It took about a half hour today after hearing the announcement of the iPhone3G S to REALLY get hit by the implications that it has for everyone. With it’s ridiculously low price point, this means thousands, if not millions of people will be walking around with digital camcorders, with a decent internet connection, everywhere they [...]

Go Check it out, give me some feedback, a video tutorial is next in the works, all about valuable plug-ins and effects.
See you in a couple of weeks.

This is the “jail” trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s new book, yes, book, The Strain, the first of a trilogy,which traces vampirism from ancient history to modern times through a virus that spreads the strain. Helping del Toro with the crime noir feel of the book is crime writer Chuck Hogan.
The book will be available [...]

To say that I, um idolize, Kyle Cooper, would be a bit off. He’s one of the main influences, inspirations, alright listen, he’s the man, deal with it. Since the opening credits of Se7en, I’ve been obsessed with his work. His companies Prologue and Imaginary Forces are two of the best studios in the business, [...]

So here’s a new thing i’m going to start doing every Friday, or at least try to do. A collection of all the inspiring, amazing videos I’ve found during the week. From MoGraph, to 3D, to lectures, to tutorials, title sequences, Whatever.
Up top you’ll find What’s in the Box, from 2 Dutch Students, one of [...]

Just saw this over at Motionographer. Holy smokes.
Kyle Cooper was involved so yeah, nothing less than astounding. It’s really amazing what just good camera work, some simple clean text and post production color correction can do.

This guy Gary Vaynerchuk’s speech from Big Omaha is pretty awesome. Very honest about who he is and how business should be run.
Definitely lit a fire under my ass to get cracking on the demo reel and start getting it out there and doing what I love so I can take care of my family [...]

Possibly one of the best short films I’ve ever seen. Shot in a single day followed by TWO YEARS of post-production work by Bruce Branit. Simply stunning.

Currently working on a demo reel I can be proud to send around. Still cleaning this up and smoothing it out.

I try to steer clear of political leanings here, but I think it’s pretty apparent to anyone that looks at my work or follows me on Twitter can tell that I’m not exactly “normal”.
Anyways, I’m one of those crazy “conspiracy theorists” who don’t believe the official report on 9-11, that doubts we made it [...]

Here’s a little something I cooked up in After Effects the other day and I thought I’d share.
In the zip file you’ll find the 15 second .mov file [720x480 NTSC default] and the AE project file. Be warned it does use a 3rd party plug-in from our friends over at Trapcode, Trapcode Shine, which is [...]

New video done in After Effects. Enjoy! My tutorial should be coming up soon on www.gomediazine.com so keep a look out!

Thanks to Joseph Nanni we have a new Lovecraftian short film.
A fake (or is it!?) commercial for Elder Sign, to protect you from those bothersome Flying Polyps.
My favorite part is the plumber who is aware of everything. Sold gold.
Nanni’s other film is Casting Call of Cthulhu. Which is fantastic.

So as always I’m looking for work. A little more severe this time. I just got married,and the lady and I are expecting a new little one in the summer so we’re looking for a house to move into.
Any work you could think of I can probably do.
Shoot me an email if you need anything [...]

This is a design that Mike Henderson [AKA Exploding Toes ] and I did for the Emptees Tag Team Tee Off that is going on right now. This is round one, and our topic was Smurfs.
Mike did the original pencils, I digitally inked and painted it.
More process pics can be found at our combined blog [...]

Filmed with the video option on a digital camera.
Motion tracking and effects were done in Adobe After Effects.

This is a simple study of doing an effect of something crawling underneath of skin.
The effect was done entirely done in Adobe After Effects.

New Business Cards!
Printed on ivory laid stock with black thermography.
anyways, I did the scratchy old school comic text along with the weird RE logo.

-V

A new pre-order is up for the Vagina Dentata shirt after selling out of the first run.
$25 anywhere in the US.

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