I had the privilege of being involved with helping Young Lee, a friend of mine, shoot a 3-D film in New York City.  Young is a visual effects animator and an actor, and he assembled his own home-made High-Definition 3-D camera.  Watching the tech unfold is a story in and of itself.  I was never really a huge fan of 3-D on my own, but it is mesmerizing to actually work with it and see it come to life.  You can watch the film on Youtube, here: Samurai Rumble 3-D! Red/Cyan 3-D glasses required.  You can find them on Amazon.com for pretty cheap if you’re interested.

I have a small cameo in the film as a knight.  The day we shot was very busy, as you can imagine, so we had very little time for photos, but I loved the setting and did the best I could with our limited time.  We had just about ten minutes before the sun dipped over the horizon to shoot portraits.

The other samurai in the film and in the photos is Eisuke Nakajima.  Eisuke is a kendo swordmaster, a trained samurai and a highly trained stage combatant.  He taught me more about stage fighting for the short scene I was in than I had than I’d ever encountered.  If you watch the way he moves in the film, it’s a beautiful thing – especially when you see how light on his feet he really is.  He was involved in every aspect of the film, especially a short like this that involves so much choreography.

Since this is a new blog for me, I will eventually put up some posts from my shoot with Young Lee last summer.