Stu Maschwitz’ new DV Rebel’s Guide is chock full of the straight-forward genius that brought us such wonders as Magic Bullet film look and the recent Colorista. But sometimes it’s the little things that make for big happiness. In my case, a lot of the actual content of the Guide is cozy comfort for me; I’ve been a loyal follower of Stu’s Prolost site and a DV rebel myself since...
Here’s the opening cut-scene we produced for American McGee’s “Alice” game. The final trailer came out a bit nicer, I think, but our constraints on the open were rather huge. We had something like a 10-page script worth of information to distill down to a couple of minutes, and a rather meager budget and time-table to boot. So I dreamed up a creative way to tell the story mostly through...
This was one of my favorite pieces I directed while at LittleBeast. Matt (my producer/friend/partner) and I had met producer R.J. Berg a year before, producing cinematics for his game Future Cop: L.A.P.D.; now he was gearing up for a wicked, twisted fairy tale based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Coincidentally (or not, depending on your take), I had been in early development on a twisted Alice tale myself. Mine...