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Official Movie Site Gets Facelift No. 2

Phil McCoy — Sun, 08 May 2011 19:31:58 +0000

Spiral Productions LLC has just completed a major overhaul of the Official Project London Movie Site. The previous version of the site served us well until it became clear that to show more clips, content and visuals, we needed to completely re-theme our WordPress content management system. The new site still utilizes the WordPress CMS and was heavily customized to work for the movie. We believe this upgraded site will take us through the release of the movie.

New features on the site include among other things, a character gallery, and pages for the Graphic Novel and Project Manhattan.

Project London is an independent, no-budget, feature-length, live action movie with vivid, intense, and marrow-vibrating visual effects and animations created with the open source software Blender (and other traditional software) and 250 (or so) worldwide volunteers. It’s led by The Triumvirate and set in Seattle, Washington. It will be available for worldwide viewing in its entirety very soon. In the meantime, check out the cool article about us on the Wired UK website.

Project London: Unleashed!

Phil McCoy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:12:39 +0000

Synopsis: A homeless race of aliens known as Nalardians have found and been given refuge on Earth. A young man, Nebraska Higgins, is unwittingly thrust into a struggle for a planet in peril. His enigmatic father and sole pilot of the iconic robotic green exosuit, Arizona, is taken from him during a hot pursuit by the Joint Command (the global police and military force). The London Underground, a rag tag resistance force, appear to be interested in recruiting Nebraska, but he’s confused by his tragic loss and manipulative Joint Command Officers. Old and secret government experiments gone horribly wrong have been resurrected with horrific ramifications. Can Nebraska come to grips with the loss of his father as interplanetary calamities threaten to destroy the world around him? The fate of the planet hangs on the potential in a young man’s heart.

The visual effects for the film are being created using Blender, open source software. This is perhaps the first feature length film to combine live action elements with animations created using Blender. Which is why there are thousands of Blender users around the globe anxiously awaiting the release of this film.

Our release plans include entering the film in festivals, securing distribution through iTunes and Netflix and selling disks and merchandise directly from the film’s web site. Ramping up to the release, there will be significant efforts to reach the film’s audience through social media, a series of viral videos, press releases to appropriate media and other marketing stratagems. The release will begin with select city premieres and appearances at sci-fi and graphic novel conventions and events.

Additional promotional considerations are available including co-branding on limited runs of disks and packaging. Each of our select city premieres are prime co-branding opportunities. And we are completely open to creating special events for large groups including companies interested in including a showing of the film.

Partial Credits:

(complete credits here)

Phil McCoy, Executive Producer
Nathan McCoy, Executive Producer
Ian Hubert, Writer, Director, Editor, Animator, Lead Compositing Artist
J.A. Forbes, Assistant Director, Production Manager
Barry Gregg, Director of Photography

1st Clip from Project London Released

Phil McCoy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:09:51 +0000

This clip, Benny’s Fuel and Repair, was created and released to attract Blender Artists to our project; the science fiction action adventure film, Project London, written and directed by Ian Hubert.

This is the first clip that we released from the movie and we are darn proud of the work everyone is doing to make this movie really cool.