Digital Filmmaking DVD's | Developing Digital Short Films

Avatar is the new Star Wars for this generation of digital filmmakers. The visual fourth wall has just been shattered inviting the audience to now be in the film they are watching during a 3D IMAX type viewing experience. As a filmmaker and writer, you now have to consider things like Z depth, and how your story can literally reach out and grab the audience from the screen in full 3D glory – every scene. New Articles coming soon in the big 2010 April NAB edition of Student Filmmakers Magazine!

What is the cheapest and easiest type of feature film for one person or a small team to make these days? I would say a highly stylized 2D animated Southpark looking cartoon. Why? Because no one can say it does not look right or real. New Articles coming soon in the big April 2010 NAB edition of Student Filmmakers Magazine! Longer versions of each new article will be posted on MyFlik.com soon with videos.

3D Maya Made Easy How To Videos

Nate and Sherri are making a new series of easy how to Maya 3D videos. Also covered will be After Effects and other programs we use to make digital fimmaking a snap. Join the MyFlik Newsletter today to hear about special new deals and announcements first. Send an email here and place "MyFlik Newsletter" in the subject line.

New Super Cool Websites Coming Soon

New websites coming soon for MyFlik.com and GeoMagnetic.tv! Lots of new downloads for video and audio. Over 7000+ songs, videos, stock footage clips and Ebooks coming soon. MyFlik's new free online film school is going up. A new series of 3D animated DVDs is getting ready to hit the planet.

Minds Eye Media will be going back to our 3D animation roots and releasing 30+ 3D animated DVDs in the next year. Lots of tips for the indie filmmaker or musician on how to make a living doing what you love will also be coming your way in 2010. There has never been a better time to be a free creative person! This MEM website will be getting a big facelift in 2010 too, with 1000's of video downloads and stock clips.

Coming soon the whole 20 hour story development process from the new workshop will be posted online as an interactive point, click and enter story engine. Video downloads in Quicktime of the entire workshop will also be available. This amazing new interactive tool will help you to create a great script fast online in a snap!

A new series of articles by Sherri Sheridan on story for digital filmmaking started appearing in Student Filmmakers Magazine in March 2009. This new preproduction and screenwriting series will continue. The first article was "10 Tips For Great Dialogue," and the big anniversary NAB April issue "40 Plot Points For A Feature Film."

Welcome to all the new Chinese filmmakers and animators! A new Chinese version of the book was published in March 2009.

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.

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 workshop and book are now being used as a the official story class 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 workshop and book to help students tell their own stories with digital tools. There is even a kindergarten teacher in North Carolina using the 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 DVD workshop and 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.

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.