book - digital character painting

book - motion by design

Motion By design

This book comes with a DVD mounted to the cover

harry potter

Since the trailer presented that concept with Riddle's words as a boy over images of actions committed by him or in his name later in life — "I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me" — the effect made it seem more like a horror film, fans said.

Not all fans appreciated that. "Ooh, exciting!" said Sandra Pieloch, a senior designer for Nickelodeon Creative Resources. "Only I didn't know the newest 'Harry Potter' was being directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It feels like some Brit remake of 'The Sixth Sense.' "

"The cinematography is on a much grander scale," Bensoussan said. "From the graphic effects surrounding Dumbledore to the chilling scene of Bonnie in the woods, or of Ron lying death-like on the floor, 'Half-Blood Prince' looks to be bolder, darker and more intense."

"The movies pale in comparison to the actual books," said Raina Tinker, a designer at HarperCollins, "but this one looks dark and creepy, which is how the book was."

trailer - DV footage "illegal"

This film was shot using a 35mm lens adapter for digital camcorders called the M2 redrock. This was attached to a Panasonic AG-HVX200 which in itself is an amazing bit of kit. the Panasonic allows for the user to shoot at 24 frames a second, rather than the usual 25 or 30 frames, which gives it a film like motion

book - logo lounge

In preparation for my dissertation, i bought volumes 1 & 2 of this series. It's basically a book full of commercial logos.

The Movie Font

Sundowning - DV looks like 35mm

Sundowning Trailer


Jim Cole shot all this film using only a Canon GL2 MiniDV Digital Camcorder with the in-camera 16:9 ratio. A lot of Red Giants Magic Bullet software went into this but as you can see it has that Depth Of Field required to give it that "movie look".

Big Buck Bunny - Blender Animation

Big Buck Bunny is an animation project by the Blender Foundation, created by the Blender Institute. Impressively, it was created using the free software 'Blender', an open source software, and is also distributed under an open license that gives artists free access to the entire studio database of assets and files used to make the movie.

This could finally provide some competition for pixar wich in turn would spur them on to the next level.

Atishu - Apprentice Advert Task

Thought I would start off with this shocker from this years season of the apprentice. It's so bad I don't know where to begin.

Firstly the acting:
Corny acting aside, The Dad Is obsessed with the fact that the tissues are anti-bacterial. This should make him come across as some weirdo with a germ free OCD but then he fools us all by grabbing the kids snotty nose without even holding a flipping tissue. Adding even more insult to injury is the fact that his statement is actually creating false advertising. Colds are viral infections and are not bacterial. Saying the girl will be fine by using anti-bacterial tissues is definitely false, as anti-bacterial products would have no effect on a virus.

Packaging:
The box looks like some knock off Wheatabix packaging that you would find next to the 'smart price' 'bettabuy' 'supasava' brands. Would you trust it as a product? not at all. Maybe a strapline of 'The tissue made with real anti-bacterial wheat' should be added to the box. Awful Photoshop work, some images in colour, some colourised, a lovely image of a girl expelling mucus from her nostrils. I can think of somewhere more appropriate than my nose to wipe with it.

Music:
"You are the sunshine of my life". If a tissue was the sunshine of my life, would that make 'Andrex' the eclipse? Poor choice, poor fade in, poor in general.


Barry Scott would be proud.