A filmmaking notebook · in progress

Nobody draws anything, and no 3D application is involved

A set is a list of boxes with coordinates in metres. A ray-caster turns that into a grey picture, a still model turns the grey picture into a photograph, and a video model films the photograph. Four steps, and a starship corridor comes out the other end.

This is the working record of finding out what that machine will and will not do — every experiment that changed one thing and held the rest, including the ones that proved us wrong.

Five shots, five separate renders, one corridor, one man — cut together. Everything on this site was made on a single desktop computer, and every number in it was read off a file on disk.

The diary · newest first

  • Day one: everything we believed was wrong

    Day one: everything we believed was wrong

    We began with a clear question and four confident beliefs. By the end of the day three of them were dead — measured and buried, not argued away. One of them was mine. In between, the pipeline made its first real shot on the first attempt.