{"id":11,"date":"2018-04-16T02:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-06-05T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T02:50:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jeff-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jeff-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jeff-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jeff-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sundriftproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jeff.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My name is Jeff Boller, and this blog is about my adventures in animated computer graphics filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was a kid, I&#8217;ve had three primary interests in life: film, music, and computers. While growing up, these three interests were like volume faders on an audio mixing console; I was always doing something that involved one or more of these things, although sometimes one interest would temporarily become much more prominent than the other two. As an adult, I took turns working in each of these fields professionally while still pursuing the other two interests whenever I could.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous life &#8212; and by &#8220;previous life&#8221; I mean me up until early 2017 &#8212; I was a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who released three albums and two EPs under the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplecarnival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Simple Carnival<\/a>. The Simple Carnival was not so much a &#8220;band&#8221; as it was a studio project where I played and sang most &#8212; or all &#8212; of the parts.<\/p>\n<p>When I was working on The Simple Carnival&#8217;s final album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplecarnival.com\/site\/listen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smitten<\/a>, I got heavily into creating animated music videos in 3D.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x7y40i2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x7y40i4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through making animated music videos, I discovered the pleasure of daydreaming something, working really hard for a year (or more) to turn that daydream into a short film, sharing that film with an audience, and &#8212; to paraphrase Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie &#8212; making lots of people happy. I love being able to transport people with film, just like so many filmmakers have done with me when I&#8217;m in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Pittsburgh, PA, which is a terrific city for computers. However, when it comes to CG animation, there&#8217;s just not the sheer number of people doing this sort of thing here as there are in, say, Los Angeles or Toronto. So while filmmaking is supposed to be a collaborative process, for the time being it&#8217;s a lot like the music recordings I did &#8212; I&#8217;m playing pretty much all of the parts out of necessity. And that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll be seeing on this blog &#8212; me attempting to play all the parts in a CG filmmaking pipeline, and sharing what I learn along the way.<\/p>\n<p>If you like reading about what goes into creating CG films on a shoestring budget, or if you simply want to gawk at someone attempting to juggle a hundred things at once, I hope you&#8217;ll find the content here entertaining and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>You can reach me via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeff-boller-593884a4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> or e-mail me at jeff [at] sundriftproductions.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jeff Boller, and this blog is about my adventures in animated computer graphics filmmaking. Since I was a kid, I&#8217;ve had three primary interests in life: film, music, and computers. 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