This is a attempt to show some of my work and methods through a film about a cute little spirit living in a tiny bungalow by a Chinese Ghost City.
The background of the construct:
Despite the fact that The Great Leader Chairman Mao banned religion in China fifty years ago, most Chinese are still very religious when it comes to honoring their long dead ancestors. It's part of the Chinese tradition to believe in ghosts – a five thousand year old custom of the Taoist culture.
(The Spirits of the Dead are not something to be trifled with – so what happened with chairman Mao's spirit when he died? Well, that part of the story is in another chapter.)
The construction, the photo renderings and the videos are all created with SH3D using various techniques, for instance by using semi-transparent gradients as lens filters.
Example:
Screen-shot:
Rendered without filters.
Rendered with one filter
Rendered with two filters
The video is here, unfinished and unreleased, and VERY compressed (1.5 Mbps. The final copy will be 8 Mbps when (and if) released on youtube ):
https://vimeo.com/168281964
The password is: sh3d-24
And choose HD and fullscreen:
The question is: Is this a release candidate for youtube?
This is work in progress, so any remarks and comments are most welcome.
Cec
