Gladiator (2000) Film Study

Film study of the opening of "Gladiator" (200) directed by Ridley Scott.

12.40 Minutes / 260 shots  Great fun to do, but also it would be easier to do this via a dvd or QuickTime file. Especially the second sequence, "The Battle," was hard to get all the shots from the stream.

Breaking My Headphones...

I cannot count how many pairs of headphones I have gone through in my lifetime, not even counting the pairs I have lost, stepped on....almost like sunglasses.

Somebody is looking at you...

Curious George

Wearing my Curious George hoodie today. M.E. + H.A. Rey, German asylum to the US some time ago.

Knight Rusty Party!

The second film is out, time to party.
Those are a few placeholders for the final sequence in the film. I don' remember exactly now from watching the film at the premier, but I think it got cut.

Monte Minions Commercial

I was preparing some work samples and found a few storyboards for a quick commercial I did last year. My son was very excited, that it featured the Minions characters and then very disappointed, that I did not have to draw the minions at all (clips from the original movie trailer were used).

My Lego Friends in Incredible India

Two years ago I spent a couple of month drawing and supervising the storyboards for an original LEGO friends movie (which is coming out on DVD in the US today). During that summer the project brought me to London in the UK and Mumbai, India. London actually seemed to me much more crowded and busier than Mumbai.

We had a small Preproduction Crew over in Mumbai, where we did the first draft of the movie. Looking at the trailer I can see that a few of the early shots have made it, although lots of the story changed (you can see the trailer here http://bit.ly/1P2mrxI )

I also got to see a tiny bit of the surroundings and culture while I was there despite being in Mumbai during the monsoon season.  I will never forget all the happy faces walking through the rain.

On my last day the in-house story-board crew gave me a this framed picture. It shows my indian Lego friends. Very cool!!!  We had a great little crew over there. And there were many more artists and story-boarders helping out also during the tight preproduction schedule. Thanks again for all your hard work and hope to see you again soon!

Cowboys and Aliens

Matthew Luhn mentioned in one of his workshops that you should not mix to genres like a western and scifi to create a good story.  He used Cowboys & Aliens as an example. Still I really liked the film for many reasons.

For study purposes I recently thumbnailed out the opening sequence of the film. It is a great little piece of filmmaking.