The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Sharing Good Ideas

Awhile ago we looked at The Monster Engine, where Dave Devries turns childrens’ drawings of fantastical monsters into professional renderings of the very same beasts.  If you haven’t checked it out, it’s pretty cool, and a great simple idea worth repeating.

Yesterday Very Short List blasted about Yeedoo Jung who in 2005 took childrens’ drawings and turned them into professionally render photographs akin to movie sets.  They are pretty cool too.  Check them out here.

It’s great how good ideas are never held by one person alone, but that all over the globe people are thinking the same thing, only a wee bit different.

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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