The Green Ruby Pumpkin

[MiguelOrtega]

Id like to share with you guys a short i been working on, its a very stylized Halloween Story for kids.
Its inspired by the works on Shel Silverstein, Dr Seuss, Charles Addams and Edward Gorey.

IT IS LIVE ACTION, mixed with Cg creatures and 2D animation

Its filled with monsters, and magical places. hope you guys like it

A Making of Showing the Red In Action and VFX breakdowns

It was shot by Michael Epple, I did alot of 2nd unit macro stuff, and the angel shot.. the rest is epple who is great to work with.

 

[Domenic Barbero]

man this is epic. i really enjoyed watching both videos. your post team is really great. production design was top notch. congrats.

 

[Zach Gray]

Impressive. Your level of execution is superb.

 

[Matt Mascheri]

Wow wow wow! Happy Halloween!

 

[MiguelOrtega]

double post sorry

 

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[Vadim Bobkovsky]

I love this so much.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Lots a love and hard work in this. Congrats!

 

[Matt Ryan]

AMAZING! Nice work!

 

[Robert L. Mickles]

Wow! Absolutely amazing. Stunning visuals, flawless animation and compositing. I love Halloween too! Very inspiring, thanks for sharing!

 

[Peter Strietmann]

Damn, boy!

 

[Matt Ryan]

Miguel, How long did the post take on this project once principal photography had finished? Was it done in an at home studio or at a facility?

 

[MiguelOrtega]

hey guys thanks for the support, means alot in this community of artists, this was beyond low budget..every time u see dust its me goign around the house crumpling our cup
coasters adding babay powder and throwing it in the air as the red was rolling..i was always getting yelled at..

watch the behind the scenes, post wise it was 95% all Me and Tran Ma sweating ourselves to death in a room with 7 computers rendering 24 hours a day in a NO ac apt..
NO facility AT ALL... im not sure how long it took because we were working fulltime as we did this at digital domain.
I think we calculated that had we worked this through fulltime it would have taken us 2, maybe 6 months of work.

we got some help on the animation of the characters but we did all the models and textures of the creatures ourselves as well.

 

[Matt Ryan]

hey guys thanks for the support, means alot in this community of artists, this was beyond low budget..every time u see dust its me goign around the house crumpling our cup
coasters adding babay powder and throwing it in the air as the red was rolling..i was always getting yelled at..

watch the behind the scenes, post wise it was 95% all Me and Tran Ma sweating ourselves to death in a room with 7 computers rendering 24 hours a day in a NO ac apt..
NO facility AT ALL... im not sure how long it took because we were working fulltime as we did this at digital domain.
I think we calculated that had we worked this through fulltime it would have taken us 2, maybe 6 months of work.

we got some help on the animation of the characters but we did all the models and textures of the creatures ourselves as well.

Great work Miguel! Love the entire thing. Top notch work. Do you freelance or is everything contracted through DD?

 

[Phil Holland]

Really nice Miguel!

 

[MiguelOrtega]

Great work Miguel! Love the entire thing. Top notch work. Do you freelance or is everything contracted through DD?

thanks again guys..I do SOME freelance but for the most part i left VFX to do my own projects, kinda wanna use that skill to help distinguish my own directing work
...im not one to turn down something cool though...

 

[Eric Z]

Beautiful work, excellent, amazing!!! Bravo.

 

[MiguelOrtega]

I moved to Vancouver and got a tiiiiny apt where i had to finish the film...
this is some shots of the magical garden AKA the 500 sq ft apt in vancouver

the typical shot looked like this

a shot i really loved that got cut...