James Cawley's WILD, WILD WEST series is beginning production, and Pony Horton just created and released this establishing shot depicting the Lincoln White House in 1865.
This shot was based directly on Matthew Brady's image of the same era, and was created using Photoshop, LightWave 3D, and After Effects.
Pony Horton and Gravity Arch Media are proud to have been a part of the new documentary film RESCUE MEN - THE STORY OF THE PEA ISLAND LIFE SAVERS.
RESCUE MEN has garnered numerous film festival awards, including Winner of the San Francisco Film Festival 2011.
One of our jobs was creating the title sequences from the film. Here is the Opening Title Sequence...
Pony R. Horton, owner of Gravity Arch Media, is pleased and honored to have been chosen by the Cawley Entertainment Group to create new visual effects for their smash-hit web series, STAR TREK: PHASE II !
After loving STAR TREK since 1966, it's a thrill to finally become "One of The Family!"
Well, as of July, 2011 we are finishing visual effects on our sixth episode of STAR TREK: PHASE II. We are also in the early phases of effects for the newest episode, MIND-SIFTER.
So far, our work, from Transporters to matte paintings to set extensions to phaser hits and other visual effects that make STAR TREK unique, has been (or will be) seen in the PHASE II episodes:
Blood & Fire Parts 1 and 2
Kitumba
Enemy: Starfleet
Origins
The Child
Mind-Sifter
Below are a few of the latest shots from the recently released ENEMY: STARFLEET, starting with a special treat for those of us who've loved STAR TREK since The Original Series... Engineering finally gets its Warp Core!
And here is a special SNEAK LOOK at a new matte shot for the upcoming episode ORIGINS, the story that takes us back to young Jim Kirk's days at Starfleet Academy.
Here is a test shot of a visualization of The Big Bang. This is a low-rez file, done with Photoshop and Lightwave.
Venturing further into 3D Land, Gravity Arch Media recently produced this short clip, below, of CGI footage as a form of "background plate" showing a floor-by-floor ascent in the cage-type elevator of The Farraday Building, fictional home of private investigator Toby Peters, beloved mystery sleuth character of award-winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky. Toby Peters stars in 25 novels, all set in Los Angeles of the early 1940's. Gravity Arch Media is proud to be associated with Stuart Kaminsky, and you can find this clip on the Toby Peters section of his website, www.stuartkaminsky.com
Here is a Hi-Rez still of the same scene, from a different angle.
And here is the first finished shot from Gravity Arch Media's current production, a long-form spot for Baron Hats, featuring Toby Peters. Here we see Toby descending in the Farraday's elevator.
Here are two tests I created for a company logo in 3D. Simple, low-rez stuff.
Above is a spot we produced for Fountain of Grace.
Below are two tests of transporter effects from STAR TREK (Original Series) and STAR TREK: The Next Generation.
And here is another test of the Star Trek transporter effect, this time at Vasquez' Rocks... er, uh, we mean "Cestus III."
The interesting part of this effect is the fact that the second man walks right up behind the one who is being "beamed" as the effect is happening, and you can see through the transportee to the action beyond. Normally, the easy way to do this would be against a Greenscreen, but we decided to "up the ante" a bit and shot it live, on location, IN ONE SINGLE PASS. We did not use two separate takes and matte them together, nor did we compress the time in the take. Unfortunately, the "sparkle" effect is digitally-created flat artwork, and so it lacks the hydro-dynamic effects of the originals, which were achieved by high-speed filming of Alka Seltzer in hot water. Of course, we had to make this scene at least A LITTLE silly...
This is where you will find video clips of various Gravity Arch Media productions, from commercial spots to scenes from documentaries and instructional videos.