Filmmaking

Making a Liquid Lens from Scratch

How to make a homemade, DIY liquid lens from hardware and drugstore parts! I made a single variable focal length lens element with a few cents of material, and it works!

Here are some stills taken with the lens:

One of my favorite projects so far! Thanks, Eliel, for all your help!

How to Get Everything in Focus!

Quick tip on achieving hyperfocal distance! How to get largest possible depth of field the manual way, as well as how you can calculate it!

Useful Links
Circle of Confusion Calculator: https://goo.gl/Lau7DJ
Circle of Confusion Chart: https://goo.gl/6sCqDm
My LUT Packs: https://goo.gl/zZCG6h

Color Grading sLog Footage with Lumetri

Click the button below to get my S-Log2 Input LUTs!

Conference Opening Animations

I recently designed and animated two keynote opening videos for Laserfiche's annual Empower conference. They were displayed on a giant ultra-wide 4:1 screen, hence the super wide crop.

Shout-out to Eliel Jaimes and Rei Estrada for all their help animating and creating graphics. These wouldn't have gotten done without them.

Here is the video from day one, The Journey...

And day two, The Grid...