Rhobot Films

Come and See Team Rhobot’s Inside at the Castro Oct 10th!

Dave Cowl — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:59:09 +0000

The most recent Team Rhobot project Inside will be screened at the upcoming Scary Cow Festival – see http://screening.scarycow.com for tickets!

The project was tackled as part of the 48 Hour Film Project event for San Francisco and as well as competing for general round 1 Scary Cow budget, the film also be competing for a special 48 Hour Film Project prize.

As part of the rules of the 40 Hour Film Project competition we were assigned a genre (Horror), as well as a character (a consultant named Geoffery or Gigi Cook) and a prop (a plate).

The screening will be at that Castro Theatre in San Francisco on October 10th at 3:00pm.

We will share the movie on this site also after the screening is complete.

Jake’s Game – Team Rhobot’s 24 Hour Film Racing Entry

Dave Cowl — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:23:58 +0000

This film was our entry for the San Francisco 24 Hour Film Racing event at the end of April.

Adobe Production Premium CS5

Dave Cowl — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:06:56 +0000

So Creative Suite 5 is out, and it looks like the ideal film makers package is Production Premium.

It is interesting that Adobe has been working to improve render and effects times by hooking into the nVidia CUDA technology to speed up rendering.

Sadly it looks like right now the Quadro cards are the only ones supporting this, which will cost you as much as the motherboard and uP did most likely!

Edit: Maybe other CUDA cards are supported too… just not to the same extent.

The other interesting thing is that the new CS5 requires 64 bit OS to work – and really likes to have a lot of memory.

I guess it is time to save up the pennies and start constructing a new PC that is greater than any PC before…!

Microphones for Digital Film Making

Dave Cowl — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:51:07 +0000

I have been looking somewhat into microphones for film making.

One interesting item I found is the Pearstone DUSM-1 Universal Shockmount for Camera Shoes and Boompoles.

On the microphone side, the Azden SGM-X – Supercardioid Shotgun Condenser Microphone with Mini Output looks interesting for a start. Cheap and will apparently connect directly.

It may need an adapter to connect into a stereo jack.

Image * After for Free Royalty Free Images

Dave Cowl — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:30:53 +0000

If you are looking for images to use in a project that may have commercial application, a good place to look is Image * After.

Their library specifically states that the images can be used for anything.

I have not had much of a chance to look at the selection, but assuming the categories are applicatable, it looks like they have a decent number of pictures.

Scenechronize Film Production Management

Dave Cowl — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:47:50 +0000

There is a film production management tool website called Scenechronize.

Looks like interesting stuff and it is free for a single user.

Disposable Film Festival

Dave Cowl — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:38:18 +0000

The idea of the Disposable Film Festival is all about using cheap video capturing devices to make a film.

Seems interesting, something to keep in mind as a future outlet. Costs $0.99 to enter.

Surrogates

Dave Cowl — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:45:28 +0000

I watched Surrogates with Bruce Willis in it last night.

Delivered pretty much what you would expect – other than it was actually better than I expected based on all of the bad reviews.

Had the same inventor actor as I, Robot – so that was kinda interesting.

Hello world!

Dave Cowl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:39:54 +0000

Welcome to the new Rhobot Films website.

It will take a while for the dust to settle, but be sure to come back in February to see the first Rhobot Films production with Scary Cow called Beyond Words.

It was fun to shoot and hopefully will be fun to watch!