Digital Filmmaking DVD's | Developing Digital Short Films

This HD 3D animated feature tale is getting closer and closer to the screen. In fact we are so consumed with working on this project, that other ones are slowing down a bit. Minds Eye Media is now in the preproduction phase of "The Bigfoot Shamans" based on the example story from the book "Developing Digital Short Films." The new DVD workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast" is being used to develop the story. More big news on this front soon! Drawing above by Aryikia.

Geomagnetic has partnered up with the biggest record company in psytrance Spun Records. Lots of new 3D animated mix DVDs coming soon for the Growling Mad Scientists and other big names.

A new version of MyFlik.com is being posted over the next few weeks with lots of free articles and videos on how to make your own digital films with great stories. Ratatouille will be the main new example story deconstructed online to show how many of the techniques Sherri teaches in Writing A Great Script Fast, were used to create this near perfect film.

1000's of new green film story ideas will be posted on MyFlik over the next few months. New video downloads of the workshop movies will also soon be available.

CG the largest and only CG magazine in China did a three page career track story on Sherri Sheridan for their July 2008 edition.

Do I look a little pale? This picture above was taken a few hours before I was rushed to the emergency room in Beijing. Coming soon new movies and tall tales from Sherri's month long story teaching tour throughout China! See The Great Wall, Forbidden City, Beijing, Shanghai, cool houses, exotic food and animation companies doing amazing work all over China.

Writing A Great Script Fast Goes To China, India & Beyond...

Sherri went on a worldwide teaching tour in 2008. The new "Writing A Great Script Fast" DVD workshop is based on the book "Developing Digital Short Films" published in April of 2004 by New Riders/ Peachpit/ Pearson Education. This book is now being used as a textbook in hundreds of film and animation schools around the world. Graduate schools, colleges, high schools, UNICEF programs, Youth Media Programs, film schools and grades schools are all using the book to help students tell their own stories with digital tools. There is even a kindergarten teacher in North Carolina using this book to create films with a group of five year olds!

A big thanks to all of the wonderful people who have sent inspiring emails and film links about their experiences working with the new book!

Writing A Great Script Now Using Video Server Technology

Several US school systems are now in the process of integrating the new DVD workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast" into their curriculum as the official story class for their schools! By using our new MyFlik Video Server Teaching Technology™ this will only cost about $2 per student per year. Los Angeles County Schools will be one of the first to start using it in January 2008. If your school is interested in trying this out please send an email with the subject "DVD Workshop Video Server."

MyFlik Goes To DV Expo West

Free Writing A Great Script Fast classes were taught at the DV Expo! A big hello to all our new friends who came to visit us in the MyFlik booth at the LA Convention Center where several new products were launched including the new Minds Eye Media DVD stock series and the 20 hour WAGSF DVD Workshop. Sherri taught several free classes including:

"Story For Digital Filmmaking"

Wednesday at 11:30am in Room 306

"Writing A Great Script Fast"

"Cool Tools Panel" Thursday 10-11:30am in the Presentation Theater

Minds Eye Media Does Hit Comedy Central TV Show

Xavier Fallen Angel gets picked up for Season Two after the debut episode soars in the ratings! This computer animated TV show was created by a team of San Francisco independent animators - some of whom have known each other for over 15 years. Minds Eye Media did several minutes of shots for the new Xavier Comedy Central Adult Swim TV Show now playing on Sunday nights. Most of our shots are in Episode 10 during the psychedelic scenes.

Try out the all new 20 hour DVD workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast" based on the book "Developing Digital Short Films". The full length 94 minute sample "Writing A Great Script Fast In A Nutshell" has been posted along with the PDF file:

Minds Eye Media Does The Allman Brothers DVD

Minds Eye Media did the visuals for The Allman Brothers latest tour and their new best of live show DVD coming out soon. Clips from these shows and many more will be included on the 10 new Minds Eye VJ DVDs also coming soon.

Elton John's 60th Birthday Bash On DVD

A new Blu-ray HD DVD version of this historic show is now available. Playing on huge screens behind the performance on March 25th at Madison Square Garden were some fresh 3D HD visuals done by Minds Eye Media. We did the visuals for 13 of the 18 songs including the big 6oth 3D birthday background. NBC broadcast this event on April 12, 2007 and you can watch it here.

What's Hiding In Your TV Shows?

Listen to Sherri's new radio interview on the show "If These Walls Could Talk" with the subject "What's Hiding in Your Favorite TV Shows?" Find out what you’re REALLY watching when you watch TV by joining Katherine Morris, the Setting Shrink, Emmy-award winning President of the Writers Guild of America, west, Patric M. Verrone, and Sherri Sheridan, Creative Director at Minds Eye Media, and the creator of animations and digital films, for a rare in-depth discussion of the making of television shows.

Nate's record companies GeoMagnetic and GOA Records now have over 4000 songs, CDs and DVDs in their catalogs! Many of these songs and CDs are now on iTunes, CD Baby and BeatPort. These two record companies are quickly growing into the largest psytrance and electronic music labels and distributors in the world. "GeoSpirit1 Virtual Vortex" is one of Dr. Spook's latest 3D visual DVD experience featuring over 60 minutes of new original 3D Maya footage set to eleven fresh trance songs. Click here to watch and hear this DVD online along with some other new ones! GeoMagnetic has now shifted into DVD mode and will be releasing about 20 new VJ style DVD experiences in the next few months.

Minds Eye Media did some visuals for the Bonnaroo music festival in June of 2007 and returned again in 2008 to do even more sets. Doctor Spook played lots of new trance music and 3D animated visuals in Tennessee this June. He performed on Thursday, Friday (Silent Disco) and Saturday nights, and is now off on a worldwide tour for the summer. Clips from these shows and many more will be included on the 10 new Minds Eye VJ DVDs coming soon.