nathan hackett

I have been trying a few new tutorials and styles recently to help me get faster at photoshop and better at design.

This is a simple design i made last night for fun… I think I will do more to it soon, but for now… meet the Lantastic

i finally have an IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3644965/

Spike Jonze talks about the faces for where the wild things

http://www.awn.com/articles/article/getting-wild-about-facial-animation

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet creates a stunning new film with the new Canon 1D Mark IV shot at ISO 6400.

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/Laforet-Videos/Nocturne-Canon-1DMKIV-Video/10024122_sqhwE#686345820_EeDCa

where the wild things are
review…

so i have been waiting for this since the first sniff of it.  i remember dave telling me that it was going to be a movie when i was still living in dutton park and we all thought we should try out cause between matty, lil’ boob, dave and me, we WERE the wild things… no make up needed.

the 12.01am showing was packed and although we arrived 30 minutes early, we still got crap seats at the front, which i decided to tell myself were just like imax cause we were so close.  the theatre was filled with young kids, 16-20, unable to drink, half on dates and half dressed as max.  i was the old man at the front who hoped the kids wouldnt ruin my movie and all in all, they didnt….

the story
for a book 10 pages long, they really made a movie out of it.  the story was pretty gripping and really would have been crap if it hadn’t been for max records who plays max.  this kid was perfect.  just enough spunk to cary the movie but just enough realism to make me feel i was there with him.  the movie is funny, sad and all things in between.  i felt that the ending came a bit fast, but to be honest it was good, cause i thought i was half way through when it was finished (it is a normal length film, just under 2 hours).
the cast was perfect and i truly feel that this is our new willow, for the kids that were around for willow.  i am not sure if kids will like it, the humour is great but maybe a bit adult… but all in all… loved.

the music
when i grow up i want to marry karen o.
and this didnt help that addiction.  the music was a perfect compliment to the movie.  i bought the soundtrack.

the vfx
so, this is where i have some small issues.  although the wild things were AMAZING and really felt alive and real, my big issue with the movie was grain.  from shot to shot the grain didn’t match and it really threw me off at times.  the dark scenes go from really large grain to small grain.  like they used two cameras (a 35mm and an hd lets say) and didn’ t match them to each other.  but enough about the grain…
if you cut out the grain issue, the rest was beautiful to me.  the matte paintings, the compositing, all were seamless (although there seemed to be a strange line in the first boat scene… tell me if you see it - on the horizon).

i loved it.

i wanted to love it

and i did

all in all 4 1/2 wild things…