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Yesterday we worked the whole day on one big stunt – something that takes only seconds on screen, but involves so many elements that preparing everything, rehearsing and timing them to happen exactly at the… Read more

Digital actors? Even crazier VFX? Higher resolution? Virtual reality? Pffht… The future of filmmaking is in capturing as much of the material you can at one take! Visual effects have made it easy to paint… Read more

…lovely wife, whom I greatly respect, love and regard highly among the living, ain’t one! This has been now my 99th day in China, the longest time I’ve been away from Finland, so these kind… Read more

For our turnaround day, we decided to visit South Korea with Mika. Seoul is just across the water, only one hour flight away, so we thought it would make sense to pop by check out… Read more

Kids, don’t eat your fingernails. If you happen to scrape the skin underneath, it becomes exposed to all the grime and dirt the world holds, and may get infected. Then, the skin heals but the… Read more

Last night went on until 8 am, and the pickup to the last shooting day in Rizhao location would be at 13:00; I got barely 5 hours of sleep and felt like a truck had… Read more

Night shifts are starting to take the toll on me. We are doing long days and long nights and I can barely walk after a shooting day and since you have to keep the head… Read more

One can’t avoid arguments when working on a high-speed production with hundreds of people running around on tight schedules. I’m not the most aggressive person in seeking the arguments, but I’m not avoiding them either.… Read more

Our production designer has yet again outdone himself. Sometime during the last week he had turned the empty lot at Rizhao into a fully believable front yard of a military base, with a big wall… Read more

As one might suspect, morning was not the most amazing for me. I had to get up and start packing early – my stuff was all over the apartment, so it took me a good… Read more