Chronicles: Prague Preview Stills

It's growing more epic with each passing day.
For more info visit:
http://www.chronicles-app.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ChroniclesApp

- MK

Chronicles WIP

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

Stay tuned :-)
MK

New Portfolio

I have a new online portfolio, check it out.

- MK

My Latest Projects

Busy times, busy times... I've been working on a few projects these past few weeks (months) and it was mostly painting. Great practise for me, though I'd really like to get back to film work again. No matter, here I'm sharing some of them with you. Hope you like them.

This is a Star Wars artwork for Ki-Djowac, a client from Belgium.

This is a collection of images from a certain project I'm working on with a friend of mine. Stay tuned for more.


That's it for now. Hope to get back to AotF soon...

MK

NEWZ

In the precious free time I so long to have now I managed to paint several digital and matte painting studies. By no means masterpieces, but it was great fun making them.

City of Primos * Work in Progress

Futurisk

Misty Tower

Invasion

That's all from me for some time.
- MK

I'm back

Quite a lot has happened since my last post. In fact, Ive decided to delete this site some time ago...fortunately there's a great feature on blogger.com called Undelete blog...Why I deleted it? I thought I'm going to make my own website or portfolio of some sort, but in the end...eh, you know, no time. Well, so here I am, blogging again. And I have some great news indeed.

Let's start with some pictures. Lets say Ive learned quite a lot of CG lately, Maya, to be accurate. It's a great piece of software, so filled with possibilities that I sometimes feel overwhelmed. Modeling, texturing, dynamics, particles, fluids, animation - tons and tons of great stuff. I'm just a humble beginner, but Ill definitely try to improve.

Here are some images I've made. It's a combination of Maya and After Effects mostly.








One more thing. I thought that knowing After Effects makes me quite a good VFX guy. Well, no the case. As Ive found out, After Effects is a software great for creating title sequences, flashy graphics, maybe even some effects...but its not for compositing. And since compositing is the main part of VFX guys daily work, I think I have a lot to learn.

At least I have Nuke now...

- Martin

The Way of Compositing

I thought I could share some images from Threads of Destiny and describe the basic compositing procedure. So, here we go, compositing in five steps.

1. Prepare for keying
Removing tracking points, deartifacting etc.

2. Keying

3. Preparing Background
Adding dynamic elements, filters, shadows etc.

4. Matching Foreground with BG
Color correcting, better edge croping and bluring, lightwraping etc.

5. Final Render
Some interactive lightning is always a good thing.


- Martin

Good News

I've been gone now for a few days, shooting a promo for this lovely group of hotels. It's been a great experience for me, to work with professionals from Video Art Production. And I also earned money to buy a new laptop. I'll probably switch to Apple Mac.

And one more good news - in a recent post I've posted trailer for a fanfilm called The Hunt for Gollum. The film is out now and it's brilliant indeed. Watch it here and visit the homepage.

The Hunt For Gollum (HD version)
Uploaded by HuntForGollum - Check out other Film & TV videos.

- Martin

Updated Showreel

While some of the shots in the original showreel I posted sometime ago were a bit too old and did not really represent my current FX skills, I decided to post here an updated version. With the never before seen footage from Threads of Destiny. Enjoy.


Martin Klekner Showreel 2009 from CamperCz on Vimeo.

And I also must post a beautiful AUDI commercial I found yesterday on http://motionwroks.com. Great idea, superb execution, beatiful motion graphics.



- Martin

Peek at Threads of Destiny

As promised, I post here an image from Threads of Destiny. This is one of the first shots I've composited, featuring three main actors.

Before:


After:


- Martin

Working on Threads of Destiny

I am proud to announce that I've become a part of the Threads of Destiny postproduction team as a 2D compositor. This independent movie from Sweden is currently one of the most anticipated Star Wars fanfilms in production.

I myself was a fan of this project since 2006, so having a chance to participate is like a dream come true for me. And it definitely is a great challenge and test of my VFX skill also. I'm sure I'll learn a lot.

The story:
"100 years after "Return of the Jedi" the Jedi order and the Republic are once again active. The planet Coreign produces a special ore that can power an entire city. But the Skenvi empire is interested in its potential for supreme spaceship armor." (From threadsofdestiny.net)


Star Wars: Threads of Destiny trailer.

Watch the trailers on the homepage, read the info there and stay tuned for more.

- Martin