Jay Dilla Said :: Workin on it!

So we’re still here.  Don P’s doin his thing, I’m doin my thing, Specialist Music Group is doin their thing, VESL is doin their thing, and most defintiely, Stablished is doin their thing.  Here’s a little sneak peak at the process of what we do.   In this case, we’re about to tackle yet another Don P Music Video.  Here’s the first round of storyboards.  No particular order.  Strictly Pen & Pinot Noir.

VESL :: Introduction from Ra on Vimeo.

ONE mo freestyle and we shall be done with the most infamous EJG vol.2 !!! We here to save the game. PIMP YA PEN PRAHFIT, PRAHFIT PIMP YA PEN!!yeahhh!!!

NO MORE COLD TACOS!!!!

If you have, you already know how Don P feels about it!

I thought it was in interesting conversation… who is in your top 10 or top 20?… Does Luda make your list? I had to really think about that… if yall have an opinion please let me know.. oh and Premo is in my top 5 dj’s hands down! lol!!

88-Keys Interview :: Blind I For The Kids from Ra on Vimeo.
November 11th 2008, No of Blind I For The Kids Interviews Decon recording artist, 88-Keys in San Francisco @ PST. 88-Keys touches on his new album, executive produced by Kanye West, along with the title of his album, his own name, his latest video, thoughts on the election & more. Shot & Edited by Ratha Nou @ StabLabs.com

Locator Test from Ra on Vimeo.

Obviously inspired by Syndrome, this was a test in Cinema 4D, where I :
1. Setup a simple 3d scene & exported 2 null objects with an external compositing tag as ‘locators’.
2. Animated a spline to wrap around my soon to be comped in, keyed out, video footage.
3. Set ‘object buffers’ on my two 3d elements (floor & ribbon), so i could get mattes for comping
4. Render out the animation.
5. Import rendered out elements into After Effects
6. Use Locators to place video footage into 2.5D scene
7. Then use mattes to mask out the areas where the ribbon covers the video footage, to make it look like the ribbon is actually going behind the ladies.
8. Test successful!

A Reminder & a tracking test.

Some inspiration from  Justin Maller, who exists as Superlover & represents Depthcore. Here’s his latest for DC Shoes.