Smoke On Mertin

A dynamic sound piece created in after effects, using various Red Giant plugins like Particulate and Soundkey. different frequencies of the sound are linked to different physical elements within the environment , like wind, turbulence, particle genoration and so on....good old bit of whim in the background, sorry for the audio quality never got around to doing a real render.

An Interview on pirate radio With Paul Roast Co-founder of Life FM

An Interview on pirate radio With Paul Roast Co-founder of Life FM. This was shot for a documentary I am making on the history of pirate radio.... more to come soon

Very first reactable test

This is my very first attempt at a reactable using Reactavison, Native instruments FM 8 and Puredata. I hope to continue with Puredata to create an interactive installation for a final year project.

After effects motion graphics 7 sins test

This is the beginning of an interactive animation about the 7 sins mad with after effects, in the finished peice this video is loaded in to flash to create interaction.

This is a colour correction test I did using after effects, still a long way to go, want to create a rotoscoped mask around her to create a more accurate correction. Sorry for the little technical glitch, laptop started playing up halfway through render.

A Street Car Named Desire

This is a short film I made back in September 2010 based on a passage of writing taken from the  1950s film 'a street car named desire'.

RedHands Logo

This is part of a logo design and Indent for the concept of the group, RedHands. I made this using Realflow, Cinema 4D and after effects. This is an ongoing project and I hope to have more on this soon...

TV Indent Project

This is a Television Indent I created based on the sky logo,
This was made in Cinema 4D and after effects. I made this
to help my progression in learning new skills in C4D.

EBOY

"eBoy, the innovative and seminal pixel art pioneers exhibited at Concrete Hermit in May. eBoy is a pixel art group founded in 1998 by Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr. From their Berlin studio they create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork. Entire cityscapes, rich in detail have been created for London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and this exhibition sees the latest city to get the eBoy unique visionary panoramic treatment: Los Angeles.

Their work makes intense use of popular culture and commercial icons, and their style is presented in three-dimensional illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls.

Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, and they have worked with among others, named brands and companies such as Coca-Cola, MTV, VH1, Adidas, and Honda. They were also involved in creating the album cover for Groove Armada’s 2007 studio album Soundboy Rock." Sourced from Concrete Hermit

The Impact of The Pixel Art Movement and chip tunes.

An 11 minute documentary exploring the merits and impact of pixel art, animation. 
secondly, chiptune music and the Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ.

The difference between dominance and proportion.

Dominance

In design dominance is used to create a variety of differing emphasis within a composition, dominance is used frequently within design to bring a hierarchy of importance to a composition, this has become second nature to designers and the viewer. It has been implicated as standard in many modern design tools, for example the hyper text mark up language used by the world wide web has preset values for Headers (dominant) Sub headers (sub-dominant) and paragraphs (subordinate). These are the three main categories of dominance in design to create visual effect and draw the views eye, although many more can be used.


Proportion
Proportion is the comparison of different elements within the design, comparing either dimension or position with relation to one or more elements. The designer can use proportion to gain rhythm, symmetry, or a sense of depth to a composition. for example, a designer may try and maintain the same corner angle on all text boxes within a design to maintain a standard of proportion and a balanced composition.



The above text is written in three different font sizes, the header drawing your eye to the top of the page being the Dominant, then your eye tracks down to the first sub-header "dominance" and then to the second sub-header "proportion" witch are both sub-dominate to the header, these two sub-headers are in proportion to one another reflecting equal status. The main difference between dominance and proportion is that dominance includes the composition as a whole, whereas proportion can be in relation to anything within the composition.

Night Photography

 Here are a selection of photographs taken at about midnight in my local park near the house I lived in last year. The pictures were taken with a FinePix S1500 at: (f stop 2.8) (ISO 800) and with an exposure time of 8 seconds.

Just a bat taken on a night walk in Buckfastleigh.

This photo was taken on a dark night from my bedroom window at about 3am, this is the only photo I enhanced slightly with Photoshop, it really shows how much light pollution there is in a big city like London.

These pictures were taken with a Nikon 35mm SLR and 
then developed by myself. these are some of my first experiments with night photography. My inspiration for these nigh shots came from Brassai, one of the founding fathers of night photography back in the 1930s, Brassai made his name photographing the tography came after studying Brassai macabre underworld of the streets of Paris.

Brassai - Cesspool cleaners

Brassai - Dancing girl

Self Portrait

Here is a self portrait I made a few years ago, using a stencil and ink. not much more to say...

Tepee Website launched

Here is the result of my first bit of paid web design work I received over the summer. It is for a charity company called TEPEE which aim to promote the importance of children's play, I kept the original colour scheme and logo, and tried to make a fun looking site aimed at adults. Some of the web sites feature's include pop out Java calendar, contact form and images. Flash animation including a turning book newsletter and catalogue. Database linked membership form.

some funny little drawings I did in photoshop with my Wacom tablet.

After Effects Evolution Animation

This is an animation I made in after effects.

Another one!

rotoscoping interactive video

This is a little animation I made as a test. I first shot a video of myself, then converted it to a frame by frame image sequence in quick time pro. I then set up photoshop to automatically add a range of filters to each image to give a rotoscope effect, then converted it back to a video. I then brought the video in to after effects and duplicated it and reversed it to create a looping video. I then split it in to four smaller videos. Vid1 is a flicker, a couple of frames from the beginning. Vid2 is the mouth opening, vid3 is the middle flicker and vid4 is the mouth closing. I then brought these videos in to flash where I made the interactive video animation and added sound.

My Flash Alien Animation Project

This is an animation I made in flash. I used after effects to make the intro scene and alot of digital video inside the animation using partical generators.

Pushing Pixels

The Power Of CSS3