Happy Birthday, Mickey! James was the Director of Photography and VFX artist for this video starring Mickey Mouse! It promotes a really cool interactive jumbo-tron in Times Square. Be sure to watch to the end for an explosive finale in the Magic Kingdom! James shot on the new RED Epic camera, and used interactive magic lighting both in Times Square and Disney World. Directed by Matt Wyatt. Additional VFX by David Wolgemuth and Whitfield Henry. Thanks to everyone at DigiSynd and Disney Parks!

Featured on Examiner and Mashable! Behind-the-scenes photos coming soon!

This is the last video Dave directed for Disney, which promotes the new Winnie The Pooh movie! Dave, along with fellow DigiSynd employees, made a bunch of watercolor paintings, which were scanned into the computer. Dave arranged them in 3D space, choreographed the text and animated the camera movement. It gets pretty zany at the end, so enjoy!

See Dave’s first Pooh Watercolor video!

Dave finished working on some of the Visual Effects for the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise! Thanks to everyone at Bad Robot for an amazing experience. See it in IMAX on December 21, 2011.

Oh, and check this out.

Dave directed this video for the new Winnie The Pooh movie. Dave and James animated dialogue from the classic 1977 Disney film The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh. Dave painted using real watercolors, scanned them into the computer, positioned the text, and animated 3D camera movement. Enjoy!

Because of its popularity, Dave got to make a second Pooh Watercolor video!

James was the Director of Photography for the latest comedic short from Team Tiger Awesome. Ghostlight provided gun and gore Visual Effects. Guest Directed by Matt Wyatt. Enjoy this cautionary tale that explores the horrors of awkward and disgusting R-Rated deathbed requests.

Behind-the-Scenes photos coming soon!

Yeehaw! Scott Gairdner asked Ghostlight for some help on his latest Funny Or Die video “Roller Coaster Saftety with Patrick Warburton.” James was the Director of Photography, so insert cowboy shootin’ pun here. Though Scott did all the ride graphics, Ghostlight provided invisible Visual Effects including monitor placement, dolly rig removal, boom mic removal, and crew reflection removal. Saddle up and enjoy!

Featured on Huffington Post! Behind-the-scenes Photos and VFX video coming soon!

This is our favorite video that we’ve done with Disney! James was the Director of Photography and Editor. Dave was the VFX Supervisor. Directed by Matt Wyatt. Brad Conlin was the AC. Music by Alfred Montejano. Thanks to the entire Disneyland crew, Lucasfilm, and our DigiSynd coworkers. You’re the best!

Darth Vader’s Tweet. Examiner. The Daily What. Mashable.

Here’s how we put new people into the old show! Thanks to Summer Of Tears, Chris Cantwell, and the entire crew!

Watch “American Gladiators”! Watch Behind-The-Scenes! See on-set Photos!

We did the Cinematography and film look for Adventures of the Blue Sword, which Chris Cantwell directed for the Channel 101 show Everything. James shot on the RED Camera and approximated the look of 1949 Technicolor film. We also added grain, dust, scratches, weave, tape splices, and thumbprints. Thanks to everybody involved!

Watch on Vimeo or YouTube. Watch behind-the-scenes! Photos!

Something’s wrong with us. Ghostlight did the Cinematography and Visual Effects for this disturbing short by Invisible Engine. Chris’ character shoots himself in one of those old theme park music video booths. First, the blood effects were added using Visual Effects. Then the green was replaced (poorly) by footage we shot on our iPhones. Then we ran it through a VHS deck while messing with the tracking. Alfred Montejano created the VHS audio flaws. Starring Chris Cantwell, Matt Wyatt, Sean Bury, and Hesley Harps.

Here’s how we put Guy From Nickelback in the sky using Visual Effects. Special guest commentary by the film’s director Scott Gairdner.

Watch Guy From Nickelback: Private Eye Returns first!

We did the Cinematography and Visual Effects for this Captain Morgan ad produced by FunnyorDie.com and directed by Scott Gairdner. James shot on the RED camera with upgraded M-X chip. Our VFX work included wire and stunt rigging removal, sparks, flames, brand removal, time machine effects, fireworks, and 3D smoke simulation. Special thanks to Scott and the incredible crew at Funny or Die!

Behind-the-scenes Photos!

How we used Visual Effects to enhance the practical makeup effects and props.

More from our Footloose Scenes! Watch the fully assembled Our Footloose Remake!

Ghostlight did the Visual Effects for this special Macy Gray music video for the South Africa World Cup 2010. It features photographer Giuliano Bekor, BEBE, LA Models, and of course Macy Gray. Thanks to everyone involved! Can you spot the VFX shots?

Director Joey Boukadakis appointed Ghostlight to create this Visual Effect for the new Dave Barnes “God Gave Me You” music video. The effect involves a photograph developing in Dave’s hands, who looks up to see it has come to life. Click the image to see how we did it!

Watch the Music Video!

How could Scott Gairdner possibly play two roles at once? Why, with Ghostlight Visual Effects, of course! This video shows how we combined two takes with a handheld camera.

Watch I’m From The Future! See photos of our props!

Kevin Shahinian already had a beautiful opening title shot for his film City of Lakes, and asked Ghostlight to provide text to match. We worked with Bentlight Digital, who did the original Visual Effects shot, to incorporate our 3D title, which was eventually swapped for simpler 2D text. Thanks to Kevin and the guys at Bentlight for their collaboration.

Watch City of Lakes! We also made the Pacific Pictures Logo!

Ghostlight provided three animations for MyBestFriendsDoctor.org, a non-profit online healthcare community. It is founded by Andrew Kaiser, who also composed the music for our Intro Reel and Cinematography Reel. Ghostlight created the word “Broken” crumbling and falling to the ground, the pull-back revealing the web address, and the fluttering swarm of cash. Enjoy!

Director Chris Cantwell needed Cinematography and Visual Effects for this very strange self-interview portion of a reel submission. It’s a fairly basic “split-screen” technique until Chris walks in front of himself, casting and receiving his own shadow.

We created this logo for Kevin Shahinian’s company Pacific Pictures. Based on his existing 2D graphic, we built the film reel, ocean, mountains, and sky in 3D and designed the camera movement. After much finessing, the objects were surfaced, lit, rendered, and given subtle shine glows. The final result has enough resolution for projection in cinemas. Thanks to Kevin for the fun project!

See the logo used in Kevin’s film City of Lakes! We also did the City of Lakes Title!

We created these Visual Effects for the Blackstar. The movie was shot in one day and didn’t have the budget for gun blanks, so we added every gunshot, shell ejection, bullet trail, bullet hit, bullet splash, bullet spark, and muzzle flash. We also erased crew members, logos, and crew helicopters. Oh, and the explosion at the end. And the cat’s eyes. Thanks to Craig Dyer, Doug Blake, and the entire crew for an amazing project to work on!

Watch Blackstar to see our Cinematography and Editing! See photos from behind the scenes!

We did the Visual Effects for the short comedy Ledge Fighters. Director Scott Gairdner tells us how we used on-set supervision, a dummy, HDR photography, fireball stock footage, and 3D computer generated barrels to create the explosion scene. Thanks Scott!

Watch Ledge Fighters to see James’ lighting and laugh (at the jokes, not the lighting)!

Ghostlight did the Visual Effects for Krantz, a dark comedy directed by Chris Cantwell. The opening scene required John Krantz to give a speech in front of a giant banner, which we created as a miniature. The movie was shot on the RED, and the Visual Effects were completed at 2K resolution – the same as major motion pictures.

More about Krantz!

We did the Visual Effects for this music video by Shuttlecocks, directed by George Cornelius. The effects include a gunshot, a flying dove, flowing rose petals, a picture coming to life, slow-motion shots of the band, and finally the cityscape at the end.

We did the Visual Effects for the series Nowheremen, DigiSynd’s social reality experience in which players discover the next episode by following a trail of clues. Thanks to directors Matt Wyatt and Rob Maigret, DigiSynd and everyone involved!

Watch the Nowheremen Trailer. Visit the Nowheremen Rememberance Society.

We created this logo for Comedy.com. Using 3D physics simulation, each letter was dropped repeatedly at different orientations until it lined-up with the previous letter. This logo features high quality rendering aesthetics such as soft shadows, light occlusion, and blurred reflections.

We shot up some kid’s room for College Humor’s latest short, Grand Theft Auto for the NES. Watch for our digital gunshots, bullet holes, and fire. We also added an effect where people get sucked into a TV.

We made this “Apple i” commercial for a College Humor sketch, which parodies Steve Jobs’ product presentations. We built the Apple i in 3D to match College Humor’s prop. For the dancers, we filmed buddies from Invisible Engine and DigiSynd on a green screen. Music by Alfred Montejano.

See the 3D stills! Watch College Humor’s Apple i sketch!

Ghostlight made this for College Humor. They sent us the concept, Dave directed, James did the Cinematography, and we did the Visual Effects. It stars Nick Mundy and Michael Ryan Truly from Team Tiger Awesome. Enjoy!

We executed a long list of Visual Effects for College Humor’s Viral Video Politician. And here it is: the Rubik’s cube, the ping pong ball, the Hadouken, and the falling light. No, we didn’t animate the awesome kitty.

Ta da! The world-famous Street Fighter: The Later Years Series Finale arrived at College Humor, and features more of our Visual Effects such as bigger Hadoukens, punches as a means of travel, extended jumps and falls, flying fists of fury, and a guy totally getting stabbed. The very first Street Fighter appeared over 1 year and 3 months ago!

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years Series Finale! See everything Street Fighter!

We added 3D sugar cubes, fructose corn syrup, camera wooshes, a rainbow, a pile of burning books, and more to College Humor’s candy ad Spazzz!!!

Watch Spazzz!!!

Fight! Fight! Fight! Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 8 aired today. It features Ghostlight’s Visual Effects: ultra-fast kicks, making kicks connect, digital camera shake, electrocution, flaming chest hair, and the biggest Hadouken to date!

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 8! See everything Street Fighter!

Ew, gross! We supplied Visual Effects for College Humor’s video Urban Legend ER with a bloody explosion and an empty skull. Sick!

Watch Urban Legend ER!

The Roadie Hero video game ad was released today by College Humor. Ghostlight provided the Visual Effects, including titles, fire, and a fire extinguisher. The gameplay animations were created by Lee Mar.

Watch Roadie Hero!

Kids fighting? Sign us up! We created the Visual Effects for College Humor’s new comedy Million Dollar Babies! We added titles, camera flashes, spittle, and a 3D retainer. Ding, ding!

Watch Million Dollar Babies!

We produced yet another Christmas short! This one was for National Banana, a comedy site created by Jerry Zucker, who’s known for Airplane and the Naked Gun series. We shot stills of the house, isolated lights in Photoshop, animated the lights to the music, and added the Visual Effects (except that last explosion, that was them). Awesome!

We created the Visual Effects for this short comedy at JoeyandDavid.com. Some people think it’s offensive, so check it out!

We created two epic Visual Effects shots for Team Tiger Awesome‘s short comedy Claus, a hilarious combination of The Santa Clause, Lord of the Rings, and 300.

Watch Claus!

We added a sky, candle flames, tranq darts, and lightning to CollegeHumor’s Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 7.

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 7! See everything Street Fighter!

We provided sonic booms, teleportation, destruction, and the “Hundred Hand Slap” for College Humor’s Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 6.

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 6! See everything Street Fighter!

We created Visual Effects for 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot. This College Humor parody strips the popular Fox series of its modern technology by setting the show in 1994. Ghostlight created the opening 24 logo and added old computer graphics to the monitors.

Watch 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot!

We made a digital “lights up” effect and “leg wipe” for the opening of College Humor’s Brohemian Rhapsody – the fraternity version of Queen’s legendary song. Enjoy the short and beware the “mature” content!

Check out the sonic booms, fast kicks, teleportation football, and baby hadoukens we created for the latest episode of College Humor’s popular comedy series!

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 5! See everything Street Fighter!

DigiSynd hired us to create these three ads for the Twisted Terror Collection from Warner Brothers. Dave Directed and Edited, James did the Cinematography, and Ghostlight did the Visual Effects.

Starring David Nash, Evan Gaustad, Jenna Finley, Beck Bennett, Ashleigh Sumner, Sarah Atwood, Jessica Wheeler, and Sarena Khan. Narration by Adam Ray. Music by Andrew Kaiser. Thanks everybody!

We did these Visual Effects for College Humor’s Gummi Bears: The Movie Trailer. Watch for our flying 3D hair balls and glowing gummi berries.

Watch Gummi Bears: The Movie!

Street Fighter has returned! We created two Visual Effects for this episode: a taxicab license plate and a flying inverted spinning helicopter splits kick!

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 4! See everything Street Fighter!

Dutch West hired us to create these Visual Effects for their funny and ambitious series Robert De Niro Back in Time. Ghostlight created time portals, the main title, a night sky, gunshots, and a saber-toothed tiger. Most shots required time-consuming rotoscoping (tracing) actors frame by frame.

Watch Robert De Niro Back In Time Episode One, Episode Two, or Episode Three!

DigiSynd produced this video, also known as Houdini’s Moon, for Ashton Kutcher’s Room 401. Ghostlight did the Cinematography and Visual Effects for this video, which was just one of many clues for DigiSynd’s online alternate reality game, eventually becoming Nowheremen. Thanks to DigiSynd and everyone involved!

Watch in HD! Read fans dissecting the video here!

We blew up our front door and totally nuked Los Angeles for Invisible Engine’s new short film Pop It. Here’s how we did it!

Watch Pop It! See photos from behind the scenes! See screenshots of Pop It featured on several sites!

We made our own iPhone before it’s available! College Humor parodied the new iPhone ads using a prop phone with a green screen. We created and animate the screen’s graphics from scratch. Sometimes the finger didn’t point to the right place, so we warped it. Click the thumbnail on the left to see how we did it!

Watch iPhone Parody One, Two, and Three!

Here’s how we created the Visual Effects for College Humor’s hilariously offensive short WHIT Radio. We placed radio station graphics on taxi cabs, buses, billboards, and a blimp using 2D and 3D animation. Enjoy!

Watch WHIT Radio!

We levitated a possessed girl in What Revver Did 5, the final Revver.com ad created by Invisible Engine. We did the Cinematography and Visual Effects. This video shows how we made Sean fly!

Watch What Revver Did 5: Exorcist! See photos from all 5 ads! See everything Revver!

Here’s how we created the Visual Effects for College Humor’s latest sketch Mementos, a Mentos commercial in the style of the film Memento. We helped plan the effects with College Humor before the shoot. Always a good idea!

Watch Mementos!

Ghostlight summoned butterflies for College Humor’s The Sopranos Censored. The 3D butterflies were modeled, surfaced, and animated in 2 days. Here’s how we did it!

Watch The Sopranos Censored!

Most of the time, filmmakers don’t want you to notice the Visual Effects in their movies. Here are some shots from Rushers that director Joey Boukadakis didn’t want you to see!

See behind-the-scenes photos! See everything Rushers!

While Dave was Editing the film, director Joey Boukadakis asked if we could make this particular shot more exciting. Here’s how we brought this shot of Greek Row to life using crowd duplication and a 3D banner. Enjoy!

See behind-the-scenes photos! See everything Rushers!

Here’s how we created these 3D titles tracked into real environments shot with a hand-held camera for Branham High School.

We created these Visual Effects for College Humor’s Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 3.

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 3! See everything Street Fighter!

See how we created 3D Santa ornaments for College Humor’s new short Nick’s Commercials: Winter Wonderland!

We did the Cinematography and Visual Effects for the second Revver.com ad by Invisible Engine. This video shows how we did the gnomes. Yummy!

Watch What Revver Did 2: The Dragon! See photos from all 5 ads! See everything Revver!

We made Nick Clark fly in an ad for Revver.com, produced by Invisible Engine. This video shows how we did the Visual Effects, but we also did the Cinematography. Enjoy!

Watch What Revver Did 1: Magical Powers! See photos from all 5 ads! See everything Revver!

We created the Visual Effects for the second part of College Humor’s comedy series. Here’s how we did it!

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 2! See everything Street Fighter!

We created this Visual Effect for College Humor’s latest short comedy series. What’s that you say? You want behind-the-scenes info with more details than you care to know? No problem! Just click the image and enjoy.

Watch Street Fighter: The Later Years – Part 1! See everything Street Fighter!

Ghostlight made this video for a DVD company that wanted to show what an in-store game might look like. Our friend Joey Boukadakis wrote the concept. We created the game’s interface, color scheme, mechanics, menus, buttons, doors, shifting backgrounds, TVs, confetti, and so on. Thanks to Joey and everyone involved in this project.

Check out how we burned Chad in Eulogy for Chad, a short comedy by Invisible Engine.

Watch Eulogy For Chad!

We created this bleeding title for the re-release of Jefrey Obrow’s 1982 horror film The Dorm That Dripped Blood. Thanks to Glenn Hemanes for the font treatment!

Watch the Dorm That Dripped Blood trailer!

Ghostlight finished the last Visual Effect for The Harvest in which one actor puts a cigarette out in someone’s eye. Because the cigarette was not lit during filming, we shot and composited smoke and spark elements in post.

We created some cool Visual Effects for The Harvest, a horror film about revenge from beyond the grave. Here’s how we replaced this actor’s eyes with scarier ones!

Ever wonder how Disneyland does those amazing fireflies? Well, this ain’t it. We used Visual Effects to populate this scene from The Harvest with tons of 3D fireflies. Here’s how we did it!

This was Zoe Jarman’s best take, but it could’ve used more fish in the background. Here’s how we added fish from other takes!

See everything from The Prototype!

How to light a kitchen on fire! Borrow a friend’s barbeque. Build a trough out of blackwrap. Fill with lighter fluid. Film the flames in front of a black background. Composite the flames over the shot. Add a little glow. On-set light interactivity preferred.

See everything from The Prototype!

Ghostlight created this train entirely in the computer for the film The Prototype. The handheld shot was never intended for Visual Effects, which made incorporation difficult due to a lack of on-set supervision and measurements. This video shows how we modeled, surfaced, animated, and composited the train for the film’s climax.

Featured by Lightwave 3D and PFhoe! See everything from The Prototype!

Today we completed our most technically complex DVD ever. The disk will accompany the filmmakers and script for 4×4 on financing missions. Behind its seemingly simple interactive environment are months of intense Visual Effects and programming work. This video is a guided tour of the completed DVD.

Check out the rejected 4×4 title Visual Effects we did! See photos from behind the scenes!

Ghostlight created this 3D title for the “4×4″ pitch DVD.  The title, which is an early example of camera tracking, was later rejected, but here’s how we did it!

Ghostlight was hired by Merging Promotions to provide Cinematography, Editing, Visual Effects, and DVD services to promote New Directions For Women, a chemical dependency treatment center for women. Here are highlights from the video!

Check out the DVD we created!

Enjoy this walkthrough of the DVD we created for our documentary Leigh In Hawaii.

You can also watch the trailer! See photos from us working in Hawaii!

Ghostlight shot this joke video for a medical company which required an office to be infested with butterflies. We cut out paper butterflies, which were lightly taped to the walls and actors, then blown with fans. For the butteflies in the air, we used computer animation.

See behind-the-scenes photos!

Dave shot and directed this during film school at USC. It stars Aaron Fischer and Trevor Peterson.