Mechanism Digital

05/19/2022

Virtual Teams will be social if you let them
https://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/6932404392079867904/

04/18/2022

VFX Eye for the Budget Guy

A visual effects supervisor is like post insurance for your shoot..

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vfx-eye-budget-guy-lucien-harriot

Sometimes my work takes me to interesting places, like movie sets. I work on set as a consultant, specifically a “VFX supervisor.

03/31/2022

Saving Money at Any Cost

Proper post-production pipeline practices produce fewer perilous pitfalls.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving-money-any-cost-lucien-harriot

New York has a soft spot for independent films, and Mechanism Digital is proud to have worked on so many of them. First, some disambiguation: “Independent” does not always mean “low-budget.

03/10/2022

Guild rules, status, and careers all come into play behind the scenes of every opening credit sequence.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/credit-where-due-lucien-harriot

02/24/2022

Credit Check

Opening credits are an opportunity for directors to set the mood for the whole film.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/credit-check-lucien-harriot

Opening credits are a big deal in Hollywood. As creatives, we see credits as a means to set a mood for the story with the choice of fonts, as well as the placement and composition of some transitions.

01/26/2022

Voiceover production considers everything — from tone to timber.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-reason-lucien-harriot/

01/20/2022

The Voice of Experience

VO recording sessions are easy once the right pieces are in place.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-experience-lucien-harriot

At Mechanism Digital, we do a lot of voiceovers for corporate communications videos. These could be explainers, medical videos, promotions for conferences, or corporate-sponsored research.

01/11/2022

‘Catch the Fair One’ Trailer: Darren Aronofsky Executive-Produces This Intense Sex-Trafficking Thriller

We are proud to have been a part of "Catch the fair One".

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/catch-the-fair-one-trailer-1234689614/

Exclusive: Boxer Kali Reis delivers a bruising, Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance in the film, out next month.

01/10/2022

Inside ‘The Matrix Awakens’: Epic Games Releases a Massive, Playable Free Demo to Showcase Unreal Engine 5

Unreal Engine used for Matrix Demo.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/matrix-awakens-epic-games-unreal-engine-5-demo-1235129348/

Is it real — or is it Unreal? Epic Games worked with Warner Bros., “The Matrix Resurrections” director Lana Wachowski to create a “technical demo” set in the world of …

12/29/2021

♪ Movie in the Sky with Clients ♫

Cloud-Based Visual Effects and Animation Production

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/movie-sky-clients-lucien-harriot

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was in the news recently with an outage that affected Disney+ and Netflix. Mechanism Digital uses AWS, but our studio was not affected by the outage.

11/29/2021

A five-minute conversation can save five thousand dollars. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-shoot-ask-questions-later-lucien-harriot/?published=t

11/23/2021

Lucien Harriot on LinkedIn: Trust the Process

Making tough decisions about your animation is easier when you’ve got a proven process to follow.

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Making tough decisions about your animation is easier when you’ve got a proven process to follow....

11/23/2021

‘Black And Missing’: New HBO Docuseries To Focus On Black Missing Persons Cases

https://deadline.com/2021/10/black-and-missing-hbo-docuseries-black-missing-persons-cases-1234863024/

EXCLUSIVE: HBO announced the upcoming documentary Black And Missing from Emmy Award winners Geeta Gandbhir and Soledad O’Brien that will focus on Black missing persons cases. Black And Missin…

11/10/2021

Footnotes and Fair Balance

There’s a reason why ads for new drugs spend so much time on the side effects.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/footnotes-fair-balance-lucien-harriot

In my last piece, I wrote about how the complexity of the body can be explained with animations — but that wasn’t the whole story. Within the medical animation space there are rules and regulations that govern much of the content, including those notoriously awkward lists of side effects in drug...

10/28/2021

From Hollywood to Healthcare

Narrative Storytelling - From Hollywood to Healthcare
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-hollywood-healthcare-lucien-harriot/

Working with movie studios for 25 years has taught us how to hone our narrative storytelling skills in order to boil a story down to its elements. This allows us to advance a plot in a 30-second timeframe, as is commonly seen in television commercials.

10/27/2021

Educating for Disease Awareness using Animation

In corporate communications, complex biological processes can be represented in clear animations that bear little resemblance to the actual physiology inside all of us. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/educating-disease-awareness-using-animation-lucien-harriot

If you stuck a camera inside the human body, you wouldn’t see much more than tissue pressed up against the lens, AKA “the meat wall,” looking a bit gross. That’s why the medical community understands that sometimes clarity needs to take precedence over medical accuracy in corporate and consu...

10/18/2021

‘SportsCenter’ promotes Mets doc with Lenny Dykstra dropping so many F-bombs

https://nypost.com/2021/09/16/espn-promotes-mets-doc-with-lenny-dykstra-cursing-video/

“SportsCenter” aired a clip from the documentary Wednesday which featured 20 seconds of former Mets center fielder Lenny Dykstra spewing F-bombs.

09/15/2021

VR: Venue Versatility

Digital booths find new life online with closure of medical congresses.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vr-venue-versatility-lucien-harriot

For the duration of the pandemic, healthcare congresses — normally hosting 50,000 attendees each — were shuttered. Doctors could not attend educational panels in person, resulting in the familiar trajectory of having all meetings over Zoom.

08/26/2021

Reminiscence – Now Playing In Theaters & HBO Max

https://www.bannisterandassociates.com/ AI can add you into a movie trailer.

Reminiscence – Now Playing In Theaters & HBO Max

08/24/2021

When NOT to use Green Screen

Background screens come in many colors — are you sure green is the right one for you?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-use-green-screen-lucien-harriot/

One sight that’s ubiquitous in behind-the-scenes footage from movie sets is the green screen. Green screens are a way to insert backgrounds into a scene while avoiding the time-consuming and expensive process of rotoscoping (painting digitally frame by frame) around people.

08/20/2021

Reminiscence – In Theaters & HBO Max August 20

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Reminiscence – In Theaters & HBO Max August 20

08/11/2021

Lucien Harriot on LinkedIn: The Wisdom of a 25-Year-Old

Lessons learned in 25 years.

Lessons learned in 25 years....

08/05/2021

Facebook's Ray-Ban 'smart glasses' will be its next big product

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-zuckerberg-ray-ban-smart-glasses-coming-soon-2021?ck_subscriber_id=958955353&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Delta+Dilemma%20-%206310211

During Facebook's second quarter 2021 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed its Ray-Ban smart glasses will be coming sometime this year.

07/30/2021

Cure for the Common Conference

Cure for the Common Conference

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cure-common-conference-mechanism-digital/

Marketing agencies that pivoted during the pandemic have embraced solutions that are likely to outlast the public health emergency. In innovating for the pandemic, pharmaceutical marketing agencies have found solutions that are likely to outlast the public health emergency.

07/23/2021

How To Implement VR Headsets Into Your Business in 2021 - XR Today

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/how-to-implement-vr-headsets-into-your-business-in-2021/

XR Today reports on the latest Extended Reality news from around the globe. Including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. XR News

07/15/2021

In an industry of acronyms, medical animations must follow the letter of the law. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culturally-competent-lucien-harriot/

07/12/2021

Adobe Announces Advanced VR Modelling Software - XR Today

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/adobe-announces-advanced-vr-modelling-software/?utm_campaign=weekly-newsletter&utm_medium=XRTEmail&utm_source=AC

XR Today reports on the latest Extended Reality news from around the globe. Including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. XR News

06/25/2021

The 2021 Audience Award Winners Are… | Tribeca

We are thrilled to announce that CATCH THE FAIR ONE won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at this year's Tribeca Film Festival!
https://tribecafilm.com/news/the-2021-audience-award-winners-are

Audience Award winners for the 20th-anniversary festival also include online premieres that were a part of Tribeca At Home, Tribeca’s virtual festival.

06/17/2021

Werewolves Within | 2021 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca

Werewolves Within Premieres Tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival!
Check it out.
https://tribecafilm.com/films/werewolves-within-2021

In Josh Ruben’s video game-inspired horror-comedy, a newly assigned forest ranger checks into a quaint Vermont inn just as a snowstorm cuts him and the eccentric townsfolk off from civilization. Yet frigid weather isn’t their biggest concern—that’d be the bloodthirsty creature picking them o...

06/16/2021

watch.tribecafilm.com

Check it out before the 23rd.
Catch the Fair One.
https://watch.tribecafilm.com/landing/839002434

On-Demand Viewing Portal

06/10/2021

Teasing a Great Performance Out of Texting

Producers and directors used to run from portraying text messages in films — until they got the message that there is no place to hide. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teasing-great-performance-out-texting-lucien-harriot/?trackingId=v6JhAc5jT3a6vMBywDncFA%3D%3D

Over the last 15 years, the use of texting and social media as essential plot elements in films has grown exponentially. At first, filmmakers were hesitant and pushed back.

06/08/2021

Tribeca Film Festival Double Feature

We’re thrilled to see two of our films at Tribeca this year, and look forward to seeing you there in person. #tribeca2021 #tribecafilmfestival

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tribeca-film-festival-double-feature-lucien-harriot/

Congratulations to all cast and crew with films premiering in the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Mechanism Digital is very proud to have two features in this year’s festival, Catch the Fair One and Werewolves Within, in which our NYC studio supervised on-set VFX, designed, and executed the Visual Eff...

06/03/2021

Manhattan Film Festival | Screenings |Prologue

Proud to have worked on this great short film. Check out the screening.

Prologue is a short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband wants. With the unexpect...

https://www.manhattanff.com/view-screening/1426

Prologue is a short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband wants.

05/26/2021

Adobe MAX 2019: Adobe Aero | Adobe Creative Cloud

Nice visualization of augmented reality glasses: https://youtu.be/IutVq6cPBX0?t=120

Learn more about Substance: https://adobe.ly/2NiKwqPScott Belsky invites us to ponder what life could look like in the world of AR and welcomes Chantel Benso...