GoPro Hero3 Impressions from an Action Filmmaker’s Perspective

I bought my GoPro Hero3 Black Edition from Best Buy along with chest and head straps for the sole purpose of doing first-person action scenes. The FPS movie (“found footage”) genre is one of my favorites, and I think it’s criminally underused, especially in the action cross-genre, so my hopes have been to create solid action content for the FPS and found footage fans out there with our special brand. W...Read more

Choose Your Weapon Level 2 – You Chose Banana!

Check out the latest episode of  Choose Your Weapon. You chose banana, here’s the result!

And for those who chose Nunchaku, here’s the result of that.

Now decide between Ray Gun of Questionable Origin, or the lame Pistol.

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Buy/Rent Contour aka The Agent at the Playstation Online Store

Our distributor Indican has definitely come through on my first feature film Contour, first changing the name to  The Agent to get better international sales (with success), and now getting the film on the Playstation Store, among many other VOD platforms. If you wanna check out how compares with my original  Contour cut, check it out on PSN!

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Choose Your Weapon – GoPro Melee Weapon Fighting

We’re trying out a new series concept where we use the GoPro to enact a weapons fight in the vein of Grand Theft Auto, or even more accurately the ancient Neo Geo arcade game Super Spy. Check it out, comment to tell us which weapon we should use next, and share!

Starring Thomas Tan as GoPro man and Eric Jacobus as the evil NPC.

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New Media Rockstars Interview

I was recently hosted on the New Media Rockstars website where I talked about  Mortal Kombat Legacy and all stuff Stunt People related. The article is here: http://newmediarockstars.com/2013/03/stunt-peoples-eric-jacobus-talks-darth-gopro-lightsabers-his-mortal-kombat-legacy-role-interview/

Here’s the full video interview:

Thanks NMR!

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The Deleted Fight from A Good Day to Die Hard – Previz by Eric Jacobus, Alvin Hsing, and J. J. Perry

After we spent a week at 87eleven, Alvin Hsing and I came away with this video to show what came of our efforts – a pre-viz (choroegraphed and shot rough version) for the final knife fight in A Good Day to Die Hard(that’s  Die Hard #5). The scene called for McClane to face off against the film’s villain Alik on a rooftop, with Alik wielding a knife and using som...Read more

“Vader Strikes” – A GoPro Lightsaber Fight by The Stunt People

We used a GoPro to capture a lightsaber battle in the first-person perspective. Enjoy!Video: http://youtu.be/CvOBmi0Lg2s

Starring Gary Ripper as Darth Vader and Eric Jacobus as Jedi

Choreography, costumes, and props by Alain Bloch and Daniel Okada

GoPro Operation: Thomas Tan

Production Assistant: Leonard Zhang

Visual Effects: Ulrik Bruccholz ( http:/...Read more

Photo Shoot by Tony Chu Photography

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Mortal Kombat Legacy Season 2 Trailer Released

The Mortal Kombat Legacy Season 2 trailer is out, and I have the honor of playing the Stryker character in the new episodes. Check out the trailer, and sit tight – the real episodes are coming soon!

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The Stunt People pay homage to Double Dragon with Triple Dragon – Watch Now!

We at The Stunt People are all a bunch of gamer geeks, so here’s our tribute to one of the best beat-em-ups ever made,  Triple Dragon ! Stars Lucas Okuma, Dennis Ruel, and me, taking on four levels of retro insanity Double Dragon-style. Hell we even ripped off the beginning of the game because we couldn’t think of anything more original.

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