CURT NOVA

2010-03-01T01:01:00.000-08:00

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN REDIRECTED

please go to www.curtnova.com

2010-02-05T22:21:00.000-08:00

The last couple days I have not been feeling well so I spent some time watching tutorials for Cinema 4D and played around with HDRI lighting and got some really cool results. I used a lot of models that came with Cinema 4D for these lighting tests but I think I got some cool results.

MoGraph Dynamics

2010-01-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

Here is a test video I rendered out with some simple texturing and MoGraph Dynamics. I'm loving what the Cinema 4D plugins are capable of with very little animating.

Pills Cinema 4D Test from Curtis McCain on Vimeo.

Curt Nova trying to go 3D

2010-01-26T22:54:00.000-08:00

So the last few weeks Ive been spending a lot of time learning Cinema 4D and I'm proud to say..ummm... well.....I'm getting there. Anyways I'm not what I would consider competent yet so if any one has any good tutorial sites let me know. So this is what I've gotten so far in between working on other projects so there is more to come soon. And at the rate I'm going through tutorials they are sure to be a lot better than these.

Gambit Costume Unvieled

2009-10-28T00:40:00.000-07:00

Heres a video test of me in my costume...let me know what you think, I'll post some photos soon.

Revisiting Eternal

2009-10-26T23:35:00.001-07:00

After running around this morning trying to track down various things for Halloween I came home and started going through footage from my Eternal trailer to get clips together to send to Megan Lee Joy (meganleejoy.com) for her reel. I should have sent the footage to her ages ago but I wanted to get some more VFX shots finished up so that she had more then what made it into the trailer. So I spent the night making various tweaks to the footage that was almost done and finishing up some shots i'd Started in AE. Then finally cut it all together into one long clip that was sort of a rough cut of the various types of footage such as dialogue, Fight scenes etc and uploaded it to dropbox. Which is still taking it's sweet time to process the upload. After going through all this footage again it made me realize that it would be so much fun to work on a short vampire web series based on Eternal. I then realized there are tons of vampire shows and web shows and movies and well everything at he moment so maybe that wouldn't be the best use of my time but still it would be a lot of fun and given half the chance I'd start filming immediately. Maybe I should set up an Eternal donation box and save my pennies until I could make the feature and/or web series. Anyways leave me some comments or suggestions about what you think should happen to Eternal.

If you haven't seen it click the link to view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0LUhRVUSzc

-- Curt

2009-10-25T21:55:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning at went out filming with Jesse Tobler (@JesseTobler) we had a lot of really good conversation and spent some time walking around and filming some scenes to work with in After Effects but just mainly for the enjoyment of being out filming. We got some really great stuff so I'm excited to sit down and do some editing with him I think we'll end up with some really rad footage to post. I also went and picked up a CD with some photos on it for another After Effects project that I'm working on. It will be a commercial that will air in Douglas, Lane, and Coos counties for a small business in the Roseburg area I'm pretty excited to get working on it I will in short be taking some photos and animating them in fun ways with a magical prince and princess sort of feel to them but I'll tell you more on that later as it comes along. I'm hoping to get a good solid start on that tomorrow depending on how the day plays out.

- Curt

What to do for Halloween.

2009-10-25T01:08:00.001-07:00

Halloween is coming up soon and I have been working hard on my costume. last years costume was kinda lackluster and didn't turn out the way I had hoped so this year I have stepped it up. I can't tell you what it is yet but I am very excited about it i just finished up the last piece today and it looks great the plan is to have some media up for it early this week so every one can finally see what it is perferably a video but at least some photos until the video is posted. At the moment I have no big plans for the night but I want to do something fun, go have a few drinks or run around downtown anything really I just want to be out. There were some thaughts about going out of town but due to my schedule I don't think that will happen. If any one has any ideas or would like to share their plans leave me a comment.

-- Curt

CURT NOVA VLOG Ep 004

2009-10-21T01:31:00.001-07:00

Reel 2009

2009-08-12T16:24:00.000-07:00

2009 ShowReel Curtis McCain from Curtis McCain on Vimeo.

I Finally got my stuff together and got a reel posted so here it is give me some feedback let me know what you like or dislike. Also very soon I will be expanding me site to be more than just a blog site. Pretty exciting!

- Curt

NEW After Effects Explosion

2009-07-19T11:40:00.000-07:00

I have been learning a lot more about After Effects lately which has been quite a lot of fun. Heres a little Video I threw together last night. Let me know what you think by leaving me a comment on here or on YouTube

Testing

2009-06-28T18:33:00.001-07:00

Seeing how pixelpipe works

Testing out pixelpipe

Testing 1 2 3.

Summer Classes

2009-05-30T19:34:00.001-07:00

Well it looks like there's no way I can pass my math class. So I'm going to have to take classes over the summer. Even though I'm still technically graduating. Seems pointless to go through all the graduation ceremonies when I still have a class outstanding. Oh well. After finding all of this out I decided to get out of town so I'll be posting lots of pictures from my weekend on my Flickr account.

Click the Flickr link at the top of the page for more.

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No VLOG this Week.

2009-05-25T20:42:00.000-07:00

College is coming to an end and unfortunately I'm very far behind. So I have decided not to make a VLOG this week because it would not be in my best interest so I'll have another one up as soon as I'm able to get all my class work done...I'll Keep you posted.

B17 on set

2009-05-14T11:03:00.000-07:00

Filming the How it effects me section of In The Lab With Atom.

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Ep_003 Working on a Video to Promote my Twitter Account in After Effects

2009-05-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

Working on video in After Effects, to promote my Twitter account in my Vlog

NEW VLOG! Curt Nova Reviews - Star Trek and x-men origins

2009-05-11T12:49:00.000-07:00

My opinions and movie reviews of Star Trek and x-men origins wolverine

If You Haven't Seen This Yet

2009-05-07T15:18:00.000-07:00

If you haven't seen this yet check it, Julian shot this last summer. I played the lead singer there are just flashes of me in there but give it a look.

New Blog up Soon!

2009-05-04T21:03:00.000-07:00

I'm not slacking on getting a new video up I'm just waiting to get a few more things in line so there will be one up soon I promise. I've been sorting through all of the video's I have ever Made and I'm trying to get them together so I can put up a reel its Kind of a pain but I almost have them all in one place which is nice. So...Check back there will be a new Vlog up soon!

Blogging Time!

2009-04-28T14:23:00.000-07:00

I'm Helping every one set up their blogs today instead of filming. We probably should be filming but the weather is terrible and we are missing a team member, every one should wish Wade well....he may or may not have Swine Flu....No probably not I think he just didn't wanna come in.

Gorgeous

2009-04-23T16:45:00.001-07:00

It is beautiful outside

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2009-04-23T14:14:00.001-07:00

Coty Werner working the "sound" episode of "In The Lab With Atom"

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!!!NEW VLOG!!!

2009-04-23T12:37:00.000-07:00

Filming on Location with B17 for "In The Lab With Atom"

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Vlog finished!

2009-04-23T03:25:00.001-07:00

It will be up first thing tommorrow. Here's a sneak peak.

-- Post From My iPhone

Rough edit

2009-04-22T00:02:00.001-07:00

I have my first video blog edited together I just need to put in some graphics and work on the audio and it will be up. With my busy scedule Im shooting to have it done by thursday.

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Very Busy Weekend

2009-04-19T23:53:00.001-07:00

I went up to Portland Friday to help set up for a shoot finished up late in the day and was back on set at 8:00am the next morning. After Saturdays shoot I headed backdown to Eugene and got some sleep. Today I got up had lunch with my friend from my hometown, worked on my blog intro, then went and had some drinks with my Girlfriend and her friends from work to enjoy the sun.

Overall. .. A good weekend.

-- Post From My iPhone

2009-04-16T22:24:00.001-07:00

I spent my night creating a fabulous hair do for my girlfriend's runway photo shoot.

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My Latest Video

2009-04-16T16:35:00.000-07:00

If you haven't watched it yet check it out!

Science!

2009-04-16T15:29:00.000-07:00

Just finished up at the at Science Factory. The shoot went smoothly. I shot lots of handycam footage that will soon be my first real video blog.

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Testing..

2009-04-15T23:10:00.001-07:00

Testing out a new iPhone app for updating my blog. Here goes nothing..

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