CASTING CALL PART 2 !!!

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Orange County Partnership 2011 Tour Highlights

What an exciting day for 8 Hats High! Here are some highlights behind the scenes for the Orange County Partnership's 2011 Broker Tour...







Orange County Partnership: Celebrating their 25 Year







Setting up the Equipment







It was a good day. :)

Orange County Partnerships Virtual Tour | TH-Record

Yesterday we launched a project we completed for OC Partnership. Take a look at the press they recieved...

Congrats Everyone.

Times Harold Record Article

Special Thanks to all that worked on this project. You all Rock.

8 Hats High Casting Call!!!

Accepting submissions all week long, send in or contact at any time! Mon-Friday 9:00 am - 7:00pm

8 Hats High is shooting a small commercial and are looking for 6 main characters. Please view description and if you or someone you know might be interested please contact me: sonha@hatshigh.com *female child (6-8 yrs. old)
*male child (3-5 yrs. old)
*female (30 yrs. old)
*male (mid- 30's)
*female (elderly)
*male (elderly)
A few notes:
- keep in mind that the female child needs to be very articulate, she will be the main actor of the commercial.
-we prefer to have the talents live close by in and the surrounding orange county ny and hudson valley area (just looking out for the commuters, don't want you guys driving far, but if you're still interested... come on down!).
-this is for a non-for- profit group. :-)
-please submit a headshot with contact information, reliable e-mail is acceptable, no facebook - sorry :-(.... and height info.
-headshot photos do not have to be professional, as long as it's a frontal photo to where the face can be clearly seen would be great! at least a 3 month old photo so it's current.
-any changes in photos should be addressed ie: you had curly hair 3 months ago and now you have dreads... please note that ;-) it might or might not work for our client, you never know..
-we are looking for a diverse group of talent, so no matter what size, age, race or height you are... send over some headshots!
-we know you want to do it, so whether you want to hang out with the 8 Hats High Animation staff for a week, have bragging rights, or want to build a portfolio, send in your headshot. It's a great portfolio builder being that this is for a non-for-profit group, so you will be contributing time to a good cause and gain some face time in the process! either way... you're a winner!

it's the summer time, come do something different! Visiting some relatives for the summer in Orange County and baby cousins getting on your nerves? Send in a headshot. just do it.
- sonha@8hatshigh.com

Designed Around You Commercial

Orange Regional Medical Center's new hospital is set to open in the summer of 2011. With the design of the hospital based around the needs of their patients, this animated commercial highlights some of the exciting new services coming to the region.

for more information, check out:
www.ormcnewhospital.com

Orange County Partnership's New Website Design

8 Hats High had the privilege of designing Orange County Partnership's new website which launched today. Teaming up with Belsito Communication to program the site, the website not only boosts the Partnership into todays technology with its new design and functionality, but it has, by far one of the best databases for local business in Orange County.

Please don't be shy - visit them at www.ocpartnership.org and see it for yourself.

EVENTS are happening for sure!

Hello Everyone -

Just dropping a quick line to say that we are ALIVE... The factory is in full production :)

There have been some exciting deliveries that we are about to release into the wild. check back for more updates and events.

We are preparing.... stay tuned.

Stoutridge Vineyard 2D Logo Animation

StoutRidge Animation

Animation:

8 Hats High Animation is looking for parents!!!

8 Hats High is working on a local television commercial for a project that requires a loving, caring family to stand in the foreground of a 3D animated background. There are no dialogues involved, just put on your best and smile! These are the the players that we are looking for: Two adults, 1 male and 1 female in their 30's to early 40's. They are going to play the role of husband and wife holding a child and smiling. And... scene! If you are interested or know someone with a winning smile and wants to be a parent for an hour, please contact Sonha Bowen with head shots and resume at: Sonha@8hatshigh.com Thank you in advanced future family and we will see you soon! Please e-mail at info above for further information.

Creating a welcoming website.

Hello everyone and welcome back to another exciting blog post :). We recently wrapped up on a Timelapse style animation for the Federation of Jewish Men's Club. And now without further a-DO - the finished project.

Enjoy!!



For more information regarding the video above, please visit www.fjmc.org

8 Hats High's Open Studio Event

8 Hats High Will be open to the public October 16th - October 17th 11:00am - 5:00pm as part of Orange County Arts Council's OPEN STUDIO TOUR. We will display how animation is created for cartoons as well as demonstrate our motion capture stage. All is welcome to come by.

See you there.

Lawyerbid.com Commercials

8 Hats High animated 4x :15 second spots for lawyerbid.com.










Credits: Love Advertising (Creative), Ell Creative (Production / Sound Design), John Grimaldi Jr. (Animation Producer / Animator), Dan Madia (Character Design / Storyboards), Phillip Krauss (Animator), John Stoltz (Clean-up Artist), Lianna Alberg (Digital Artist), Kyle Bennington (Compositor).

United Way's Imagine: Production Photos / Before and After

8 Hats High was contacted by the United Way of Orange County to enhance their new marketing campaign for 2011. They were looking for us to produce a commercial that represented how donations were used in the community as well as incorporate an aspect from the donator's perspective. We were given a quick debriefing on what it means to "Live United" and immediately - we began the brainstorming process and came up with some great ideas. Once we solidified an idea we were happy with, we presented it to the United Way and followed it up by creating a rough storyboard animatic.

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[ Rough Animatic ]

This gave everyone a good sense of how it felt and look before filming were to began.

Once approved....we assembled our team, scouted locations, cast the talent and we were off.

We decided the best format to shoot this project on was the Canon 5D Mark ii. (what a great camera). We broke out the cranes, steady cam's and the slate. :)

In the wee hours of the morning (6:30am) we set up our first scene on Saturday August 14th.

Our actors remained calm, cool and collected in the hot blazing sun. From Beacon to Chester, Middletown then Pinebush...

We worked our pants off!

[ our crew hard at work... ]

We setup a Green Screen in various locations for compositing reasons.. but as the day grew later, the wind started to pick up. So, we did the best thing we could... we made Phil and Kyle anchors. They were great at it.

[Arrr... Anchor away Maytey]

This scene was broken into 2 different sets. First we filmed the big reveal with nothing but a green screen, the actor and a fence. Second was shot in another location so we can recreate a graduation. [See the Breakdown is below for before and after]

We finished the Day off in Pine Bush around 6pm.... The follow day we filmed the remaining scenes of the spot.

Sunday, At New Paltz, NY - we had quite a challenge in front of us. We had to create a graduation scene, but all we had was approximately 7 extras that showed up.

[our graduates!]

So, we began and made magic happen.... (This was going to be some hardcore coordination)

and from that... after setting up the green screens, prepping the extras, playing musical chairs, eating pizza, drinking redbull and watching the rain turn on turn off... We made it all come together. Check out the 2 clips below for the Before and After.

[Before and After]

[Before and After]

We finished out the rest of the remaining video in our studio in middletown, NY.

THEN....

yAAAAAAy! that's a wrap!

We moved right into a few weeks of Compositing, Animation and Finalizing the Music.

8 Hats High is so excited to be a part of the Live United Campaign. It was truly an amazing experience! We really appreciate the patience and traveling that our actors had to do, standing out in the baking heat and our second day shoot - standing out in the rain and being ordered around! Thank you so much everyone for being the "magic" of our project! We also would like to give our "magicians" a big hand for putting this all together. Our crew did an incredible job with equipment, travel, weather and intense last minute situations, you guys all rocked!

United way - Give where you live.

This was a poster that we designed for the United Way. Theres no place like home, Give where you live.

3D Models

Orange Regional Medical Center: New Hospital

Orange Regional Medical Center from Johnny G Junior on Vimeo.

Motion Capture Tests

Finkelstein and Partners

These Finkelstein and Partners commercials we animated won a NORI Award

Motion Capture Complete: Common Health.

8 Hats High completed motion capture work for Common Health. Working with Common health was such a pleasure. It is always great working with such creative people.











We are excited how everything came together. Please visit Common Health's website to see the final product. Great work Common Health.





http://www.commonhealth.com/