SKULL ISLAND

The advent of digital SLR cameras and mini Dv camcorders, coupled with post production software packages like After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Shake, has enabled independent novice and professional film makers to make polished short and medium length films, on a modest budget, and show them to a world-wide audience via the Internet.

"Skull Island" is a short proof-of-concept stop-motion animated puppet film, inspired by story ideas from "King Kong," and shot using a Sanyo ID Shot mini DV camcorder. The individual frames were captured as TIFF resolution stills, uploaded to a G5 Mac, assembled into QuickTime movies and loaded into Apple Shake for finessing and compositing.

All the post-production work was handled by Greg Bossert, and without his hard work and knowledge, the film would not look, or sound, as good as it does.

If things work out as planned, I hope to make more animated short films in this series, and continue my reinterpretation of scenes from the classic that inspired me and so many others in the field of motion picture visual effects.

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