So I’ve been slowly updating my www.infinitemachine.com web site and have made some pretty big changes. Certainly, still more to go, but I wanted to get the structure up and running as soon as possible so I could get the site working for me.

I’ve had some great feedback given to me and given that I’m quite busy, I’ll work on changes as I go. If you have any feedback let me know.

Some of the new ideas and goals I had for the site:

• Show how I can contribute to the visual elements for film production.
• Illustrate a visual development  in stages and how each step the creative process can work with each other.
• Preview examples of artwork as well as a cinematography and how that affects each development step.
• Discuss how I can be a part of any one of these steps in part, or in whole.
• Provide a “story” to each image to further illustrate the process.
• The site should work on a creative level, as well as on a rental equipment level (even though that’s not my primary focus).

The sum total of these goals should show that I have a broad range of experience in visual storytelling; both in development and execution.

And just because I like to include images with each post, here’s a new image I made up for the new site:

This image shows how precise you can be with SketchUp as a pre-production and planning tool. I used SU to plan how the dolly track and jib combo would work (or even if it would work) as it dollies back out the Oakland City Hall main doorway. I was also able to figure out how the sun would hit the stairway and what was needed with an overhead silk to knock out some of the direct sunlight as it changed throughout the morning.