The Hive is pleased to announce our latest motion comic project “The Straw Man”. “The Straw Man” – Motion Comic Synopsis A reclusive former gunrunner Frank Mansfield hides out in small desert town, Pahrump Nevada. He’s hiding from his former boss Art Brown, a leading provider of assault weapons to the Mexican cartels and one of Southern California’s most untouchable
May 14, 2012 UPDATE: “The Alchemist Agenda” was selected for Amazon Studios Development Slate: “The most promising projects at Amazon Studios, where we are building on their stories, creating test movies or carrying out audience tests.” The Hive has completed, an Amazon Studios Production, of the first full length feature motion comic created from original artwork, The Alchemist Agenda based
October 4, 2011 In late 2010, Amazon.com, Inc. announced their entre into the business of producing movies through a new division, Amazon Studios, and a first look deal with Warner Brothers. Their intent was unabashedly clear: to make commercial feature films, for the people, by the people. Good movie ideas, they claim, could and should come from everywhere, and the
…is probably my favorite holiday. I love the food, the crisp, cool hints of the year winding down – an American celebration of gratitude. And I have much to be grateful for this year, especially on this project. I’d like to thank our dedicated team for all their great work and dedication. They have been tirelessly sprinting to make our
Even though this movie is a work of fiction, the suspension of disbelief must be facilitated by reality. I realize how completely incoherent that sounds – so I’ll try to explain. The Alchemist Agenda has a wish fulfillment premise presupposing that there is a formula to unlimited wealth and ultimate power. It also has two lead characters with superior skill
The layers of visuals and sound are starting to work together, and the movie’s really beginning to come to life. While the hive-ling artist are working away to complete the artwork, we had actors come into the recording studio to lay down moans, groans, and cheers for the action sequences and background SFX. It was really fun to see our images
My wife is in the last leg of the pregnancy, so I thought I’d make a clever parallel to our sprint to the finish line on The Alchemist Agenda project. While my wife is uncomfortable, exhausted, edgy, and often sleepless worrying about the arrival of our new baby, I am sweatin’ bullets, as my neurotic nature over-thinks every aspect of
Being an adventure film, we put all our animation/motion efforts into the action sequences. And most of that artwork is now complete. So as our animator spends the next two weeks finishing his very detailed layering in After Effects, our artists are cranking away at the rest of our storyboards. Every frame must maintain Matt Hill’s rich style that serves
October 21, 2011 “Complications cause conflict, and conflict is born in character.” Lajos Egri The writing gurus say that the second act should be loaded with complications. It’s never as good as it seems at the midpoint and it’s never as bad as it seems at the all-is-lost point. Just before the third act begins, the hero hits rock bottom,
October 20, 2011 Posted by Marty Weiss “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.” Steve Jobs
October 18, 2011 Posted by Marty Weiss We are getting ready to animate a fight that takes place in the backseat of a taxicab. Working out animated moves and pulling off the intensity in such a confined space is quite a challenge. This sequence also has a birds’ eye top-shot of a car chase through Prague. The file size of
October 14, 2011 The first few hours of the day were taken to explain the project to our new artist, Jeremy Arambulo. We want everyone involved to be immersed in the feel of The Alchemist Agenda, as well as the workflow. And it’s also important that we give them inspiration they can relate to. Artists need good references, and that’s
The Hive-lings presented the first two test sequences: one animated, one static. The purpose was to determine the level of movement required and the pacing of the edit. It also allowed us to talk more concretely about the kind of consistency we can accomplish, as well as how color will be used. Even though our selective color will be mostly
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