district 9
What started out as the short film, ‘Alive in Joburg‘ by the front runner director of the ‘Halo’ movie, Neill Blomkamp. Has grown into a full length feature with the help of Peter Jackson. I, for one, am very excited about this. ‘District 9‘ has the feel of an independent film, but with WETA level VFX behind it. And that combination really gives this film some promise. Check out the trailer below!
‘District 9′ Trailer
‘Alive in Joburg’
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Really amazing stuff. But what’s really cool is if you do a little digging you’ll find one of his earlier commercials for Citroen. Which any compositor out there who started learning shake will recognize this one. Since it was the asset for a tutorial in the old Apple Pro Training Series ‘Shake 4′ book!
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LINK: D-9 – Official Movie Site
LINK: Neill Blomkamp – Aspiring Director
Today It’s Neill Blomkamp, a Johannesburg native, is a fairly gifted young aspiring director. One that grew up with all that new technology and computers and he doesn’t fear using it in his shorts and advertisements, which he has been doing so far. He uses CGI as it is just a cutting method, you can’t tell whether the shown object is a built prop or just digitally generated. Absolutely great to see.
He has done commercials for Nike and Citroen most notably.
Groundbreaking and certainly important for his future film making are his shorts Tetra Vaal and Alive in Joburg. The latter features some sort of aliens that are stranded on earth and live in the shantytowns of Johannesburg. You could clearly read it as a critique, because it describes a situation that resembles Apartheid.
