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Yes, yes I know. I've been away too long. If anyone actually read this maybe I'd pop in more, lol

So, what have we been upto? A quick chronological update....

I may not of updated for a month, but that does not mean I have not been busy. Quite the opposite in fact.

Right now, I'm working on a few things and trying to decide what to do next.

The end goal is, of course, Genesis. Having struggled with the script for over a year, I've finally passed it over to a proper writer :) I'll discuss more when we have the first draft.

After a load of work, Deathilating Machine is finished and it's right here!

Remember my last blog? All sounded like it was going so well.

That was until I realised the old NLE had decided to put a black frame around my uncompressed render. Why? After lots of messing around, it appears to have been a bug. It kept messing up pixel size, and even though I'd manually set it as 1.0, it still wouldn't work until (as I eventually fluked upon) you completely change export types, then change back. It then defaults to 1.0 and, you know, actually works.

As Phil has said, we shot Deathilating Machine (aka In The Flesh) a long time ago, yet for one reason or another it's never been completed. We got close last year, but Phil wanted to work on the visual effects some more, and I was never really happy with the edit. Then we completed ZombieZ, then came the Mirrors music video, and then came a much needed rest.

And now we're here.

Been thinking about where's the best place to start with my blog about VFX stuff and for some reason have decided Deathilating Machine is the best place to start, the film was shot some time ago and for one reason or another (mainly other projects coming up in between) it still needs finishing on both the 'film making/ editing' side and in terms of the visual effects. Though we did screen a very early edit with very rough visual effects, it is still not quite complete in terms of how Matt and I visualise the final product.

So, Matt has asked me to write a blog about all things CG relating to Chainsaw Films' current, past and future projects, for anyone that may be at all interested in techy nerdy stuff.... 

So here's a quick heads up on what we have been up to, more detail to follow in the  fullness of time...

Zombiez - completed post production on promo/trailer for this feature film in July 2010

So I'm laying in bed contemplating the last few days.

Events kicked of quietly, a quick email to a few regular crew members asking their permission to include a bio on the Crew page - they would be involved in Genesis after all. Quickly found myself on Facebook having a chat with Piotr, my regular sound engineer.