So I have been working on MiB3 for the last 2 and a half months and it has been pretty fun! So far the movie is looking pretty good. It might possibly be my favourite MiB of the series. I’ll be looking forward to seeing the final version when we wrap up in end of March! Check out the teaser trailer they just released:

My friend Andrew Marcus has just released his new Christian album titled ‘Our Conversation behind the Veil’. We helped him shoot his introductory video for his album.

You can find out more of his music here at www.andrewmarcusmusic.com

There are many things that I would consider thankful for; but for this time of the season, I have one thing I’m most thankful for. I’d like to talk about something that is very personal and hard for me to share. For the past decade I had been indulging myself in an addiction that lead me no where. I found myself losing satisfaction in the ‘norm’ which lead me to look for more immoral things to satisfy my cravings. It was a never-ending cycle. Only in the past few years, I realized this addiction had to stop before it goes any further. Trying my best and looking for help from others as well as reading books seemed to help a bit, but I would always end up giving in as I struggled hard with it. It was only a few weeks ago did one of my friend who had the same addiction problem suggested I take a course at SettingCaptivesFree.com. Already being 1 week in, I’ve learnt so many new things about the power of Jesus and how He can set me free from this addiction for good. It really feels like I am being set free already! And for this, I am the most thankful for, I really am..

Happy thanksgiving everyone.

Over the weekend, my wife and I (mainly my wife) had filmed our friend and helped her create this video for her school project. This was a fun and challenging project bringing up new problems we haven’t experienced before. It was our first time doing ADR (automated dialogue replacement) and our first time getting a friends to play the background music. But the best thing we got out of this was to hear our friend’s story that we never knew about it. With her permission, she has agreed to share her personal life with others. She really is an incredible person.

For the last 10 months I have been working on a side project for the church. It was to demonstrate to the congregation where to exit and where to meet in an event of an emergency. This project took me a while to do because it was outside of my work time and modeling the church wasn’t as easy as I first thought it would be! I give respect to the architect who designed our church. When you look around the building it seems like any other normal building, but there was a lot of thought put into designing that church and when you start modeling it, you realize you don’t even know what beam is connected to where and how tall each windows are and how walls line up!

In this project, I ended up modeling, texturing, rigging (the arrows), animating, lighting (with vray), and rendering the shots. Another church member will be compiling the shots in sequential order with slides in-between them. Can’t wait to see the final edited version of this!

Today marks my first day on the Men in Black 3 production. Looking at a few of the sequences from the live action shoot, it looks like this will be a pretty fun and exciting movie to work on! Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rip Torn are part of the crew as they will also be keeping the same cast as the previous MIB. Josh Brolin will be the new “Young Agent K” giving you a little insight on what MIB3 will be about.

More info at: IMDB link

A few days we had our wrap party for Nerd Corps’ TV Series, Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5. The party was a blast and everyone had a fun time celebrating. It is great to see the TV series have done so well around the world, being one of the most popular kids cartoon show of this era.

It reminded me of the time when I was walking through Toys ‘R’ us and seeing young boys running up to the toys in such excitement towards ‘Vert’ and the rest of the team in toy figurines. Even though I no longer work there, I’m glad to see Nerd Corps Entertainment doing so well with each cartoon TV series they produce.

You can see more about the show here: http://www.battleforce5.com/

On Labor day, my wife and I spent some time together with just the two of us.  We usually don’t get much time together because we would usually hang out with our friends or be busy with our projects and work.  I had my 7D Canon camera with me that day and filmed some stuff.  We went out and enjoyed going to the Vancouver Aquarium, the Vancouver Lookout, and Lonsdale Quay Market.

Here is the video:

http://vimeo.com/28742362

Siggraph is in town and it has been a pretty awesome event!  Lots to see and a lot of cool talks to go to.  Another two more days left, see you there!