Undead Directors Michael & Peter Spierig
Posted on Monday, June 27th, 2005 at 16:17.
Hott twin Directors Michael and Peter Spierig visited my Inside the Entertainment Industry class today. They discussed their issues and success in finding Lions Gate Films as a distributor for their independent movie Undead.
As a new media major, I was particularly interested in that the brothers share credit for 3D animation and 2D compositing. Not many director hyphenates include these positions. That’s just cool. The guys said they used a digital intermediate process, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, NewTek LightWave 3D, and Autodesk Combustion. I cringed until they said that they have since switched to the Mac platform and love Final Cut Pro because they had too many issues using Windows and the aforementioned software. “Never again,” the brothers lamented about their software choice. They simply used what they had and learned from online tutorials to achieve each of the 305 effects. The effects work in the trailer looked great. I can’t wait to see my first Australian film.
If either of you ever Google your name and find my blog, thanks for stopping by Emerson. I enjoyed talking with you.
