May the 4th Be With You!
Happy Official Star Wars Day!
As some of you know (and most of you probably don’t!). May the 4th is official Star Wars day for obvious reasons. LOL So in honour of today, I post a link to our 2008 Star Wars fan film entitled: Sith Academy, Class of ’87. This movie was produced for the 2008 Atomfilm Star Wars challenge, sadly it was never accepted (Don’t ask me why :S).
I was shot in our studio at NX Martial Arts entirely on Green Screen. Our martial arts cast performed an amazing lightsaber choreography! It was a blast to shoot. Editing on the other hand was quite a nightmare! Frame by frame rotoscoping lightsabers was long and boring and the 3D sets took forever to render.. but we managed and met the deadline. 
Even though we did not make the Atomfilm Challenge, the film was not dead. In Ottawa, it played at the Mayfair Theatre on July 16th 2009. It was a huge local hit!
Check out the movie for yourself and check out the website for more information, pictures and videos: http://www.starwarsottawa.com/
Over 100,000 views!
Our short film Pirates vs Ninjas which was released to YouTube last July just recently passed 100,000 views! Pretty amazing to watch the momentum pick up as a video exponentially goes viral on YouTube. I love reading the comments people leave daily. The feedback has been amazing and the film has created a much heated debate in the comment feed about who would actually win in the a real life confrontation between a pirate and a ninja! Needless to say, some of the comments are pretty hilarious!
If you haven’t yet seen our film, please watch …and let us know what you think!
Enjoy!
Web banner design
I’ve designed several dozen web banners over the years for various businesses, bands and so-on. Web banner design is fun and easy going because resolution is never an issue. With large print files like posters and full size banners, the graphic designer needs full resolution images so the final product doesn’t appear pixelated. However, web banners are probably the smallest file you will ever have to design so image resolution really isn’t that big of deal.
Check out these web banners I have designed:
Click to see the standard Web Banner sizes
Robert Baldwin is a passionate filmmaker, graphic designer and martial artist from Ottawa. He is the co-owner of a local web development and video production company called IMX Productions. For every production and every project, Rob brings along his endless imagination and creative passion. 
