Doug Hogan » Short Film

Weapons of Mass Pixelation

Doug Hogan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:45:20 +0000

Check out this really well done short by Patrick Jean, called Pixels.

Using wonderful special effects and combining the upbeat music, Patrick has made a wonderful nostalgic video that features the old style and pixel look into a realistic suburban city with the Pixels taking over. With so much color, sound and things happening at the same time, I really could not attempt to explain what is going on and just urge you to press play and really soak in this amazing creation.

The cool concept aside, this short has some really superb lighting and compositing going on. And I really love the marriage between the 8bit modeling style, and the really high res particle simulations. The shot of the Tetris blocks collapsing the building? Fantastic.

I would love to see a making of!

Please, Patrick…pleaseeeee?

Doug Hogan is a VFX compositor and freelance web designer working in Detroit. He's a 2006 SCAD graduate and has worked in both the broadcast, web, and feature film corners of the Visual Effects industry.

He also co-hosts the weekly geek podcast Lingo: A Geekly Podcast with his long time friend and author, Andrew Marcec.

Nuit Blanche

Doug Hogan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:51:36 +0000

I’ve got a great award winning short film for you all today called “Nuit Blanche”. It comes to us by way of Spy Films, and was directed by Arev Manoukian. After seeing the video below, I doubt you’ll be surprised to find out that Spy Films is the directing troupe that Neill Blomkamp calls home as well.

It’s not easy to make 0′s and 1′s emotionally moving, but that’s exactly what the VFX artists have done here. Really impressive work.

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Making Of:

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He also co-hosts the weekly geek podcast Lingo: A Geekly Podcast with his long time friend and author, Andrew Marcec.

An Impossible Short

Doug Hogan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12:08 +0000

For those of you who couldn’t make it to this years Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, I’ve got some good news for you. Lucas Martell’s animated film, “Pigeon: Impossible”, has finally been released for all to see on YouTube!

It’s a really charming short, expertly done, and is honestly just as good as anything Pixar has to offer. Big words I know, but watch the video below and I think you’ll agree. Especially when you get to the credits and realize only a handful of artists we responsible for creating it! Also, if you haven’t already, check out his video podcast series he did awhile back too. He takes you step by step from story development, to animation, to rendering, to final edit. I’ve featured it on this blog before, but I’ve relinked it below the featured video just in case you all want to check it out again! Just like “Pigeon: Impossible”, it’s a really high quality series and I think we can all learn a lot from it.

Great work Lucas! I really loved it.

LINK: Pigeon: Impossible

The Short

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The Vlog

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He also co-hosts the weekly geek podcast Lingo: A Geekly Podcast with his long time friend and author, Andrew Marcec.

oceanside

Doug Hogan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:15:41 +0000

Check out this French 3D short film by Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazieres and Fabien Thareau. And then tell me this wouldn’t make a bad ass opening to a video game.

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LINK: Oceanside

He also co-hosts the weekly geek podcast Lingo: A Geekly Podcast with his long time friend and author, Andrew Marcec.