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Ghoulish Season's Greetings from Rogues Hollow

Even though I'm not exactly a "Christmas Fan" I do enjoy this time of year. Whenever possible however, I do like to spook it up! I've been doing x-mas related emails each year and just finished up my most recent. If it looks familiar its because I meant it to be an homage to the poster for Halloween 4. I even came up with a cool tagline. Its a movie poster without a movie! You can click on the image for a larger version. Sorry I had to watermark the image. I have had problems with no-good-niks taking my Santa Zombie email image last year and I want to try to avoid the issue this time. If you interested in purchasing this image, licensing it, or buying a poster let me know by contacting me.

Happy Holidays everyone!

My Take on Jason's Hockey Mask

Ok so I've been working on a few projects that I've had on the back burner for quite some time. Way back about 8 years ago I pumped out a few Jason hockey masks from a mold I had made. My plan was always to create a whole set to adorn my walls, one mask from each movie. But I never completed that task and the masks have been on a shelf collecting dust since. Then last week I got the hankerin' to get back on the project. I now have about 6 masks on my walls that I've completed in the last week. I had one mask that was a bad pull and had a lot of air in it. So I decided to make my own interpretation of a jason mask which is what you see to the left. I decided to go with blue markings and a lot of battle damage. Certainly something different but not too out of the familiar. Let me know what you think in the comments section.

2009 Halloween Yard Display Video

I know its December 1st but what better way to bring in the X-mas season than with a video from my Halloween Yard Display? I've compiled a short youtube movie with clips shot on Halloween night in my yard. I was pretty bad at using a steadicam when these were done so I apologize in advance for the shakiness of some of the shots. It was a learning experience:) This was the first yard display I had done in 2 years and I think it was probably the best we've done so far. However I already plan on many improvements.

I hope you enjoy the video to the tune of Halloween 3 music and feel free to leave comments.

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Video Shoots!

Recently I upgraded my camera to a full frame Canon that takes photos as well as 1080p Video. To boot I also picked up a Merlin Steadicam which is a balanced gimbal based camera steadying unit that gives you that "flying camera" look you see in Hollywood films. The result has been that I've been shooting smooth high def video that has blown me away. The Merlin Steadicam was invented by Garrett Brown who also invented the Steadycam that is used in films still today. Mr. Brown was the man that filmed all the steadycam shots in Kubrick's The Shining!

2 weeks ago I shot some Video for Beyond the Grave Productions, which I'll be putting online very soon. Then last weekend I shot video for ScreamWorld in Houston Texas. I can't wait till I can show it to everyone! In the meantime check out this quick shot taken in a field of the new Beyond the Grave Costumes below. This costume is called Unearthed and will be available at Beyond the Grave Productions soon!

Zombie Test Footage from Christopher Brielmaier on Vimeo.

Happy Halloween!

For awhile there I thought maybe Halloween would never get here, now that it has it seems like it went by way too fast! Thursday night my town had its annual Trick 'r Treat night and we decked the house out for the event like never before! It was definetly my best yard display thus far. I'm still learning about the best lighting techniques for my yard. Its been a little troublesome due to the fact our house sits high on a hill right in front of a street light which sends a lot of sodium light into our yard. I tried counteracting it with lots of blues this year and It turned out great! But I'm already thinking about next year.

Considering that I've spent the last week fighting a flu like illness and decorated the yard usually with a massive headache and a temperature, I still feel like it came out better than I hoped! I didn't get to do the fog or my hallowindow display this year but it still was a lot of fun! The kids loved it, the parents loved it and my wife and I had a lot of fun and that's what matters. You can check out all the photos here.

I shot some video that I'll try to edit in the next week or so to add to the site as well. I'll also be adding some cool wallpapers to my downloads section this week.

Its been a big busy year for Rogues Hollow and I'm already lining up new work so I feel very fortunate and even though it felt overwhelming at times I still had fun! Thanks to all my clients who made this a great season!

I updated my portfolio earlier in the week, it was a MASSIVE update with over 25 new site links that we've worked on! Lots of cool stuff to see.

If you've emailed me this week I'll be getting back to you Monday or Tuesday. I'm still getting over this flu but starting to feel much better. Thanks for your patience.

Oh, and one last thing, I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!!