Music, art, history - particularly ancient history, movies, mythology, fencing, boxing, I'm open to pretty much anything fun.
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Get this video and more at MySpace.comWith the exception of the exceptions of: the actor in the gas mask, a bit of riot footage faked up, and the face of a particular personality everything else is digital. The turn around on this project was tight. There was a week for (story) boards and pre-production. And a week for the actual piece. Which may seem like a lot; however at the time there were at least two other effects being done by the same artist...
Get this video and more at MySpace.comThis one was a working title. It’s an After Effects piece pure and simple. A lot of fun to make. Would have been interesting to have seen it made. M - HH..
Get this video and more at MySpace.comThis is an OLD piece but it was fun do to. The hand in the fridge is real. The fridge is real. I based the effect on an old sideshow gag. It ended up creeping out everyone who saw it...
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Get this video and more at MySpace.comThis is a bit from almost two years ago. Just a gag teaser for Resident Evil: Apocolypse. This one really was done as a joke. Just the same it turned out to be a fun study in rythem and textures.Revenge
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Add to My Profile | More VideosThis was shot at the university during lab hours. The actual effect was produced by hand painting - using a graphics tablet - each lighting stroke. In the original footage submitted the effect required more than 3000 frames to be painted. Following the final cut it was considerably reduced. The bit at the end where the man is gone and his coffe cup tumbles to the floor is an exercise in rotoscoping pure and simple. HH
Assemblage 23, 16 Volt, Android Lust, VNV Nation, Switchblade Symphony, Rasputina, Chemlab, Sisters of Mercy, Covenant, Bauhaus, Ohgr, Orgy, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Rammstein, E Nomine, In Strict Confidence, She wants Revenge, KMFDM, PCP Twins, Combichrist, Velvet Acid Christ, Children of Hate, Skinny Puppy, Architect, Haujobb, Front Line Assembly, Revolting Cocks, Icon of Coil, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Air, Misfits, Hanzel und Gretyl, NIN, Marylin Manson, Ministry, 1000 Homo DJs, Ex Voto, Type O Negative, Electric Hellfire Club, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, The Ramones, The KLF, Juno Reactor, Angels on Acid, Sheep on Drugs, Front 242, Billy Idol, The Birthday Massacre, Carfax Abbey, Corpus Delecti, Delerium, Die Krupps, Pigface, Exit Ophelia, Delerium, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, Decoded Feedback, Gary Numan, Mephisto Watlz, Virgin Prunes, Zeromancer, The Cure, Big Electric Cat, Ego Likeness, Kommunity FK, Kidney Thieves, London After Midnight, Razed in Black, Zombie Girl, The Cruxshadows, Specimen, Theatre of Hate, Genitorturers, Joy Division, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Placebo, Fluke, The Chrystal Method, Massive Attack, Hooverphonic, The Soho Dolls, and a pile more of garage bands and classic rock.
Movies (In no particular Order): Sin City, Leon the Professional, Le Femme Nikita, Kill Bill - I and II, The Fifth Element, Braveheart, Tombstone, Armageddon, LOTR (yes I'm a geek), Se7en, 12 Monkeys, 13 Ghosts, Constantine, Hellboy, The Eighteenth Angel, The Devil's Backbone, Resident Evil I and II, Dawn of the Dead (Remake), 28 Days Later, May, House on Haunted Hill (Remake), The Faculty, Disturbing Behavior, The Crow (The Original Only), Dark City, Donnie Darko, Lost Boys, Sleepy Hollow, Texas Chainsaw (Original and the remake - I liked the Remake better), From Dusk 'Till Dawn, John Carpenter's The Thing, In the Mouth of Madness, Lord of Illusions, Ghost in the Shell, Laputa, Reservoir Dogs, Ravenous, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, The Wedding Singer, From Hell, almost every Jackie Chan movie, The Virgin Suicides, Stay, Romeo and Juliette (Baz Luhrman's), Moulin Rouge, The Count of Monte Christo, Domino, Cowboy Beebop, The Unholy Three, West of Zanzibar, While the City Sleeps, London After Midnight, The Mysterious Doctor X, Mark of the Vampire, The Penalty,and like a couple dozen I can't remember right now.Now for the guilty pleasures: Amalie, Abbott and Costello movies, All the Three Stooges stuff, the Marx Brothers, Scooby Doo, Fright Night, Almost all of the old B Horror movies, Dead Alive, Escape from New York, Tenchi, R.O.D. the OVA, The Audition, Castle Cagliostro, anything by Miazaki, Ranma 1/2, Munster go Home, Shawn of the Dead, The Lethal Weapon Movies, The Notebook, The Harry Potter movies, The Blade Movies, you get the idea.
I don't watch much television. The Munsters, Scooby Doo (say what you like, I like it), X Files, Twin Peaks, Ghost Hunters, Adult Swim, Inuyasha, Hmmm.. I gotta think on this. I do miss the late night horror hosts! what ever happened to the Midnight Creature Double Feature!?
For now I'll go with authors rather than just titles: H.P. Lovcraft's work, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Cain, Jules Verne, Shakespeare, and Milton. Paradise Lost is one of my most beloved books! I'm Russian so the host of Russian authors. If you haven't read Gulag Achapeligo you should! Dante, Socrates, Aristotile, Jung, Confucious, Lau Tzu, Sung Tsu. You get the idea.