http://vancehartwell.com/blog The Ramblings of One Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:24:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today was the first day of one of our biggest effects sequences. Production has had it scheduled to only take two days. We've told them we think that it would take more than that. Well, today they learned why we were saying that. They didn't start shooting with us until ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=373 I really enjoyed today. I slept in till 8:50am. That gave me just enough time to shower and get up to the spa to get my free 0ne-hour massage. It was a Swedish massage and it was great. It's a Thai massage place in the hotel, up on the rooftop with ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=358 I actually got to sleep in today as I wasn't being picked up to go to set until 9:30am. Unfortunately I had a lousy night. I finally got my first ever case of the shits while overseas. I kept waking up to "take care of business"! I think it was ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=364 These three days were our first with any of the full mechanical puppets. Again, it went well and a lot smoother than I expected. We (the Legacy crew) had various frustrations that we were dealing with. Most of it just differences in the way they shoot, their lack of experince ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=354 This was our first big fx sequence for the film and it went really well. Yes, there were a few hiccups bit nothing major. Shankar, Srini and the others were very happy with it. The art director, Sabu, saw video playback of some of it and couldn't figure out how ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=350 Today was just totally laid back. We had it off and I just hung out in my room until about 1:15pm. I watched some movies, Skyped with my family and then ate lunch. I spoke with Anthony, Dave M and Kan and they were feeling lazy too. After lunch Kan and ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=345 Today was interesting. We ended up making two new effects the director wanted and shot one of them. Figures that our first shot is one we never built, knew about or even existed 4 hours before! The production had to get us a new refrigerator 'cause the first one ended up ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=342 I actually got to paint today. I just had to add some red to the heads to get the colour to match the makeup. We then started putting the wigs on and doing the hair work. The top production people came by today to check everything out. Shankar seemed really happy ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=339 The van showed up at 8:15am, even though we weren't scheduled to leave until 8:30am. We got to the studio and unpacked the crates. Some things had jostled loose but no major damage. We got set up as best we could, but it took a while for some tables to be ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=336 Today didn't start out so well. The production van was supposed to be at the hotel at 9am. At 9:15 I called Parthi and he said it was running late and would be here at 9:30. At 10 I called again. He said the driver went to the wrong hotel. ... http://vancehartwell.com/blog/?p=312