YouTuber Offered $30M Contract with Sam Raimi

wow, this guy is good!!

I skipped through this because it looked odd a week or 2 ago...
On second thought, I am glad somebody with skills got this contract.
At first glance I was worried one of those YouTube idiots like sxephil or whatever was getting money for being a d-bag.. thank god

I skipped through this because it looked odd a week or 2 ago...
On second thought, I am glad somebody with skills got this contract.
At first glance I was worried one of those YouTube idiots like sxephil or whatever was getting money for being a d-bag.. thank god

300 buck? I guess he got all the cars and planes for free!

It's so refreshing to see an average individuals, who also happens to be talented, is getting such an opportunity! I wish him all the best and hopefully he'll go far.

kinda reminds me of supreme commander

very good especially if he is just an amateur

It would be nice if he had an original idea and have not just copied Transformers and Independence Day.

fantastic compositing! So much with CGI is getting the lighting right and this guy nailed it. Hope he does something really amazing. I mean there isn't much to this, but it has great direction and editing.

Awesome!! Go Latin American sci-fi!!!
If he can do this with 300 bucks, I wish him well with $30M. I'd give his movie a watch, even with subtitles.

nicely done. with more time and more money the small things 3d renders notice oculd easily be taken care of

Wow. How did he do all of that for $300? That guy has talent.

Movies with million dollar budget manage to a lot worse then what this guy has done. Not that his creation was bad to begin with....

That was jaw dropping for 300 bucks, I'm glad to share the same last name as this man , shows you what us Hispanics can do with almost nothing

what software did he use?

This looks about 1000 times better than Cloverleaf which people seemed to love for some reason. Cloverleaf looked like it was filmed for $300 and this looked like it had Cloverleaf's budget. I want this dude making THIS MOVIE now. No need to create a new story, this one looks AWESOME. I want to see THIS MOVIE.

Oh, and a bit off topic, but isn't it refreshing to see aliens using real-world technology for weapons? There ain't nothing wrong with mass and explosions for killing people and blowing things up. Why does every sci-fi movie have to have the bad guys shooting green shit (just quoting Will Smith) at our pilots?

If he did it himself... for 300 bucks... Probably Blender.

Really? You believe he did all that for the cost of an IPhone? Gullible people. If he did, he could of made Transformers for $7200..120min/5 *300.. My God he could make 10k movies for the cost of one Avatar. 300 bucks couldn't cover Megan Foxes wardrobe! But then maybe that is why he got the contract. If he could do things like that at a fractional of the cost of Hollywood, the guy would be golden! So no matter what it cost it still is great for an amatuer.

$300, and what must have been ages in front of a computer making the CG visuals in his own free time. No way does the 300 include the effects budget unless he did all the CG himself or had free help. You have actors, cameras, etc. Someone had to be working for free at some point.

Every time they say "made the movie for under $1k" you basically have to assume they aren't including any money for the guy's time and the software programs needed to make the fx. Obviously, if he was being paid to make this, rather than doing it on his own, it would have cost quite a bit more.

It seems like the robots were wasting their time. Why blow up individual buildings when you are going to blow up the whole city in one bast anyways?

I have to agree, a hobbyist didn't make this film. It tooks weeks to render it, much less design it. Good work to the guy, but don't say it only cost 300$ to make...

Well whatever the real cost or time spent, I see a future for this fellow. Bring on the movie in 2010 or 2011...

its hard to understand why most of u ppl think it cost more than $300. It was less than 5minutes, he had very few ppl acting in it, he obviously used a consumer level hdcam and im assuming final cut, probably not avid media composer (hollywood standard non linear editing suite). the cgi took a huge amount of time, but didn't interrupt the editing process, assuming that he had a rough cut done and exported the QT and imported it into motion or after effects for the cgi.

he probably did the filming, editing, and cgi himself. so all in all, he only spent that $300 probably on the hd tape, and getting permits to film in his city, and probably some food for the actors rather than a paycheck.


just coming from someone who is in the film industry

WOW!!! I would actually pay to go see a feature film like this instead of getting it off bit torrent.

Cool!

Actually you are citing the difference between cost accounting and managerial accounting. Whether it's by accrual or cash basis, cost accounting is only concerned with dollars spent. Managerial accounting deals with things such as opportunity costs. I doubt seriously that there's a large enough section of the THG readership that gives a rats @$$ about managerial accounting that's trying to rationalize how much this guy should have been credited for spending based upon his potential earnings based upon the contract he just got from Sam Raimi.

And BTW, if you really want to start splitting hairs, you can add time into the equation and force the opportunity costs to be depreciated over a set number of years as the creation of the video is an actual property of the creator and may be depreciated over the time of the copyright period for the piece which could easily make the current costs of the video to be less than $300 even when including opportunity costs.

Indeed, however (opportunity costs aside), one must consider his electrical expenditures from charging the video camera battery, the energy used to power the machine with which he performed his editing (unless of course these were done using public power, which I'm guessing at least the editing was definitely not).
If we want to be totally inclusive, we need to consider a portion of the cost of the camera, the computer, etc. that were used.
Though you are probably right about not many people caring...

Having a actor friend I've head many stories of working for pizza so she can fill up the resume. So many of the actors probably where friends or from acting school looking to get some experience.
I agree with filmman03, he probably spent the money on food, permits and tapes for his HDCAM.