CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Any filmmakers out there?

That would be me.

Orange Kitten Productions

Sweet, so what kind of films do you want to make?

Btw, "Orange Kitten Productions" is a link to his site and you can see his work from there.

I'm a video editor/producer, but I'm more in the advertisement/information branch rather than films.

I make simple stuff (requireing as few props as possible with little to no additional cost) occasionally. I am a fan of large cameras because they make it easier to keep steady without a tripod, and I am a firm believer in "Effort, not money" to make a good production. You don't need a million dollars to setup a scene where someone talks to someone else in a park on a bench. As long as you don't require special costumes (what's wrong with showing what people actually wear?) or props (a family drama need not include a 19th century style machine or a statue of Marduk...) or even locations (sorry, disneyland is out...) then you can make something good for cheap based entirely on talent rather than budget. You can make an excelent movie for under 5000 dollars, though "film" is generally restricted to those shot on film and not on "video" so I would not fall into that classification.

I love telling stories, and I like different ways of doing it. I plan on working on Video Games, and that would just be an extension of my desire for different methods of storytelling (as for those of you that follow Nintendo's old copout "If I wanted to watch a movie, I'd put in a video tape" you can stick your head in a beehive for all I care) and experience in movie direction should help a lot.

P.S. I also would like to make something computer animated. A full story, like "The Ruum" maybe... That was always my favorite short story.

No offense, OK, just thought I'd warn people there's nudity in at least 1 of his videos (I just watched the "Strange case of anime" video) It's good to warn people on the page, since you can get in a bit of trouble from your ISP if you get reported on this (not warning anyone about nudity.)

It is both very quick and not that noticable, but it is there. (it's a shot from Goldenboy)

thorn1ofmany wrote:Sweet, so what kind of films do you want to make?

I'm a fan of almost every genre, so whatever film I'm working on doesn't really matter to me. Spoofs/slapstick comedies are always fun to make, and action films are great with the effects.
The last short video I worked on, "Waiting for Death", the crowd was on the ground laughing. It by no means is a great script, but it was so "out there" and odd it got a great response. That and having 2 of my AMVs in the finals at Anime Expo, with a crowd of over 2,500 is a feeling that gives incentive to make more films.

Bobtheduck wrote:No offense, OK, just thought I'd warn people there's nudity in at least 1 of his videos (I just watched the "Strange case of anime" video) It's good to warn people on the page, since you can get in a bit of trouble from your ISP if you get reported on this (not warning anyone about nudity.)

It is both very quick and not that noticable, but it is there. (it's a shot from Goldenboy)

Ah yes. The weird thing was, I never even noticed that you could see the nudity in that shot until way after I had already made that video, and I had seen Golden Boy many times. Why I never noticed, I have no idea. But I figured it was so insignificant, I wouldn't bother with it.
I doubt I would get in trouble with my ISP. It is so small, and it's not in any pornographic manner.
If I was to get in trouble for anything, it would be for copyright violations for the use of the music and/or video footage.
But I wouldn't get in trouble for that either because I'm not making any money off it. I own all the dvds for the footage, and cds for the music. I can do whatever I want with it, so long as I'm not making profit.

Gypsy, I can't stop laughing at the Azumanga-Daioh gif in your signature lol
It's the simple things that keep you laughing for hours. Go Osaka!

To Bobtheduck: I just read your take on Christian video games and all I can say is WOW! Your thoughts on games are my exact thoughts on movies. My whole reason for joining this website was to meet people like you who want to communicate Christ to the world in creative and entertaining ways. Your focus on the importance of good story is a step in the right direction. I would highly suggest that you read a book called Story by Robert McKee. It is the bible of storytelling. This is my favorite quote from it.

“In 388 B.C. Plato urged the city fathers of Athens to exile all poets and storytellers. They are a threat to society, he argued. Writers deal with ideas, but not in the open, rational manner of philosophers. Instead, they conceal their ideas inside the seductive emotions of art. Yet felt ideas, as Plato pointed out, are ideas nonetheless. Every effective story sends a charged idea out to us, in effect compelling the idea into us, so that we must believe. In fact, the persuasive power of a story is so great that we may believe it’s meaning even if we find it morally repellent. Storytellers, Plato insisted are dangerous people. He was right.â€

Do any of you work with after effects? Can you do that effect in Silent Hill 3 with the nurses hanging above valtiel (the phasing thing)? I need to learn to do that when I get after effects... I know so many things I could do with it.

Sorry, unfortunately I've had no experience with after effects, but I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

I know After Effects, but I don't the scene you are talking about (I've never played Silent Hill 3)

well, it's in the opening... You'll see a thing turning valves with these... legs hanging above it. The legs are not part of the picture exactly... They look like flames, sorta, but more solid... Less solid than the monster thing, but more solid than flames...

After Effects is more of a compositing program than creating something from nothing. So if you can create arms or animate a 3d object in Maya or 3d Studio Max, you can take that and put it into After Effects and add it's environment and people/things to interact with it.

Once you get an object, you can do whatever you want with it

Orange Kitten wrote:After Effects is more of a compositing program than creating something from nothing. So if you can create arms or animate a 3d object in Maya or 3d Studio Max, you can take that and put it into After Effects and add it's environment and people/things to interact with it.

Once you get an object, you can do whatever you want with it

Well, that effect wasn't something from nothing. I know the first step to achieve that effect, and that's an outline like in photoshop. It would have to be a motion tracking outline, and I think it could be done with one image by splitting it into layers, or even NOT splitting it in layers.

But I'm much mo

Well...I myself work with films...or rather music videos, at the moment. I make anime music videos at www.animemusicvideos.org. So far I've found just one other Christian video maker on that site, but he still makes some pretty nice videos. I try to use the videos which I make as witnessing tools--making a nice, solid video that people would enjoy, then at the end putting a Bible verse. I'm relatively new to there, but I've been working with videos and films since before high school.

I'd like to get back into normal film-making, but unfortunately I don't have the tools necessary with which to do so. In high school, I did a variety of videos for different occasions, using the equipment in the tech club room. Bu~t now I just use digital anime footage and my computer. I probably could start doing films and whatnot if I had a digital camera...or at least one that didn't cost $30 from Walmart.... ^_^;;

I am new to this forum; in fact this is my very first posting. The thread topic peaked my interest.

I have been producing commercials, documentaries, docu-dramas for about 11 years. Currently I work for a television ministry as Director of Digital Post Production. I have moved more into the corporate side of our company but I still get the opportunity to produce and be creative…which is what I LOVE to do!!! I believe that is what I was created to do.

This is a basic list of my arsenal of toolsets:

Design Software:
Adobe PhotoShop

Compositing Software:
Adobe AfterEffects
Discreet *flame (learning)

3D Software:
Lightwave (modeling & animation)
Maya (learning)

Editing Software/Hardware:
AVID Media Composer 1000
AVID Media Composer Adrenaline
Final Cut Pro 4 (learning)

I have been an AVID editor since 1993; however, I have recently started learning how to use Final Cut Pro 4 since we are starting to build FCP suites in some areas of our ministry.

Here is a link to my website, please keep in mind I am not a web designer what so ever. My images were created in PhotoShop and are big. If you’re on dial up it may take a while. Like I said, I am not a web designer…

http://www.geocities.com/grafxboy68/

Under the Video Menu there is a link to a short demo reel of some of my work. You will need Real Player and broadband connection to view the reel. I recently completed a documentary about the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China. I returned from Beijing about a month ago completing the Mandarin version that will air through out China.

I have been blessed with the opportunities to travel to China, Hong Kong, India, Philippines and Singapore and have seen first hand HOW HUGE Anime and Manga has impact these countries. There is no limit to the demographics for the audience overall, it is in grained within their culture. I am researching the potential of creating an Anime Series for entertainment as well as an evangelization tool for these countries.

Here are some links that you may or ma not have to copy in paste into your broswer or the Real Player browser.

Demo Reel:

rtsp://159.26.125.65/GRIN/DR.rm

[B]“The Bookâ€

Any filmmakers out there?

Actually, I have edited an done all the copmuter stuff to a 10 minute film. The actors and crew were my brother and my sisters and some friends of them. But the film is not on the internett, and it's in norwegian

I am going to be the computer man in theyr next movie project too...