Star Wars: Threads of Destiny - Sound Design (highlights)

I know it's been quiet here for a while now, but that does not mean it has not happened a lot of things with the film. We are now very close to a release, so stay tuned for more news and Like us at facebook.com / threadsofdestiny Thank you very much

3d animator - interview

Marcelo Tannure was recently involved in an local tv show interview about his work and lifestyle, but he also mention how he got involved in Threads of Destiny:

(clip in portuguese, sorry)

We are still ALIVE!

Most recently I've received emails from people asking if the project is dead. But all we had was some problem with the website's server. So don't worry we haven't given up on this film.
The film is STILL alive and getting closer and closer to completion. In February we completed 20 shots. This month we've so far completed 3 shots.

Our sound designer Danijel recently switched from PC to Mac, so we made a little set backwards in term of our time schedule, but we are most sure that the result will be much better.

Justin R Durban is working on the music and I was presented with more music from him, and he is working on getting the sound right.

And all our great compositors are doing their best to get the film done. Reels 2-6 are getting close to be completed. Reel 8 is locked and done. Reel1 and reel 7 are the ones containing most complex visual effects the start and climax of the movie. (each reel is about 15 minutes of film)

Thanks from me, until next time.

PS. if there is anyone out there who would like to know more about this project send me an email!

Andreas Rylander interview on SWU

Another interview has been posted on www.starwars-universe.com this time with Andreas Rylander (who portrays Lord Siege)

http://www.starwars-universe.com/actu-7658-star-wars-threads-of-destiny-interview-du-grand-mechant-sith-.html

Another good news is "Week Threads of Destiny could end today with this news on the creation of the SWU sheet of film but I just get no less than 4 new agreements for an interview by the producer, composer (music) the main actor (Raven) and the head of special effects. "

First music recived

Last night Justin R Durban sent me his first version of the first 8 minutes of the film. So far I'm very happy with his work, he has really started to nail the more darker mood and emotion I'm looking for in the score.

I wanted to work with Justin for I think he has a very good sense of mixing both big adventure action packed music with intimate emotional.

My pitch to him about the music is that I want this to be a sort of darker sci-fi then the other Star Wars films. Which normally are very light hearted even thou they are dealing with dark themes. Such as Alien3 and Transformers.
We will use the original opening and end credits music composed by John Williams, to maintain the Star Wars feel to the film. But everything in-between that will be new and introduce you to a new darker Star Wars.

Justin Durban's website: http://www.justindurban.com/

I'm looking forward to hear more from him. Currently he is scoring the space battle of the movie!

Tod - inside the visual effects (video)

Here is (finally) the video I intended to release during christmas holiday, but had to deal with computer errors. Anway, here is an inside look of ToD's visual effects creating during 2009.

Christmas present - from Andreas Feix

Now during christmas holiday, German compositor Andreas Feix put together a reel of some of those shots he made during 2009. Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene.

Click below to check out his awesome work. It's a true honor to get the chance to work with him on this project.

Another video--

Just found another video from the scifi convention in stockholm 2009, and here we see me and ToD's producer Henric Brandt signing posters:



(take a look at 5:41)

Video from Stockholm's Scifi convention

A video from Sweden /Stockholm's scifi convention in early december 2009 has been posted on youtube:



(you can see a brief clip form Threads of Destiny and me at 1:18)

TOD at Sci-fi convention in Sweden 5-6 december 2009

Last weekend myself and my teammates at Branbomm film (www.branbomm.se) where at the Scandinavian Scifi, Game & Film Convention here in Stockholm/Sweden. We where there to represent and talk about "Threads of Destiny" but also our other films" Dead on arrival" "Dead chick in the closet" "Rana" and "Overkill". We had a great time and sold out every DVD copy we had of our finished films. Which I had spent hours and hours the days before to make DVD copies of.




We had a wall full of our posters, and the most eye catching poster was from Threads of Destiny portraying the Sith Lord Siege (Andreas Rylander). One of the best comments I got from someone watching the posters "Is this the new Star Wars TV show they talked about?"

Rasmus Tirzitis' new music video

I know this is not ToD related but, I recently finished a music video for the swedish rock band Stonesilk, here it is:

**NEW** poster

Here is a the new poster for Threads of Destiny. made by Thomas Dahl.

swedish scifi blogg posted...

Swedish tv4 scifi-blogg cecently posted the first pictures of Threads of Destiny's intro clip on their page. here is a link to check it out:
http://sciencefictionbloggen.tv4.se/2009/11/26/screenshots-fran-threads-of-destiny

ADR for TOD...

Just wanted to give a headsup that the ADR (automated dialogue replacement) for Threads of Destiny was finished last night. Or at leas the first pass of the entire film. It was great having all the principle actors back, a few of them I haven't seen to close to a year. We also began with some of the foley (The purpose of foley is to complement or replace sound recorded on set at the time of the filming) for the film.

TOD is like a giant jigsaw puzzle! all pieces needs to be in place for the entirety, or otherwise it will look/sound bad.

Composer receives the film!

Today I'm sending Justin R Durban (justindurban.com) the latest version of the 1 hour and 51 minute long film ( minus the end credits which not yet is complete) and with the latest sound effects layer, so he can begin working on the score.

another note: I've finally recived the opening scroll shot, after more then 2 years in development and many different artists combined efforts I'm happy to show a few screenshots from it:




(current shot count 1131 complete)

October 2009's shot count

October 2009 we manage to finish 45 shots, and we are now at a 59% of completion.
We have 1122 completed VFX shots out of 1897

1100 finished vfx shots!

Today Threads of Destiny post-production reached 1100 finished vfx shots. with 798 to go.

Old tv report on Threads of Destiny

I found an old tv report on set of Threads of Destiny that swedish television aired back in spring 2006.

VFX supervisor gives update

Kristian Nilsen the VFX supervisor for Threads of Destiny got the great idea to give a video update on the project, for alot of people who haven't followed the process of the film. here is the clip:



You can expect more of these video updates this fall and spring

September 2009's shot count

I'm happy to say that september month 2009 we manage to finish 46 shots. In August we finished 28 shots,
Great work the VFX team of Threads of Destiny!