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I’ve wanted to make films since early adolescence. In sixth grade I purchased Steven Spielberg’s Lego Movie Maker Set. It turned out to be one of the best investments I’d ever make. My friends and I used the Lego webcam to create dozens of stop-motion and live-action short films - some good, some strange.
Since then, I’ve gained extensive experience behind the camera in television production, wedding shoots, black and white film, and production assistance for other production companies such as Apple Inc.’s Educational Division. In addition, I have developed my skills in graphic art, website design, and 3d modelling.
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Email Address:mail@timcollinsmedia.comBased out of Madison, WI.Phone Number: (608) 352-0TIM
Parallel Kingdom has come a long way. It started out simple; give people control in a parallel kingdom through the technology of GPS navigation. It has grown and grown, and reached it's third major installment, the Age of Emergence. This new age will commence upon the discovery of four scrolls, each containing valuable information. When these scrolls are brought together, a power will be unlocked, sending the world into a new age. Special thanks to my roommate Clayton for recording the voice over many times and again just to achieve narrative perfection.
For my Documentary Course we were required to shoot a one minute "quickie doc" portraying a stranger. We could choose anyone for this project. For my subject I went to Madison's famous State Street. I found Bok Choy playing her accordian, the Dream Machine. If you have not done so yet, watch the documentary and then continue reading below.
My goal with this short was to depict this young woman's innocence and sweetness; she has expressiveness and desires to be loved and accepted. This introduction is then contrasted by the final shot establishing the environment around her, the necesity for her to deal with disrespectful drunks and artistic apathy.
This observational documentary was designed to capture the process of food being prepared. I decided to take a passive approach to filming Clayton making his cake. In this case it meant that I did not interfere with the cake making process, except to ask him periodically to pause until I was ready and give me updates on his progress. My goal with this piece was to make the audience salivate. Textures and close action helped tell this story in under one minute.
After 4 months of tutorials, modeling, animating, four hour classes, and three days of rendering Sub Rosa was ready to turn in as my semester project. I modeled the soldier from scratch, shaping it in 3D, textured it and applying a skeleton to it. The environment was a collection of my own work and downloaded structures, such as the gun and the pickup truck. I designed the scene and setup the cinematography and lighting based on experience from my set design class as well as my personal asthetic experience. Read on to see more 3D design work created over the semester, as well as stills from my process and animations.
The day before we shot it, my friends and I scripted up this two and a half minute short narrative to test out our comedic abilities. Apart from the steaming fresh script, my main interests in shooting this video lay in the speedy acquisition of a Panasonic HD camera and fluid head tripod. Although I think our lighting could use some improvement (mainly the creation of more depth to the scene) I am rather proud of the editing job. In all, we had over 40 takes.
I created this video to bring to light the need for volunteers for our church's setup crew. Our Sunday meeting is located in a school, so it is necessary for us to reconstruct the entire stage, sound setup, concessions, and overflow area every week. I myself have served with the crew, and was then made aware of their constant need for additional help. The song used for the soundtrack was composed by Hans Zimmer for the show The Contender and is available for free download at the official site.
I created this documentary for my 2nd semester film class my freshman year of college. For this particular project we were able to choose our own topics of interest to explore as long as the final cuts were not longer than 10 minutes. I did actually break this barrier by 31 seconds, but was forgiven by the class and teacher. The idea for this video was given to me by my parents who suggested I interview some of the members of the Maurice S. Surlow Senior Residences, dedicated to serving Russian Jews. It was conveniently located right across the street from my apartment and made for some interesting, and moving, conversation.
Since fall 2008 I have been working with PerBlue developing logos, banners and ingame art. Here are some examples of work completed.
For one and a half years I worked at the Digital Media Center as a multimedia consultant. During that time I had the opportunity to work in many graphic design aspects. Here are a few examples
(Left) I created this walking soldier during my first animation course at UW-Madison, and then employed him in the production of (Right) Sub Rosa. I composed this scene using many elements created from scratch, such as the trees, and several downloaded elements, such as the pickup truck. With so many things filling the screen, I wanted to create the feeling of a dense forest, where one could get lost or be hidden easily. Gobos (or patterned lights) come from above, giving the illusion of a forest canopy, and a flat backdrop of sillouetted trees gives the scene illusory depth.
I have designed all of these website from the ground up, creating their form and function in HTML and CSS, as well as their style and graphical compositions from scratch.
