Dwight's fun with movie making started with super 8 stuff back in the early 70's. He started out just making a lot of typical goofy stuff with his friends. When Dwigfht and my folks lived in Chritiansburg, I visited once a year. Dwight was always in a mood to CREATE! We did some a lot of experimenting with claymation and time lapse movies. I'll pout some up on the web soon. Fortunately he also recored MANY of his rocket launches nad trips to Cape Canaveral. After I left Dwight took off on super 8 movie making. He started doing his rocket launch animations with hand crafted astronauts. He was ready to start making full lenght features. Somewhere in the 80's Dwight decided to get an associates degree in commercial art. At school he started using computers to do art. As we moved into the 90's and computers bacame apart of our lives, Dwight discovered a program called ASTOUND, that allows you to create animation. Dwight could spend hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours hours in front of a comupter screen creating and editing frame by frame by frame by frame at the minute pixel level. He created LIFE ON THE FARM and TO THE WALL with ASTOUND. Dwight was so passionate about his labors of love. He just couldn't understand why all of the rest of us weren't doing the same thing! What wimps we all were! Starting around 1995 Dwight established his studio in Middleburg and threw himself into the creation of Mars1, collaberating with Rick Thomas and Michael Sullivan. They all spent hours and hours and hours and hours on the phone discussing the script and actually recording the voice tracks. I estimate that Dwight spent 20 hours per week, 52 weeks for 4 years creating the hour long Mars1...that's 4160 hours!!! ( it was probably double that ) When Mars1 was done, I could only sit in envy at the description of the first screening and celbration that Dwght and Rick and Sully had! MARS1 was released on VHS. After Mars1 Dwight took a break.....for a couple of months..... He alway loved the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Many of the ideas and dialogs in the movie mirrored Dwight's views of how it was SO URGENT that we earthlings rediect our warlike tendancies to being more responsible shephers of this fragile planet. So, Dwight embarked on another 4 year oddessy to produce THE HOUR NO ONE WENT, merging his own, Ricks, Sully's and my (yes I finally got a part) images into the original movie film, frame by frame by frame by frame by frame by frame. THE HOUR was released on DVD in 2004. Chalk up another 4-6 thousand hours. It will take me a couple of months to try to get MARS1 on DVD.
Update....after sorting through about 200 CDs, 20 VHS, and 400 audio tapes.... Dwight DID put Mars1 on DVD. I watched "Life on the Farm" for the first time in 10 years or so. I've got lot's of VHS stuff to read in and put on DVD. I'll be listening to audio cassttes and reading some into the computer....it's going to be a great year to savor everything. I'll share as much as possible with as many as possible.
Hi Everyone, I am in the process of posting Dwight's videos and Movies on YouTube. There are several of them up already. This is a wonderful medium available that allows me to fulfill my promise to preserve and promote his data. Simply go to youtube.com and search for keywords Dwight Strickland. To get you started, copy and paste this link ...
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Dwight's fun with movie making started with super 8 stuff back in the early 70's. He started out just making a lot of typical goofy stuff with his friends. When Dwigfht and my folks lived in Chritiansburg, I visited once a year. Dwight was always in a mood to CREATE! We did some a lot of experimenting with claymation and time lapse movies. I'll pout some up on the web soon. Fortunately he also recored MANY of his rocket launches nad trips to Cape Canaveral. After I left Dwight took off on super 8 movie making. He started doing his rocket launch animations with hand crafted astronauts. He was ready to start making full lenght features. Somewhere in the 80's Dwight decided to get an associates degree in commercial art. At school he started using computers to do art. As we moved into the 90's and computers bacame apart of our lives, Dwight discovered a program called ASTOUND, that allows you to create animation. Dwight could spend hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours hours in front of a comupter screen creating and editing frame by frame by frame by frame at the minute pixel level. He created LIFE ON THE FARM and TO THE WALL with ASTOUND. Dwight was so passionate about his labors of love. He just couldn't understand why all of the rest of us weren't doing the same thing! What wimps we all were! Starting around 1995 Dwight established his studio in Middleburg and threw himself into the creation of Mars1, collaberating with Rick Thomas and Michael Sullivan. They all spent hours and hours and hours and hours on the phone discussing the script and actually recording the voice tracks. I estimate that Dwight spent 20 hours per week, 52 weeks for 4 years creating the hour long Mars1...that's 4160 hours!!! ( it was probably double that ) When Mars1 was done, I could only sit in envy at the description of the first screening and celbration that Dwght and Rick and Sully had! MARS1 was released on VHS. After Mars1 Dwight took a break.....for a couple of months..... He alway loved the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Many of the ideas and dialogs in the movie mirrored Dwight's views of how it was SO URGENT that we earthlings rediect our warlike tendancies to being more responsible shephers of this fragile planet. So, Dwight embarked on another 4 year oddessy to produce THE HOUR NO ONE WENT, merging his own, Ricks, Sully's and my (yes I finally got a part) images into the original movie film, frame by frame by frame by frame by frame by frame. THE HOUR was released on DVD in 2004. Chalk up another 4-6 thousand hours. It will take me a couple of months to try to get MARS1 on DVD.
Update....after sorting through about 200 CDs, 20 VHS, and 400 audio tapes.... Dwight DID put Mars1 on DVD. I watched "Life on the Farm" for the first time in 10 years or so. I've got lot's of VHS stuff to read in and put on DVD. I'll be listening to audio cassttes and reading some into the computer....it's going to be a great year to savor everything. I'll share as much as possible with as many as possible.
Hi Everyone,
I am in the process of posting Dwight's videos and Movies on YouTube.
There are several of them up already.
This is a wonderful medium available that allows me to fulfill my promise to preserve and promote his data.
Simply go to youtube.com and search for keywords Dwight Strickland.
To get you started, copy and paste this link ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROW42l9mbcs
Thank you ...
Happy Birthday Dwight!!! :)
Rick
Dwight's Videos are on YouTube and have been for the last 60 days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gagl2vIIxW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gagl2vIIxW0
Cut and paste into Google or YouTube
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