Coalition of the Willing

Coalition launch event, 30th June at the Richmix in London!

Knife Party — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:58:25 +0000

See the invitation here: http://bit.ly/bWVNYx

60s up to date

Sehsucht - Directed by Mate Steinforth — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:55:40 +0000

The all new approach is here.

Foreign Office’s wonderfully documented stop-mo shoot at Clapham Road Studios

Knife Party — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:18:33 +0000

http://bit.ly/bV4ews

Foreign Office – Clapham Rd Studios, March 2010

Knife Party — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:14:57 +0000

Stills from Foreign Office’s wonderfully ambitious stop-motion shoot at Clapham Rd Studios, March 2010:

Knife Party & Cristobal Infante introduction WIP

Knife Party — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:49:13 +0000

Here’s a couple of still from our introduction section for Coalition. It all needs development; background, dome renders, comp and grade, but the idea is starting to come together.

wave 4 goes live, with b rilliant new sections by Parasol Island, Dom del Torto, Adam Gault & Stefanie Augustine and Bran Dougherty-Johnson

Knife Party — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:42:33 +0000

http://bit.ly/bDYb6V

We are thrilled to bits with the fantastic article written about #coalitionfilm by Jesse Ashlock for GOOD:

Knife Party — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:47:36 +0000

http://bit.ly/9fKRQB

Thiago Maia posts fantastic WIP for his sections of #Coalition of the willing

Knife Party — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:44:50 +0000

http://bit.ly/a00XoW

Behind the Scenes

Thiago Maia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:23:16 +0000

Job done and I want to say thanks to Simon for inviting me to make part of this amazing project!

I tried to select some pictures to show the WIP and give a bit more of the behind the scenes of my sections.
I had posted the final tree, but I thought to show how the tree was made. In this first picture you can see the aluminium wire twisted with the mini lights in place and in the second picture you can see how I was planning the size of the islands where I was going to put them, but I changed their place in the end.

Some images of the islands in place on the turn table that I built. You can notice the islands are on top of a black acrylic sheet and later I added hair gel to give a bit of texture and look a bit more like water.

A top view of the islands. In this first picture you can see the wire rigging used to control all the lighting, and on the left side there is the little device that I used as a dimmer for the little lights.
In the second picture I have all the islands finished and I was testing the lights on the face house.

I want to show the set up that I used to film all my stop-motion. It was a simple set up with my laptop running Dragon, a tripod and one light with some blue gel.

Just some stages of the tree scene, and now the black acrylic has hair gel on it, you can see the texture on the reflection

The final ruler island and a close up to see the details of people inside the ruler house.

And in this last picture, I wanted to show the size of my set compare with a human.

I will upload a time-lapse of some part of my work in the next few days.

Mighty Nice: COTW titles update

Knife Party — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:25:39 +0000

Darren and the crew at Mighty Nice in Sydney continue to progress the titles production for Coalition of the willing. To represent the eclectic array of film making techniques within COTW, Mighty Nice have developed distinctive textures for each of the blocks that make up part of their constructivist titles design. Textures represent the organic materials used by collaborators like Loyalkaspar, through to more clean and glassy textures echoing more CG approaches and paint on glass techniques. Blocks will also be bound together by organic threads that will pull objects together. We can’t wait to see more!