Silent City Since this is a blog for The Ticket I should be writing about my own project. But I just saw a short film worth your time. This one's for all you filmmakers out in the trenches figuring out how to make ends meet and how to make a film at the same time...

Ruairi Robinson made an amazing short film, Silent City. He just went from wondering how to pay the rent to getting offers from L.A. Now he's slated to direct the live-action version of Akira. I lifted the following quote from a Q&A thread on www.dvxuser.com

Budget - cost me 7k euro + 3-4 grand from my producer to SHOOT the thing... then eventually got some assistance from the film board to complete it...

Time is a bit of a sore point for me, since it took wayyyyy long to finish than I would have preferred. I spent 6 months on the post with no income, then had to stop to figure out a way to pay my rent... then before I knew it a year had passed and the film was sitting there like an Albatross. At this point I hated every poo pooing frame of the thing and wasn't even going to finish it. I decided finally to get my shi* together and hacked all the stuff I hated out of it, and spent a couple more months on it (actually it was quite quick to finish in the end) and that was the end of last October - done and dusted.

3D was 3dsmax and vray to render.

Check out his site: Ruairi Robinson

Labels: Akira, Ruari Robinson, Silent City, The Ticket

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