So it's been a while since we posted anything on our blog, so here i am ready to dust off all the gathering cobwebs.
I am happy to announce that we are currently hard at work on the second installment of the Adventures of Tea Man series. Expect big things as this next episode promises to be bigger, better and more action packed than Tea Man's first outing.
So why does the next episode promise to be bigger, better and more action packed? Well we learnt a lot during the production process of the first episode but I am always first to comment that it was still a little rough around the edges. One of the things that hindered us was our lack of technical knowledge and the skills need to transfer imagination into digital film. Between finishing the first episode and starting work on the second we took a three month break. What this time allowed us to do was to try out new techniques, experiment with new software packages, think up new ideas and push ourselves beyond what we had learnt first time round. While i don't believe our technical skills aren't 100% perfect, i think we've made a giant leap in the right direction.
So when should you expect to see Tea Man's next adventure? Well all the new things that we have been trying out come at a price. While it took us about four months to create Episode one from start to finish, the second episode will take a little longer. We have already been working on it for about three months and we are only about a third of the way through it. Hopefully it will all be worth it in the end. To borrow the lyrics from a cheesy 90s pop song "Rome wasn't built in a day".
Anyway we'll keep you posted on how it comes along. Expect to see a small trailer nearer the release of episode 2.
Hello everyone. We've just created a fan page over on Facebook to help try and promote our videos as well as another place for us to keep people updated on our latest news.
So finally after three months we finally got round to finishing episode one. Above you will find the fruits of our labour.
This is the story of Elliot Grey, a small time journalist that leads a secret double life. When Elliot drinks a cup of tea an amazing transformation occurs. Elliot is... TEA MAN. Saving the world one brew at a time.
The first episode of The Adventures of Tea Man has been slightly delayed, this is due to the fact that we decided to merge the scripts for episode one and episode two together. In the mean time we decided to whip up a quick teaser poster.
We should be releasing the first episode in the coming weeks. Xx
Yesterday I noticed my Giant White Knee Tarantula (Acanthoscurria Geniculata) lying on her back getting ready to molt. I discreetly set up my Nikon D40x camera to take photos of her every 40 seconds using a piece of software on my Mac called iStopMotion.
Ok so we are currently working on a new project at the moment titled The Adventures of Tea Man. The project is a super hero parody about a guy who is exposed to a genetically modified blend of tea with radioactive caffeine and becomes TEA MAN! The video is based on my random doodles as well as a photo comic that I started creating a couple of months ago.
We have currently filmed and edited the first two minutes of the first episode and we are happy with the results. When the episode is finished we will post the video on Vimeo, Youtube as well as Facebook.
For a sneak peak here are the first three pages of the photo comic:
Below is a high quality streaming version of The Quarry Child III Trailer, a full HD quality version can be found on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/1270807
This test film is a remake of The Quarry Child III Trailer which we made in 2006, we created it as a test film to try out our new Panasonic HDC-HS9 camera. Whilst we changed most of the locations from the first film, we still managed to get the look and feel of the original trailer... ...all in HD goodness.