Our iphone development branch has been working with MassiveWar Studios on a new iphone game. We’re hoping to finish and release the game sometime in July 2011. The game is called Monkey Escape and you can check out the game details here.

We created a game intro video for MassiveWar Studios.  The animation was created and rendered in Cinema 4d.  Color correction and sound was composed in After Effects.

We finished a 30 second spot the other day with music artist, Joey Gaskin.

Everything was shot in our studio using a green screen.  We then used After Effects for our compositing and visual effects.

Music was mixed and added the finishing touches to the spot.

Here’s a quick tutorial I did showing some of the visual effects in our film Foxhole.

I explain simple shooting technics out in the field to help you prepare your footage for post production.

Check it out!  If you’ve got questions, hit me up!

We recently produced and submitted our own Doritos commercial for the Superbowl video contest.

The story line takes place in a park. The opening shot is of two guys who are sitting on two different park benches.  One is a nerd with a bag of Doritos.  The second is waiting for this girl friend with flowers.  Then with the power of Doritos, the unthinkable happens.

There was a CG scene that required the boy friend to be smashed by a Doritos bus. This was completed with After Effects and Photoshop.

Watch and laugh!

Here’s the commercial on Doritos’ website.

“Doritos Makes the Difference”

Six finalists will be chosen and given $25,000 cash prize by December 21, 2009. Then America will vote on the six and the top three commercials will go and be aired at this year’s Superbowl. Then whichever commercial is voted 1st, 2nd or 3rd on the USA Today meter after the superbowl, the prizes are 1st ($1,000,000), 2nd ($600,000) and 3rd ($400,000).

We’ve had a lot of people view our commercial and thankfully we’ve had a lot of laughs.

Some of the screenshots of the final commercial are shown below.

Director: Justin Robinson

Director of Photography:  Michael Gentilini, Jr.

Plot: Being a new Christian has it’s challenges. However, it’s amazing how much power there is in prayer. You’re about to witness the power of God, His Word and the power of prayer.

We shot down in Taylors SC on Saturday.

We had about 20 extras.  The director (Justin Robinson), his brother Jeff, and good friend Joe were the main characters.

We’re now in the process of post production.

After much planning and preparation, we completed a 12 hour shoot Friday night. From 4:00pm until 4:00am our team captured the required shots.

We had a few complications with fighting the rain which slowed down production time.

For now, the commercial details are under wraps, but I will say this commercial is for the Doritos Superbowl video contest. If we win, the commercial will be aired on national television at the upcoming Superbowl.

Below are some “behind the scenes” production photos.

Producer: Michael Gentilini, Jr.

Gentilini Video Entertainment

Director: Benjamin Schultz

Co-producer: Andrew Schultz

New Classic Entertainment

From left to right:

Director (Benjamin), Co-producer (Andrew) and Producer (Michael).

The actors: Bryan and Gaynell.

Completing Bryan’s costume.

The judging for the Full Throttle and Coca-Cola video contest will take place this month. Here is the completed Full Throttle commercial.

Enjoy!

We’ve recently Co-Produced a Radon commercial with New Classic Entertainment.

Benjamin Schultz with New Classic Entertainment directed the commercial. I, Michael was DP (Director of Photography), and Visual/FX supervisor.

We entered the commercial into the EPA video contest. There were 30 entries from various cinematographers. I’m happy to say, our commercial won 1st place!

It was recently shown at the Radon convention in Vegas.

Its the first “User-Generated” commercial to be used as marketing for a government organization.

Check out the completed commercial below.