Tyler Gibb – Writer, Director, Editor, Filmmaker

When I made my announcement videos last month a more shocking revelation to some than the fact that the Minushi DVD was finally released was perhaps the mop on top of my head.

Well maybe not shocking – let’s say perceivably different from my earlier video appearances. At any rate I wouldn’t bring it up unless it had a direct relation to making moving pictures, and it does:

When you’re trying to make a go of independent entertainment (whether its film, music, etc) your biggest obstacle is going to be finances so you cut costs wherever you can. Hair is a cost… So I’ve been it – myself for the past ten years actually. Anyway, shaving it clean off was simply the fastest method of getting things done in the past so that I could get back to the business at hand… However! These days I find myself stepping into the live-action arena – on both sides of the camera – which leads to the mop top:

In a second.

Yeah, live-action. Don’t get me wrong, I love animation, but four-years to make nine-minutes of footage? Alone? Hey, I’m not getting any younger, kids. So yeah, I’m still thinking animation but I’m also entering a new realm. I’ve written six feature screenplays in the past year – many more shorts as well and its time for action.

Pun!

So I’m going to be launching into production this year (in fact I’ve already begun) and as always, I want to take you all along for the ride. The first step will be to get some short movies under my belt – I call this step the learning curve. Put myself in as many production situations as I can and just see what happens. Call it a video sketchbook. Which brings us back to the hair:

As I did with Minushi, I will likely find myself performing in many of these short movies and since I don’t have an animated facade to hide behind this time around, I need to prepare myself. Whereas with a blank sheet of paper you add, with the hirsute male you subtract. I think that to the filmmaker on a budget hair can be great source of characterization and as an actor you need enough of it to be able to shape into whatever the role calls for. And as it’s faster to cut off into the look you want than it is to grow it into place, I’ve become shaggy in wait for whatever role I take on next.

Cut!

So, in case you’ve been losing sleep over just how deadly my karate chopping fists of fury really are you can rest assured that there was more to the “Chop” demonstation than met the eye. Either that or I’ve developed a cloning machine which is a much more frightening idea.

No… No, it’s just Final Cut Express and Photoshop, sadly. Visual effects are basically just like animation.

Think of what I could get done with a team of clones… Sigh.

Spent the weekend shooting a new short with cohort Marc Schultz – if it turns out, maybe it’ll make it to a YouTube near you.

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The past couple weeks have been about familiarizing myself with some new equipment and the video above is small a side-effect of that process.There will be more demos/experiments like it to come as well as some more well balanced short films once I get used to things – because godknows the scripts are there!And before you email me and ask: No, it’s not a fake log. No, it’s not a pre-cut log. Yes, I am deadly, but that’s really got nothing to do with it but by all means keep guessing.T

Hey web denizens, Boneheads and Minushians in case there wasn’t enough useless ego-mongering on the web already I’ve finally added my namesake to the fray.

Here at the sexily named TylerGibb.com you’ll get the low-down and up-to-date news on all things… Well, me. Fans of Minushi, don’t you fret, things are still moving along and you’ll get all the latest right here. Fans of Boneland, you probably can’t even read this because if my web traffic stats have anything to say about it you’re mostly Turkish or Brazillian at this point… But hey! I love you all the same.

What I really want to use this handy little acre of webspace for is simply to keep you all informed and to help you get in touch with or stay in touch with me.

On my side of the web I am currently gearing up to shoot a new feature – live-action this time but no less intrinsically linked to the web in production and in content actually. I’m going to keep you all informed of my progress via this site and hope that this time things will roll out a bit quicker than last time.

That’s it for now. Stay in touch.