I decided to learn something new, so I taught myself how to make a book. Using various scraps and leftovers I had hanging around I made a blank sketchbook for my pal Josh. It certainly isn’t a perfect book, but for a first try I think it turned out really great.
I started editing this before I moved to California, but didn’t have the time to finish it. I’ve slowly chipped away at it, albeit in small chunks, and finally have it finished. Credit goes to Matt Sweat for helping me pick the song. Here’s some of my older ones for convenience.
As an artist, a hobby of mine is to take my old ideas and techniques and revisit them years later just to see what happens. In 2005-2006 I spent a great deal of time on a visual effects shot for a superhero short film “War of the Heroes” here is an attempt a decade later to recreate…
In my early days of using Photoshop (back in version 7.0, before Creative Cloud, before Creative Suite!) I enjoyed the challenge of making pieces of art from scratch. Among my favorites were creating planets and other science fiction landscapes. Here are some other tests but this time in After Effects. AE recipe Planet…
Same cast, same location, 13 years later. Based on our first short film “Demise of the Republic” in 2003 comes this impromptu 2016 remake. We shot this in two half days during my little sister’s wedding while all of us were in town together again. Finally Finished! Please enjoy Demise from 2016! A Look Behind the…
I never found the time to finish this project. Perhaps some day I will start a new one.
I absolutely love the Back to the Future movies and have always wanted the Time Machine, sadly I can’t afford a Delorean at the moment. So, I decided to make one. I’ve wanted to do this for probably 15 years now. I don’t have a real Delorean so for now I will make due with…
I finally bought a 3D printer:) Model used: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:653085 More about the Micro: http://printm3d.com/
How to make an affordable lightsaber? Why a hardware store of course! I walked around the PVC aisle looking for cool pieces and slowly piecing together my own custom lightsaber handle. I took home the handful of plastic parts, screwed them all together, ground off the lettering on the sides, and painted them with some…
Here is a semi Star Wars style spaceship built from scratch. Please excuse the messy workplace, when I get on a roll, that stuff happens… Also, the pink poster paper was left over from some props we build last year, figured it could get put to use as long as there was paint involved;) …
Here it is! The first official Swemsley film of all time! In all of its SD glory! (or grossness… whatever) Our first movie was full of enjoyment and learning. Here is the trailer: And here is the effects shot that started it all:
Back in action! Lethal Abilities is the second official movie my brothers, cousins and I made; (I say second official movie because it was when we started to get serious about making movies. We had been filming ourselves for years: skits, plays, short stories, whatever, but it wasn’t until we had the ability to edit…
I wanted to make some kind of shield, work in wood, and get some new tools. I used this project as an opportunity to do all 3! 🙂 I am a huge fan of The Replica Prop Forum, the creativity in those forums is amazing, so here’s a shout out to all you inspiring people!…
For a class assignment I get to make a mask of some sort. I decided to try Hiccups flight armor from How to Train Your Dragon 2. I started with the helmet. I wanted to do this freehand instead of from a pattern or pep files. Though I am not done yet, I’ve learned a lot.…
It has been more than 10 years since my cousins and I shot our first movie. Who would have guessed that what began as boys, bathrobes, and broomsticks bolting around with a camera, making movies during summer vacation; would become so much more than a hobby. None of us knew what we were doing, but…