Star Wars: Armies of the Fallen May the 4th Teaser

I have not posted anything in a very long time. Well, now I am correcting it - I am back on track with the production of Star Wars Armies of the Fallen. And to celebrate the national Star Wars day, I decided to release this May the 4th sneek peak. 

- MK

Chronicles: Prague Final Trailer

I have been busy. Very very busy. I still am, in fact, only tiny bit less these days. However, I decided to stop being negligent to this blog of mine and post a rather huge news.

CHRONICLES: PRAGUE is finally finished and ready to be released. The official release date is set to the 29th of November, exactly 635 years after the death of Charles IV., the story's main protagonist.

http://chronicles-app.com/
http://www.facebook.com/ChroniclesApp
http://twitter.com/chroniclestour



Hope you like the trailer and rest assured, it all looks well in the App. If you want to support us, check the App Store on November 29 and buy it! We would appreciate your support a lot... - MK

Chronicles WIP

A first picture from a secret project I have been working on for the last several months.

Stay tuned :-)
MK

Armies of the Fallen Facebook Page

We just launched the Facebook page for Armies of the Fallen. The teaser is coming in a few weeks.

Stay tuned!

MK

AotF: Digital Double

I didn't have time to work on AotF this week, but at least I managed to comp this first image of Fallen's digital double I'm going to use in a lot of scenes where it'd be otherwise impossible to film the actor.
I think it's about 95% of the film quality, I finally tried out all the techniques I wanted and am fairly sure about the pipeline. Now it's just about finishing and then animating it - which will be another huge milestone in the whole process.

I made some changes to Travis' design, mainly to make the mask more different from Revan's.

Fallen's digital double CG test

- MK

Shadows of the Past VFX Breakdowns

This video was completed a few weeks ago but now it's finally online. Enjoy.



-MK

DailyMotion becomes official partner for SotP!

Dailymotion has become our official partner. This means we won't be releasing our film on Youtube but exclusively on DM.
If you're looking forward to it, just check http://www.dailymotion.com/MartinKlekner on April 30.


Star Wars Shadows of the Past Teaser
Uploaded by MartinKlekner. - Classic TV and last night's shows, online.

Oh and by the way, the film might be done in a week. Stay tuned!

- MK

SotP Rotoscoping done

THE ROTOSCOPING IS DONE! The 100 shots of the fight sequence are now ready...uff, still can't believe it. We were rotoing blades as well as the whole actors - wait for the film to know why. Special thanks goes to all the people who've helped me - Daniel Maher, Cornell Herg, Mark Evans, Lukas Maly. Now it's just a matter of finishing the film & the soundtrack + adding sound effects.




- MK

Threads of Destiny Inside Look

New inside look for this upcoming fanfilm full of stunning visuals is released. It's great to see how talented artists there are on the project. And hey, there are 4 of my shots too!



- MK

Shadows of the Past Lightning

There is going to be a lot of lightning in Shadows of the Past. In fact, I don't think there's ever been so much lightning and so much different lightning-Force combinations in any other Star Wars fanfilm.



-MK

Shadows of the Past Teaser 2!

This a second teaser for our upcoming Star Wars fanfilm Shadows of the Past, full of new and updated shots.
For the first time in the history of our studio we have our own music track, created by Tomas "Meridius" Zemler. If you like it, be sure to visit his web http://meridius.ic.cz/
The film is about to be released on January 2010.



- M.

SotP Update...Rendering in Progress

These days are full of rendering, compositing and finalizing the CG shots. Actually I must say Im pretty happy with the way they come out. Seeing it on a picture is one thing... watching it move is completely different. There's still a lot of work ahead though. After I finish CG shots, I must also finish the final cut. Then our composer's going to start his job, lightsaber artists will begin the often tedious but necessary rotoscoping and meanwhile I shall work my way through stabilizing, color correcting, adding fancy effects and removing ugly objects and even uglier graffiti. And then there's of course the sound editing - but Ive collected a wonderful gallery of great sci-fi sounds, so I'm pretty confident at that.

Uff, it's going to be a hell of a lot of work these next two months. But I have a good feeling that it's going to be worth it. But enough talk, here's an image from the updated Striker flyby shot...



Two more things. First, Daniel Maher, our lightsaber artist from the Power of the Dark Side is back and he'll be making the lightsabers move and shine. Great news indeed.

Second, we have a new fan page on Facebook. So if you have your account, be sure to favor us with your fan subscription...

- M.

First fully CG shot

This is a pic from my first fully CG shot I'm making for a short film. The models were made in Maya, textured by using Photoshop, brought together in After Effects.



- Martin

Battle Charge figured out

I took FXPHD 301 Guerilla After Effects techniques course and finally figured out how were the visual effects for BBCs documentary Attila the Hun done. What more, based on the tutorial and with the help of provided footage i made my own version of battle charge - and found out how to make armies in Maya, After Effects and PFTrack. Great, it was totally worth the money.



So...how about some Lord of the Rings now, huh?

- Martin

Shadows of the Past new pics

I've finally finished my next starship. It needs some extra touches, but I'm quite satisfied with the result. I also tried to add some Knoll Light Factory effects. I'm not sure all those lens effects are realistic, but I like how they look.



- Martin

Shadows of the Past teaser

And now, the main event of my summer...We've successfully shot our sequel for Power of the Dark Side. It's called Shadows of the Past, it's darker, bigger, more action filled and more in every possible aspect...Well, yeah, I'm thrilled indeed. Just have a look at the teaser.









The shooting of the first film took us 5 hours. The shooting of this one a week. The lightsaber fight in the first one is 1 minute long. Now it's 8 minutes. Plus there are big space ships floating through the space, futuristic cities being destroyed by orbital cannons, spacefighters everywhere and one young Sith tormented by his dark past.

Stay tuned for the whole movie. Coming this year.

- Martin