Another day, another typical job interview at the Umbrella Corporation.
This was another project that I got to do with Cinevore for the Red5 gaming studio’s YouTube channel.
I did all of the cinematography, shooting, sound, editing, and visual effects! I also got a chance to voice two off-screen characters (the Septa/Black Mesa-like warning voice, and Howard, a poor bastard getting torn apart by creatures over the phone)!
Kevin Stahl provided the music, as always!
Doug wakes up one day with a unique problem: he has a dialogue tree. And it’s a vague one.
I was on-set for the visual effects supervision as well as performing all of the post (editing, color, sound design, and visual effects).
This was our first time dealing with footage shot on RED. We kept our entire pipeline at 4.5k resolution.
This project was brought to us by Cinevore Studios. The collaboration was a blast for both of our companies and we look forward to working with them more!
Brian wrote this guitar lick years ago. And it’s awesome. Totally awesome. How could you say this isn’t awesome?
We recorded the main riff and it sat rotting in a backwoods directory on my computer for a few years. At some point in early 2012 I rediscovered it and played it for Brian over the phone. He decided that he’d try to sit down and write some lyrics for it to see if we could give the song a heartbeat.
He banged out all the lyrics in a single sitting. That next weekend we recorded the vocals. After we fooled around with the song form a little bit, we decided we needed a bright, bluesy guitar solo, a very “in the pocket” clean drumbeat, some simple non-showy bass playing, and a subtle organ part for the chorus.
When deciding who to pick for a bluesy guitar solo, we both thought of Mr. Jeff Scull, who came over and did a fantastic job after we fed him a lot of rum… A lot of rum.
The whole idea behind this tune was to respect the groove and respect the space.
Written: Brian Schwarz
Lyrics: Brian Schwarz
Vocals: Brian Schwarz
Guitars: Brian Schwarz
Solos: Jeff Scull
Drums: Chris Potako
Organ: Chris Potako
Bass: Chris Potako
Recording/Mixing/Mastering: Chris Potako
Finished: 2012
BBC.com Front Page – September, 24th 2012
So, I woke up today to an email from the BBC saying that they were using one of my photos on their front page that day. They used my photo “Stone Skipping” for their story “Stone skimming: How to be a champion“. So, I decided to hit up a little Google and see if any of my other photos were used anywhere else. Well, quite a few of them are…
Badger Tsunami & Idryonis Studios has once again completed Project Twenty1! Our entry “Jump Drive” was the first time we’ve worked with outside actors, used a GoPro to film, presented in 2.40:1, tried to film a scene lit only by laptops, among other things.
Update: We’re officially screening as part of the “red” group on September 29th at 1:00 PM!