VFX Breakdown | Star Wars Toy Stories by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA March 22, 2021 We recently published visual effects breakdown videos for the three short films in our award-winning series Star Wars Toy Stories. You can watch all three VFX breakdown videos here. Tags: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Maya, Film, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Uncategorized, VFX, Visual Effects | No Comments »
Official Selection | Zed Fest Film Festival by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 16, 2015 Our short film Star Wars: A Toy Story is an Official Selection of the Zed Fest Film Festival. The festival will take place in Burbank, CA from November 5 – 8, 2015. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Official Selection | Rhode Island Comic Con Film Festival by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 15, 2015 Our short film Star Wars: A Toy Story is an Official Selection of the Rhode Island Comic Con Film Festival. The festival will take place in Providence, RI from November 6 – 8, 2015. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Super Geek Film Fest @ Magic City Comic Con by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 13, 2015 Our short film Star Wars: A Toy Story is an Official Selection of the Super Geek Film Festival at Magic City Comic Con The convention is taking place in Miami, FL from January 15 – 17, 2016. We’ll post more info… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars: A Toy Story – Now on Google+ by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA September 20, 2015 Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story now has a Google+ page!!! Follow us for all the latest news. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Trailer | Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA September 2, 2015 Check out this trailer for our film screening tomorrow at the San Diego CityBeat Five Minute Festival. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, Trailer, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
A Message from Drew by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA August 26, 2015 I finally found the time to illustrate a poster for our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story. If you know me, then you know I’m a huge fan of legendary poster artist Drew Struzan. Believe it or… read more Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Drew Struzan, Film, Graphic Design, Illustration, Poster, Star Wars Posted in Film, Graphic Design, Illustration, Poster Design | Comments Off
3rd Annual San Diego CityBeat Five Minute Film Festival by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA August 22, 2015 Our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story is an Official Selection at the 3rd Annual San Diego CityBeat Five Minute Film Festival. Watch it on the big screen this coming Thursday at the Museum of Photographic Arts… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story at the Dive-In Theater and Pool Party by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA August 14, 2015 Our short film, Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story, will be screening at the Dive In Theater and Pool Party tomorrow evening at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego. If you’re in town and want to have a good… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars: Episode V – The Toy Story Strikes Back by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA May 4, 2015 The STAR WARS TOY STORY SAGA continues with Star Wars: Episode V – The Toy Story Strikes Back. COMING SOON!!! We will produce this short for the 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards. It will… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, Trailer, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Nominated for Best Visual Effects by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA May 4, 2015 Thanks to everyone who voted for our fan film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story. We didn’t win the Audience Choice Award, but we were nominated for Best Visual Effects at the Star… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Meet the Crew of Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA March 5, 2015 For our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story, we enlisted the help of Carlos Grijalva and Robbie Tharp of Grijalva Films for our location shoot at San Diego’s historic Balboa Park. These guys are awesome! … read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Meet the Cast of Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA March 2, 2015 Meet the talented cast of our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story, which will be released on March 9, 2015. We created this 5-minute short for the 2015 Star Wars Fan Film Awards. Like our Facebook movie… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Coming Soon . . . March 9, 2015 by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA February 26, 2015 Check out this Facebook post from the San Diego Film Consortium about our short film for the Star Wars Fan Film Awards. Coming March 9, 2015 Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars Posters by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA February 26, 2015 I recently framed these beautiful Star Wars posters by Drew Struzan to use in a short film we’ll be releasing on March 9, 2015. I bought them when the Star Wars Special Edition films were released theatrically in 1997, and they were just… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Drew Struzan, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Homage to Drew Struzan by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA July 27, 2014 Comic-Con is coming to an end today, and I wanted to show my geek pride by sharing this movie poster concept I made in 2001 for my favorite Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back. I created this in… read more Tags: Drew Struzan, Fan-made, Graphic Design, Illustration, Poster, Star Wars Posted in Graphic Design, Illustration, Poster Design | No Comments »