Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Blog, page 260

Attention ILLUSTRATORS & ANIMATORS!Come work with hitRECord...

Attention ILLUSTRATORS & ANIMATORS!

Come work with hitRECord and The Gregory Brothers on a fun new musical animation project!  

We're putting together a new 'Schoolhouse Rock'-style video about your right to record and we're planning to screen it at SUNDANCE! :oD

We're looking for character design, sets, animation, etc!

Check it out and contribute!

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valeob:

hitRECord cupcakes (Taken with instagram)

CUPCAKES! :oD

CALLING ALL ANIMATORS AND ILLUSTRATORS!We are working with The...

CALLING ALL ANIMATORS AND ILLUSTRATORS!

We are working with The Gregory Brothers on a second episode of the HITRECORD classic, They Can't Turn The Lights Off Now! And it's on the books to be screened at Sundance next week!

RE: Lights Off - Episode 2, Visuals

Episode One rallied behind Gay Civil rights, Episode 2 discusses the civil liberty to record Police and Law Enforcement officers throughout the country. Certain states in the USA have actually taken steps to outlaw anyone from photographing and video taping their local law enforcement, a direct slap in face to the First Amendment. 

That's why The Gregory Brothers remixed the "Lights Off" music and wrote a new story with new lyrics and characters that addresses this concern.  What they have made is fucking awesome!

And now it's our turn to start designing and animating the short film. 

Here's what to do:

ILLUSTRATORS -

Design the 3 main characters:

The Kid with the Camera
The Policeman
An Angelic Benjamin Franklin who comes to educate us all

Design Background Settings:

Listen to the song that The Gregory Brothers have contributed and read the script to learn the settings and environments.   
Watch Episode One and School House Rock to get a sense of the style we are looking for.  

Also, it'd be great if you can contribute your character designs along with the limbs, head, and torso seperated, so that animators can have total control and ease while animating. 

Animators - Once we get some good Character and Setting designs, start animating!  But please do it as simply as you can.  The idea is to get this done in 7 days to be screened at Sundance!

Okay, Let's all get to work!

Thanks Again

J  

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Contribue to the Collaboration here!

hitrecord:WHY WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF SOPA: THE MOVIEHere's a...

hitrecord:

WHY WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF SOPA:  THE MOVIE

Here's a really easy-to-understand mini-doc about PIPA and SOPA from New Left Media.

Check it out.

Calling all Graphic Artists, Animators, Visual Effects...

Calling all Graphic Artists, Animators, Visual Effects Artists!

RE: Strawberry Bootlaces Visuals

We are making Strawberry Bootlaces into a short live action animation and guess what? The rotoscoping is already done!

You may or may not know the wonderful piece titled 'Strawberry Bootlaces', written and spoken by Day Glo, . Well, a while back Ozie picked it up and played a beautiful piano score underneath. 

This week, I finished recording the short film, which is me pantomiming the action in front of a green screen, and now it's time to design and animate the world it takes place in.

Here's what to design: 

SETTINGS - The store, the main characters apartment, the parents house.

PROPS- The strawberry bootlaces, the phone, chairs, table, etc. 

OTHER CHARACTERS- The Parents, The Store Clerk

I want all of these graphical elements to be very SIMPLE, BOLD, BRIGHT, COLORFUL, sorta CARTOONY.

Okay, we are going to be screening this at Sundance as well so we have 8 days, we can do it!

Thanks Again

J 

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Contribute to the Collaboration here!

We're an e-book, we're an e-book! :oDDownload at iTunes today!

We're an e-book, we're an e-book! :oD

Download at iTunes today!

Zo came and found me! :O) @ZooeyDeschanel #goldenglobes

Zo came and found me! :O) @ZooeyDeschanel #goldenglobes

Me and Will (Reiser, who wrote 50/50) on our way to Hollywood...

Me and Will (Reiser, who wrote 50/50) on our way to Hollywood Babylon. #GoldenGlobes

Aye Aye Aye!!2 Weeks Til our Sundance Screening!!!TWO more...

Aye Aye Aye!!

2 Weeks Til our Sundance Screening!!!

TWO more weeks to go and there are plenty of things to get done, so keep up the good work everybody!

Thanks and Thanks again, 

 

J

PS — Y'all save some room for Strawberry Bootlaces! :oD

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Find out how to contribute here!

THE REGULARITY #57 (01/12/12)I'm calling ALL ANIMATORS, ALL...

THE REGULARITY #57 (01/12/12)

I'm calling ALL ANIMATORS, ALL GRAPHIC DESIGNERS, ALL RECORDERS… The Regularity is here! Come contribute to our show at Sundance 2012!

Here's what's going on:

ANIMATORS: We need two animated sequences for our short film The Blue Dildo. 

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: Those of you who like to go crazy and get creative with Typography, we have a killer project for you. 

RECORDERS: Come contribute your art and thoughts regarding the idea of Independence for our show at the Mecca of independent cinema in the U.S. 

ALSO: Any of you wonderful 700 people who were at our show on Halloween in NYC, I NEED YOUR FOOTAGE!

Alright we are all in a full swing of production to our show in Park City, Utah, on the 26th! just a couple weeks away.

Thanks Again,

J

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Contribue to any of these Collaborations here!