Happy New Year!
January 7, 2009
Happy new year to each and every one of you from all of us at RAMP central. We’ve assembled a festive tableaux to express our holiday wishes… Brad, Erin, and Matt all decked out for New Year’s Eve to represent our collective wish that y’all can roll as large as we do… and a festive appliqué of J-Ro counting our (as of yet imaginary) Washingtons - because frankly, 2009 is going to be the year of cash money.
Lot’s of long-delayed RAMP news forthcoming - so stay tuned!
Brad & Matt Blather On About Waldo: Part Deux!
August 5, 2008
Part 2 (of 3) of Brad and Matt’s epic Waldo Ultimatum interview is now up at the Can You Find Waldo on Wordpress Blog.
This instalment goes a little more into the background of The Waldo Ultimatum as well as some of the fallout from it. Interesting stuff all around.
The Violator: Behind the Scenes
July 29, 2008
We’ve been wanting to share a little “behind the scenes” peek into the making of “The Violator” for weeks now, but got all caught up with awards fever, and live shows, and “The Dark Knight“… and other matters of extreme importance. But we’ve gotten around to it now.
The photos are full of interesting fun-facts on the shoot itself, but for interested technophiles - what we did once we had the footage was turn the 3,500 source photos into a single 5-minute, 12 fps video clip with a unique “photo number” burned on each frame. We could then cut the scene in our regular editing system and then go back and “conform” a high resolution version using the master photographs in Adobe AfterEffects so we could re-size and crop each shot (and AfterEffects has very good tweening to smooth out the motion evenly).
If that sounds like incredibly dull and time consuming work… you’re right! See how much we love you? Check out the photos (or our Flickr photostream) for lots more details of the crazy three-day shoot itself - and let us know if you like these “behind the scenes” peaks, and it might be something we do more of in the future!
