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May 16th, 2012 | Posted by jasonmckinnon in The Post - (0 Comments)

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Have you watched a short film today?

DETOUR

A sweet and heartfelt short film written and Directed by Takashi Doscher.

DEPARTURE

Here is a well put together and stylish short directed by Daniel Fahre.  Great looking car accident!

Check out the film’s site here.

PLANKTOON’S REFLEXION

Visit Planktoon here.

BRAVE

Here is a short film by Jasmin Lai completely created with Photoshop.

Click here for more.

FAN OF POST PRODUCTION?

Art of the Guillotine is hosting a ‘Post Chat’ in Toronto on May 30, 2012.  Click here for all the details and be sure to check out the site.

THE MAURIZIO SHOW WEB SERIES

Winner of Outstanding Comedy and Outstanding Actress (Melanie Minichino) at LA Web Fest 2012.  Check out an episode below and be sure to stop by Melanie’s site here.

Do you have a project you’d like to see promoted on The Athletic Nerd?  Email me jason@17west.ca.

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Total Film Calls The Athletic Nerd A Cool Blog To Visit

May 15th, 2012 | Posted by jasonmckinnon in The Post | Web - (0 Comments)

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Everyone who starts a blog feels a great sense of pride when someone links to them or mentions their site in any way.  They are tiny victories and for me, they are the fuel that keeps me writing each and every week.

Today, The Athletic Nerd was mentioned in Total Film’s weekly newsletter as a cool film blog to visit.  I’m also a part of their extensive ‘600 Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed.’

If you haven’t seen Total Film’s website or the extremely popular magazine be sure to check them out here.

Thanks to Total Film for the mention and to @WatchALotMovies for the heads up.

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Short Films, Trailers, Animated Shorts, Lightsabers & Bioshock

May 3rd, 2012 | Posted by jasonmckinnon in The Post - (0 Comments)

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Have you watched a short film today?

NEW YEAR’S END: A BIOSHOCK SHORT FILM

One of my favorite games of all time.  Still waiting for that live action adaptation…  Until then we have passionate fans like Jared Potter creating brilliant short films like this:

Click here for the official site.

XTRA | Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If The Bioshock Movie Happened?

KINYARWANDA

Here is the trailer for an upcoming DVD release from Breaking Glass Pictures and directed by Alrick Brown

HAOMA SHORT FILM

Lovely and imaginative animated short directed by Matthieu Deltour.

LA CAMA

This is the first short presented by the Midnight Horror Show on YouTube.  There are more on the way.

Click here for more and check them out on Facebook here.

THE SOUND OF LIGHTSABERS

Ever wondered where the sound of a Lightsaber came from?  Check out this clip featuring Ben Burtt on the film’s sound design.

Check out this article on Blastr for more.

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JAYMCKINNON.COM Home Page Redesign

May 1st, 2012 | Posted by jasonmckinnon in 17 West | Design | Technology | The Post | Web - (0 Comments)

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JAYMCKINNON.COM has always been the home page of The Athletic Nerd with tons of links to 17 West Productions and my second blog People Tales.  To me the old design felt cluttered considering it was only meant to get people to this blog or to 17W.

Phase one of the transformation was The Athletic Nerd’s new logo.  It was accompanied by new graphics, ads and animations on this site and now it’s made it’s way home.

The new page is extremely simple but achieves everything it needs to achieve.  It points people to both my main sites and incorporates various social network pages from around the web.  From a design stand point, I’m really proud of the simple minimalist look.

Check out the new look here.

Now…  What’s next…

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The Art Of Title Design & Christopher Nolan Talks Directing

April 20th, 2012 | Posted by jasonmckinnon in Design | Filmmaking | The Post - (1 Comments)

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This week I wrote a couple posts that revolved around graphic & title design.

Inside the Edit: Dexter’s Opening Credits was all about the brilliance of one of my favorite title sequences.  It was followed up by my own attempt a title graphic by animating the Athletic Nerd’s new logo.  Today I wanted to share a couple of links that expand on those two posts.

The first deals with legendary opening titles and the second designing your own.

THE ART OF FILM & TV TITLE DESIGN

HOLLYWOOD MOVIE TITLES ON AETUTS+

AETUTS+ has been publishing an extensive series of video tutorials for months now that teach you how to recreate some amazing movie titles and graphics.  You’ll find Inception, The Hunger Games, Transformers, Back to the Future, The Expendables, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and more…

Click here to check them out.

Speaking of Batman…

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN TALKS FILMMAKING

There is a brilliant interview over on The Director’s Guild of America’s site that goes in depth with Christopher Nolan on his directing style.

Read the interview here.

I’m a massive fan of Nolan’s work as many are but not just because of the blockbusters like the Batman series or Inception.  It’s the originality he pours into his films like Memento, The Prestige and Insomnia.  Did I mention I can’t wait for The Dark Knight Rises?

Here are a 15 articles I’ve posted over the years about my favorite director and his work:

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