking within the reach of the average person.
By 2001, Black Shard Studios has been reborn as a video production house and special effects studio. The studio has created effects for Dreamstalker Films, and Waking Planet Studios, and assisted in creating a half-hour feature and three short films. Several more projects are currently in the works.
Black Shard Studios credits and filmography:
FAST/FORWARD (2007)
Cinematographer, Asst. Director, Co-editor, Visual enhancement
CUBICELL (never completed)
Dreamstalker Films
Modeler, Visual effects
MARINACCIO WEDDING (2005)
Camera, video editing, image enhancement
GUY FAMILY WEDDING (2004)
Camera, video editing
"TOBY EAT WORLD" music video (2004)
(Watch it here!)
Director, Camera, editor
A GAME OF STAMINA (2004)
Dreamstalker Films
Storyboard artist, animatics, editor, sound
PROOF OF CHAOS (2003)
Waking Planet Studios
Waking Planet official demo
Concept Artist, Modeler
SLAYER WARS (2003)
Dreamstalker Films
Slayer Wars official website
(Trailers are videos 2 and 3 in the video player above)
Co-director, visual effects supervisor, animator, second editor, sound
"DOES GOD EXIST?" debate video (2001)
Camera, video editing
DARK EPIPHANY (2001)
(Video 1 in the video player above)
Director, Producer, Writer, Animator, Composite artist, Editor, Sound
