Isaac Botkin: Production Process of a Short Film
Tonight, before our eyes, a short epic in the tradition of “Master and Commander,” came to life on a sea of foaming Legos.
Legos? That’s right. During his session, “Production Process of a Short Film,” Isaac Botkin premiered the animated short, “Men O’ War,” which he and his siblings threw together just for Academy attendees.
It is a beautiful example of what can happen when character, competence and collaboration are present in a godly family. I wish I could make a movie like this with my little brothers.
The Botkins began with a timeline for the month long production.
The three-minute short was full of incredible Lego battle scenes like this one, all created with LightWave 3D.
As has been emphasized repeatedly throughout the Academy, the storyboard was one of the first steps in producing the short.
The storyboard is taken to the editing board.
A Lego actor being created in LightWave.
These Legos have facial expressions! And they can talk!
A completed Lego man.
A Lego warship in LightWave.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
WOW!
Are they going to upload it on-line somewhere? I would love to go see it.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
I hope they will do some others as well.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I will be posting it at some point on my website… but that’ll be after the festival, and after I fix my site.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Wow - I have immense respect for those with enough determination to creat something like that. Filmmaking is a sideline hobby of mine (after costuming - I did all of the costumes in The Midnight Test, which is a semi-finalist this year) but that is amazing. Great job, guys!
October 17th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
It`s great to see the whole process of a film. I would love to be a storyboard artist, but I`m waiting on what God wants for me. Keep the posts coming guys!!
October 17th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
[…] We are very excited to premiere a teaser trailer of the epic, four-minute short, Men O’ War, a 3D-animated film created by the Botkin family for the second annual Christian Filmmaker’s Academy. […]
October 17th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Wow! I like the story boarding! That’s so cool. Okay, so I’m using the word cool, but I don’t know any other word to discribe it. I love to draw and now I think I will put together a story board for fun!
Oh, tell the Botkins…Greetings from RCA of St. Louis…The Zes family is on their way!!! I pray they have a good fellowship time…
I’m trying guys, I’m really trying ( : not to be jealous!
October 18th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Wow!!! That’s insane. What an awesome project. I can imagine my brothers doing something like that… This festival sounds really cool. I’d like to attend something like that, but I think you Yanks are a little better set up with that stuff that us Aussies
Hope it continues going well if you’re still there!
October 18th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Wow. Thank you for posting this. I love these kind of posts, especially ones that feature 3D art.
I appreciate what you’re doing, live posting on the Film Academy.