So far the mother of all special effects - a ~15 second sequence in which Cliodhna's astral body falls tumbling through otherworldly clouds.
Took us three days of trying out and me an unholy amount of time to arrive at a viable workflow, which in the end involves four consecutive rendering passes.
Cast and crew (except yours truly behind the camera) for the summer scenes of 'Cliodhna 2 - Truth from Beyond' after shooting a somewhat tricky scene involving coordinated efforts of 2 adults, 3 kids and one horse.
Three month of training finally paid off a bit later - the scene where the panicked pack animal runs alone through the forest worked perfectly on the first take.
You know what the supposedly panicky horse did the first time we tried as a test run to bring it into trot and then let go of the reins? It stopped immediately to have a snack...
There we were, driving to a set I had scouted out a while ago - a beautiful patch of really old forest with a decent road to enable the camera operator to move backwards at decent speed...
Then, actually arriving there, it looked like this:
Can't have been older than a few days... and judging from the diameter of the logs, this really was a very old patch...
Low-level flying — It's all fun and games till someone looses an engine. (Paraphrased from a YouTube video) Improving the Dassault Mirage F1 (Wiki, Forum, GitLab. Work in slow progress)
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up." "Why not?" said Gurder. "Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
Yeah.., Katharina looks at me like WTF, and I just say 'I swear it was forest last time I checked...'
It's a sad fact of forestry that they always cut the nice old patches down... But well, it's practically all forest around us, so we did find some alternative set,
Make sure you don't come in November/December - it's quite awful, rainy and dark all the time... Winter is generally dark, but really most of the time like a story-book winter, and summer is just awesome (but won't last much longer for this year...)
Post-processing for the second episode is done, DVD cover artwork is done, all that remains is DVD menu structure and subtitle translations. Thus... we have a release date!
Outstanding, this episode really held my interest. Somehow I didn't see this "new post". I didn't know this was released until I saw your post about AI and went to the website.
Anyway, great job. It was really enjoyable to watch! Left me wanting more.
The advantage of having time, but no serious budget - we can wait till there's real fog and the light is like we need it. This morning in the swamp - terrific footage for the 4th part of the series.