I am happy to reveal that the second Spider Baby will be played by Hilah Johnson. Hilah is the frontwoman for The Hot as Shits and one of the founding members of the Austin comedy group Big Ol’ Tire Fire. She’s taller than you, funnier than you and she can drink you under the table.
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Craig Staggs of Aphid Animation has been hard at work cranking out concept art for THE SPIDER BABIES. We are going to a series of posters in different styles, one of which will be a limited old-school painted poster. The image above is an early test.
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I am really happy (and relieved) to announce that SHOGO is officially on board as Director of Photography for The Spider Babies. Because of some scheduling issues and some new work opportunities in Tokyo, we weren’t 100% certain that he was going to be able to shoot the movie. But now it’s definitely going to happen and the movie is going to be so much better because of his involvement. On a purely personal note, making the movie is now going to be a lot more fun for me.
ABOVE: Shogo rigs the DVX100 to the top of my Honda Civic with a $99 Stickypod car mount during the production of Sex Machine .
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Here’s an interview with Christopher Doyle - director of photography on some of my favorite films - in which he discusses his working process.
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Last weekend I finally got to get behind the camera again. The shooting was for Craig Stagg’s upcoming new short “Fuck This Fucking Town” (which from this point forward will be abbreviated as FTFT). The movie is a romantic comedy about dating and relationships in Austin, TX.
We had 2 and a half days to shoot over 20 pages of script. I normally subscribe to the rule that 5 pages a day is a good number to shoot for, so this shoot required working fast and smart. The thing that allowed us to move faster than normal is that the final film will be completely animated via rotoscoping. This means that all the video footage will be drawn frame-by-frame by Craig and a team of animators. Craig was one of the animators who worked on Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, so he knows a little bit about what he’s doing in this area.
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