Mark Johnson - "CHOW BABY"

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

The Dude Abides
Big snake. Hot chick. Mayhem. Nuff said.

Update: 9/5/06 - New BTS footage posted at end of thread.

UPDATE 9/3/06 - Behind the Scenes on the Set of Chow Baby posted at end of thread.

Update 8/30/06 - First day of lead actress auditions. Photos posted at end of thread.

UPDATE: 8/27/06 - I'm pleased top announce that composer Guthrie Lowe is now attached to the project and will score Chow Baby. A member of BMI, Mr. Lowe has 19 years experience as a touring professional and recording artist. He is now making a name for himself as one of the hot new orchestral score composers for film and television in Northern California. You can hear samples of his work in areas of Drama/Romance, Action/Adventure, Horror, Classical and TV Themes on his site: www.guthrielowe.com.

8/27/06 - I'm auditioning actresses this week for the lead role of Angela. (My ex-girlfriend has her hands full with her final year of law school and she simply doesn't have time to devote to the film). Fortunately, the project has attained a small amount of buzz and we have some very exceptional actresses vying for the role.

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LOL.

Subscribing now.

Make that banner bigger, sir.

How o' How are you going to make this good?
 
CG Snake in progress

CG Snake in progress

Here's some WIP frames for the CG snake I'm building in MODO.
 
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OMG. That is AWESOME.

Great stuff, man. I won't curse you before you're even done. But, sheesh.

Okay.
 
I aspire to make B-movies of the kind that warped my impressionable brain as a young lad. Kholi, you rock. I am humbled by the talent and experience on this board. If my li'l ol' snake can bring a smile to you veterans I will be more than happy.

Mark
 
Although I became a fan of S.O.A.P. early on, from what I can see it's major flaw may be an absence of hotties menaced by the serpents. Perhaps the sequel will be Snakes In a Strip Club. :)
 
Same here, Movie Stunts.

If I could, I'd definitely be entering my first Horror_Fest idea.

And, I'm not a veteran by any means.

Good luck!
 
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Although I became a fan of S.O.A.P. early on, from what I can see it's major flaw may be an absence of hotties menaced by the serpents. Perhaps the sequel will be Snakes In a Strip Club. :)
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Lol...
 
Lead Actress

Lead Actress

I admit up front that my script is not Shakespeare quality. In fact, there's very little dialogue in the whole damn thing. However, I'm hoping my visuals will overcome a paucity of verbiage. My victim, er, lead actress is easy on the eyes at least. This is Jennifer Marie, my ex-girlfriend who still likes (or pities) me enough to be my leading lady.
 
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Production Still

Production Still

Yeah, we're revising the site and re-tooling the animation samples. I need to get the whip out and stripe those web monkeys so they get the links working again! Thanks for the kind words.

Here's a production still with the incomplete CG snake in a test animation on top of CG pipe network above actress. Location is a parking garage I have access to with enough head-room to mount camera on boom attached to roof of my Hyundai. Actress walks ahead of car while camera is suspended above her looking down. CG pipes and snake added to make it look like snake is stalking her with camera viewpoint above snake.

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Snake Cam

Snake Cam

I have an 11-year old who loves RC vehicles so I liberated one to use for my "snake cam." The clearance underneath cars in the parking lot was too low for the DVX and it would have been too heavy for the purpose anyway. Thus, I taped a little panasonic 3CCD mini-DV camcorder to the sucker. Control is a bit seat-of-my-pants as the RC racer really accelerates and turns quickly. However, the footage looks pretty cool and the vibration sort of adds to the effect of being at snake belly level.

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I'm quite a ways from finishing. As many of you are very aware, compositing and animating anything is a ***** and this really is a tight schedule. However, I've got a good deal of the background plates in the can and I've storyboarded this so that I can at least have something finished by October 1 in some form. If I make particularly good progress I'll be able to move-match some of the footage in motion and add the snake. If things get tight I'll have to do cuts to the snake against static plate backgrounds. I just hope a 747 doesn't go down or some other disaster that would cause me to lose my free evenings and weekends due to real life work.
 
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