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September 2010 Demo Reel

Once again my dear friends, the time has come to put out a new demo reel. The year at Teesside University is behind me and it is time to fill out job applications. Or so I've been told anyway. Read More...

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It’s been a while

So it's been a while a few weeks a couple of months. First there was Easter, then there was intensive work to finish the final year project and write a good report, then Studio Practice & Business had its turn, and suddenly and without quite knowing how I got there, two months had just vanished. Read More...

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AVE previs ready

Christmas is long gone and I'm back in Middlesbrough after a refreshing break. The first thing I had to focus on when I got back was to create a presentation for Advanced Visual Effects where we were to present a storyboard, previs, schedule and a couple of other things regarding the ICA. Read More...

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Let me stitch that for you…

Having recently acquired a digital SLR, I've been trying to wrap my head around concepts such as hdri, tone mapping and photo stitching lately. Read More...

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Tutorial: Postapocalyptic City Part 2

Compositing in After Effects is in many ways very similar to working in Photoshop. If you are familiar with layers, masks, blending modes and/or filters, compositing in After Effects should be a breeze. Read More...

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Tutorial: Postapocalyptic City Part 1

In this tutorial I'll take you through the process of quickly creating a textured city in 3d studio max 2009 and how you, through a few extra render passes, can go from a quite crappy render to something half-way decent using After Effects CS3. Read More...

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Previz draft 2 and some other stuff

I know, I promised to post this more than a week ago, but it's the holidays and found a few things I wanted to test before I started rendering the final shots. Read More...

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Assembling storyboard and
animatic for the new story

This sunday Andreas and I scanned in the new storyboard and started assembling it digitally as well as beginning work on the new animatic. We had to leave the building before five though and didn't finish. Read More...

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Noting down the key points

Today was a long day. When we arrived this morning, the storyboard wasn't finished, the work on the animatic wasn't even started, and there was a presentation to make. Add an ill team member and another that needed to leave early and you have the recipe for a long day at school. Read More...

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Summary of the last few days

I haven't had time to write anything the last few days unfortunately, so I'll try putting the essentials down in this post. Read More...

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