Jani Sourander

I made a short film for Meduusa TV. It’s inspired by the concept of pink noise. Enjoy.

I made four channel idents/bumpers for our school’s Internet tv channel. The theme was the meaning christmas (and how it has changed.)

I was backing up my archive and went through some of my oldest (digital) images. Back then my images were mostly graphical tests with lines, tones, colours and geometrical primitives. I thought it would be good idea to share some of my early work, so here it is:

The (not yet ready) Protagonist

Yesterday I printed out my seminar work. The title is “Stereoskooppisen stop motion -animaation kuvakäsikirjoitus” (Storyboard for stereoscopic stop motion animation).

I will shoot the stop motion in Q1/2012 and do my thesis about its post processing. I will be using my Nikon D700 camera, Manfrotto’s micro-positioning plate and NukeX software with Ocula plugin. As my license is for student work only, the final short movie will be free of charge for everyone. I’m planning of sharing it through The Pirate Bay in 1080p (or even 4K) full side-by-side or sequential format, but if the court of appeal and/or supreme court decides to block all Elise DNA connections to The Pirate Bay, I’ll have to find another way.

Of course I will upload it to Youtube also, but Youtube’s video quality doesn’t please everyone. Especially with 3D, which requires more from the image quality than 2D. The film itself will be shot in 4K+ resolution, so even 1080p is downscaled. The movie should be ready till christmas 2012.

If you want to see something right away, go and see this cool 3D stop motion.

Practicing the talent of not to be seen?

A three-legged dog without a head. Or a partially invisible dog.

A hidden man's penis. Need more proof?

I think it goes without saying that someone is missing from the photograph.

What hidden people? Read an article from wikipedia and get confused.

Here’s another 2D to 3D conversion. Original material was shot in stereo (by fxphd), but something has gone wrong and images are out of sync. Problem is fixed by rotoing a depth map, displacing the plate in 3D space and then filming it with a virtual stereo rig (=two cameras).

I suggest watching it in 720p and with anaglyph (red/cyan) glasses. The video is in optimized anaglyph.

My interest towards stereoscopic stills and videos (“3D movies”) has grown recently. Here is a short video clip of one of my practices.

If you have Anaglyph glasses (red/cyan), it’s time to put those on. In the future I may be even giving side-by-side material for those who own 3D television or some nVidia 3D Vision compatible monitor and glasses.

Go and see it HERE.

All the photos has been taken during May-July 2011 while I was working for newspaper Keskisuomalainen. Don’t use them without the newspaper’s permission.

Now it’s time to continue doing vfx practices.