Paper Turtle - Even the Invisible Need Friends. And Makeup.

One of my favorite projects that I ever had a privilege of working on was in the fall of 2009 while I was living in north Philadelphia. This is a film by Temple grad student and Messiah College alum Jonathan Stutzman. He's one of my favorite people to work with. I loved working with the children in this film. I got credit for makeup and hair styling, but I did a lot of child-wrangling as well!

Paper Turtle from James Knightly on Vimeo.

The Mime's Song

Last May, I had a chance to co-produce and do makeup on a film involving a mime. I had a great time working on this project, since the people I worked with are basically my family. The script was written by Michael Helms. This was a project that was created from the collaboration of the Messiah Filmmakers Society.

Water/Fire

My typography project for Digital Production class. Final Cut Pro using traveling alpha mattes .

I restarted this project several times before I was happy with it... I think I'm always too critical on myself, but that's what makes us strive to be better. I ended up having a lot of fun with mattes. FCP is awesome.