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MechaForce

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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:30 pm    Post 1 of 55

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Just dropping in to let you guys know that we're not dead, specifically any rumors of death by explosion are just a misunderstanding.

We've been pretty busy over the last... five years? It's been too long to tell. We've been saving up all the videos and shorts we've done, with the intention of releasing a mega-thread that crashes the site!

We've relocated to Los Angeles, and have been working here with a few other buddies as a directing / vfx team. There is a lot of action out here, and it's pretty great.

There is a ton of stuff that we want to share with the community, especially since the last year has been pretty productive for us - our final "student" project is now public, we're getting a visual effects company off the ground, and we've recently completed our first feature.

More is to come... but in the meantime I recommend that you all check these out:

Greenside - Short Film Created in 2007-2008
www.zerotrooper.com

Dark Island (Trailer) - Feature film we've just finished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZZiDLCMu0c

Our Vimeo Channel - Tons of crazy VFX tests
http://vimeo.com/user1009705

Our company site
www.corridor-digital.com

And yes, we're stilling using prosumer cameras, but that may change soon...

Since there is a lot of content, I may be coming back to edit this first post every once in a while... just a heads up!

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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:42 pm    Post 2 of 55

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Hey guys, it's been a long time since we posted on this forum. After five years of working and learning, we wanted to return and see how this community has evolved, and share with you guys how we've developed from our early days of lightsabers and muzzle flashes created with Alamdv.

This site and community was instrumental to our careers as filmmakers and visual effects artists, and we would love to show you how our work has evolved, and where we stand today.

It will be interesting to see which old recognizable folks still frequent the site!

A brief history on what we've been up to:

After heading off to separate universities, MechaForce eventually transferred to the University of Wisconsin, which is where I was attending school. We continued to do create films and develop our skills in visual effects, which culminated in the creation of the film Greenside.

The trailer for Greenside was noticed by a production company in Los Angeles named Epic Pictures (www.epic-pictures.com), and they offered us a project; a low-budget monster movie!

Not ones to pass up an opportunity, we took on the project, titled "Dark Island". We gathered a crew of friends and found actors, and traveled out to British Columbia, where we entered production for a few months. That was a great experience, and the landscape up there is very beautiful (video from a plane ride we went on- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPgTkE8-EJA)

After wrapping production, we moved out to LA, where we worked on post-production for about eight months. In the meantime, we met many other professionals and filmmakers, and started developing a strong network. Dark Island helped to establish our credibility, and our visual effects work for the size of our budget impressed others in the industry. We found ourselves getting inquiries for visual effects work, so we decided to form a company.

We settled on the name Corridor Digital (not Twisted Studios ), and have seen a fair amount of work come our way through the various people we have met and worked with.

We are still in the process of creating movies as well, and will be starting our next film in the spring. In the meantime we are working on a disaster film with our friend Freddie Wong, about a hailstorm that decimates Seattle.

Needless to say, it's been an interesting few years.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:24 pm    Post 3 of 55

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Hey guys, great to see you again. Also excellent that you are still keeping busy in the video realm. Looking forward to taking a look at some of your projects when i get the time, maybe later today.

I've got the old TS GL1 now.

British Columbia is indeed beautiful country, I'm actually quite near there, on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. If you ever end up filming there again, let me know and I'll crash the set.

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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:24 pm    Post 4 of 55

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Sickly impressive reel, guys. You're talents have grown a s*** ton ha. Glad to see you all kept in the industry! And can't wait to check out Dark Island. If you all ever need anything from our end, don't hesitate. Our entire team is based out here in LA as well.

Anyways, once again impressive stuff as always.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:32 pm    Post 5 of 55

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Axeman wrote:
British Columbia is indeed beautiful country, I'm actually quite near there, on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. If you ever end up filming there again, let me know and I'll crash the set.


Awesome! Next January we'll be in the Seattle area working on a disaster film that some other friends are directing, so we'll be sure to hit you up!
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:51 pm    Post 6 of 55

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Sweet! I'm about 2 hours from Seattle, so keep me posted.

Having watched the reel on your site, as well as the trailer for Dark Island, I gotta say your work continues to impress. It obviously at a different level that it was last time you guys were about the forums, but even in a 'Hollywood' context it holds up nicely. I look forward to watching Greenside.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:05 pm    Post 7 of 55

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Nice vfx demo reel man.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:33 pm    Post 8 of 55

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Whoa. Talk about blast from the past.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:36 pm    Post 9 of 55

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Oh snap. Great stuff, wish you the best of luck. And yeah, I had to part with the camera to Axeman, sad day.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:15 pm    Post 10 of 55

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The prodigal sons from Minnesota have returned. Nice to see you guys are keeping busy and productive; great stuff indeed. I've changed my user name so you may remember me as orion0340. Keep the updates coming, I think we've all been wondering where the hell you guys went.

oh, and one of you guys should really update DXM in the cinema. It's presence has been missed.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:09 am    Post 11 of 55

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Ha, I didn't know it went down. Yeah, we can reupload that. Glad to see a lot of the guys from a long time ago. Any neat projects these last couple of years that we should check out?

Explosion gun wins.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:12 am    Post 12 of 55

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Moreso than DXM, you should really reupload the Making Of. ;D
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:23 am    Post 13 of 55

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Memorial. Now.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:44 am    Post 14 of 55

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Wait, what? You missed its limited edition two-week run?
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:35 am    Post 15 of 55

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Damn that's impressive work! Loved the stuff you have on both the reel and the trailer.
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