2011年2月14日星期一

up-and-coming filmmaker gets gaming

This was Conaway's University of Southern California student film short "It costs about $400,000 to make an episode of Power Rangers," says Conaway "So if you think about it that way, it's really not that expensive. "Student films typically cost a few thousand bucks — maybe the price of a sedan at most, not a fleet of sedans Sure, Turbo was to be replica Rolex 116234BKSJ Men's watch Conaway's thesis film, but it was to be more: Atypical It's Conaway's calling card This would be a two-years-in-the-*** showcase showing he could use to tell a story and made a slick, effect-heavy film

And ultimately proof that this young, up-and-coming filmmaker gets gaming, the internet, convergence It all started in 2007 No, actually it started before that with karate, *** and video games The Last Dragon inspired a young Conaway to take up replica Rolex 116518-BKDL Men's watch martial arts in junior high, studying Shorin-Ryu style karate and kobudo until he achieved a black belt "There weren't many black action heroes that I was aware of as a kid," he says, "so Bruce Lee Roy fighting Sho-Nuff the Shogun of Harlem on a bootleg VHS was my inspiration.

" (The movie would even go on to inspire the final fight in Turbo!) By high school, he was got a gig as executive editor of game site PSXNetwork. , going to E3 each year starting when he was 16 There was a stint working at Electronic Arts in marketing And then there were movies, loads and loads of movies. Movies took him to USC Film School replica Rolex 116523-MDO Men's watch and to a select motion capture performance class taught by Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis The class got Conaway thinking about the Uncanny Valley Theory, about avatars, about effects and, even, martial arts