Wonderful world of editing

got nothing to do but wait for the joker scene to be finished rendering...

quite a long torturous journey it was but ugh it's over, that's all that matters to me now...

my thoughts on the editing process. It's the same thing as painting. I've done my share of art pieces, a hell of a lot, and so I'm a vet in regards to the process artists go through where they have an idea for what they want to make, then it grows and changes and develops its own life....

Was hoping this edit would be simple cut and paste stuff. Was wrong. It ended up demanding hard fx work like deep after fx manipulation. I did some stuff in after fx that I was confident I could do but it kept rendering out flawed and so I had to fix it, so it's an extremely complex shot that lasts all of maybe 5 seconds...

I might actually do an fx break down of all the fx stuff, showing how it was done since that in itself is something to behold.

Like, I've been f'n around in after effects for a solid 5 years, I've become something of a master of it....I was surprised by how skilled I was making the shot work. I just knew what I needed to do to get it to work since I've been through so much in after fx and had to do so many tweaks and such with it on old stuff...

Yeah, I can definitely claim to be an advanced level user by this point... if you watch the joker stuff in the movie and see the ball fall and hit me then roll to the side of the screen, ALL OF THAT, is fake. I split the screen and used different bits to frankenstein the whole thing together.... and it came out perfect....

The key was understanding how to animate the masks. I've learned that the masks need to be animated sequentially, not from any random spot in the time line. Either do it from start to finish or it's going to be a jumbled mess. On top of that none of the lighting worked out. I learned from experience that long fades trick the eye better than short fades so I long faded every thing I could and you simply don't notice when all the bits fade to other bits, just took all day that damn shot. Horror show and nobody will know how much I worked on that... Not only doing tons of takes, but then cobbling the shot together... sad but eh, that's what it's all about...

I'm kinda scared to be honest. I'm not an actor and don't really have this extroverted kinda persona so I don't know if I'll want people to see my performance as Joker. I'm proud of it because I did it in the freezing f'n cold, lots of little nice emoting going on I threw into it. He's Joker to me. I don't and never will like evil asshole joker. Joker's supposed to be an unpredictable clown. That's it.

Kinda stole a lot of stuff from Hamill and Burton's versions but he's totally my Joker at least the one I wish movies would finally do and stop messing around with emo versions.

Caesar was on to something I say...

What now.... going to forge a rough cut of the film using every massive render of scenes that I got, push it up on mega and provide a link here for ya all... as a gift for continuing to read this blog. I'm no longer getting the badass numbers I somehow got years ago. Don't have a damn clue why I even reached hundreds of views... I can assure you you wasted your time on me. But for hanging with my weird ass, you'll get something for it...

See ya later...