Into The Deadlights review

I had no idea this film was making the blog review rounds. Here's a really good, long review and critique of my short film 'Into the Deadlights':

Into The Deadlights review.

And you can watch the actual film here:

Into the Deadlights from Kyle Pittman on Vimeo.

Space Stallions

Best indie animation I've ever seen.

Space Stallions from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

Captain Awesome

More great indie animation. Gross out, John Kricfalusi style.

Blumation

Introducing Blubu: BLUMATION (!) (oh yeah) (!)

Lou Scheimer

"I asked him, Mr. Lance did you really like my portfolio? Your portfolio? I like you because you look like my brother Michael. I spent four years at Carnegie Tech and I get a job for looking like somebodies brother." -Lou Scheimer

Animation reel

Latest Animation reel. Cleaned and tightened it, added some footage that I forgot to include.


Kyle Pittman Animation Reel from Kyle Pittman on Vimeo.

Francine

Good Lord Francine, don't you know it's bad luck to let retarded people into your home?

Beyond The Black Rainbow

I was excited about Prometheus..... I'm WAY more excited about this now. I didn't realize this wasn't some lost early 80s sci-fi classic until about half way through when I noticed the date in the description.

Stanley Kubrick

"I sent a second-unit camera crew to Glacier National Park to shoot the title backgrounds but they reported that the place wasn't interesting. When we saw the test shots they sent back we were staggered. It was plain that the location was perfect but the crew had to be replaced." -Stanley Kubrick on the opening titles for The Shining

Put that cookie daawn

Digital sculpt of Arnold Schwarzenegger that I was doing from scratch, using reference photos. Was looking way better than this but then ZBrush crashed and the file was corrupted. :( All that remains now is this screenshot I managed to take in one of the earlier phases.

Jodorowsky's Dune

The greatest film never made! Excited to see the documentary about this mythical failure. If you're not familiar with it: It was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), script written by Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead), starring Orson Welles and Salvador Dalí, artistic design by H.R. Geiger, Chris Foss and Moebius, and a soundtrack by PINK FLOYD. Also, it was to be 14 hours long. They spent 2 million dollars and two years developing it without shooting a single frame and then it was canceled.

Lily C.A.T.

Couldn't find a legit copy in the UK but finally found a torrent that is working so I'm psyched. Was about to resort to the SciFi Channel taped VHS rip on Youtube, but this will be much better. First anime I saw when it was a kid and I hope it's still as badass even though now I know it's a complete rip off of Alien and The Thing, but c'mon there's an evil cyborg cat in it....

Avatar

Attempted to watch Avatar for the first time. I wasn't missing much. LOVED the CG for the Na'vi (or however you spell it) but the creature animations were shit and the story was beyond predictable and generic. Add stock mainstreamy acting and a ridiculous runtime (the version I tried to watch was around 3 hours). If this movie had been made anyone else, with slightly worse effects and wasn't in 3D, it would have been a massive flop.

Editing reel

My new editing reel.

Hunger Games

I liked the Hunger Games better when it was called Battle Royale, before they watered it down and Harry Potter'd the hell out of it.

Tintin

The animation/motion capture in The Adventures of Tintin was seriously the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time. If there was any flaw it's that I kept marveling over how real parts of it looked and lost focus of the story, which wasn't too bad either. All in all it was fun, looked great and was the best thing Spielberg's done in a long ass time. Avatar may have established the technology, but it was a shitty movie. Tintin looks great and kept me watching till the end, which these days is rare.

VHS

I WANT MY VHS TAPES BACK.

3D

Been working on Cinema 4D and made this here head.

SNAPSHOT micro-site

The SNAPSHOT micro-site has officially launched:

Blubufilms.com/SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT

Attempting to move 'Snapshot' into production as my first feature film. Launching a micro-site, in an effort to draw attention and generate some kind of pre-production buzz. Currently seeking partners and participants in this venture. Not much to say about it yet, but hopefully things will run smoothly, until then, dig some musical influence: