Three more video updates from various projects I’ve worked on over the past few months. It’s great that I learned I have a love for rollercoasters last year, because that’s what the last six months have been. No, not a hoary old cliche, but a practically breakneck, high speed, high octane, fire all your guns and explode into space series of ups and downs. One highlight of which was having the film that I produced and edited last year — Photo Booth — not only make it into Tropfest, but to also come third overall. I’m enormously proud of the film and the experience I had working with everyone on it. I learned a lot, so I’m happy to be able to finally put it on my website:
This next video (by Michael Knott and Jason Klaassen) is something that I edited after we finished Photo Booth last year:
And finally here is the promo video for an iPad App, iSewAcademy, that I have been helping with the past five months. Produced by Academy Apps it’s an app that helps people learn to sew different patterns. I’m responsible for all of the video filming and editing:
Here’s two of the videos that I worked on this year. One of the more recent is this, an edit of Mad Max 1 + 2 footage set to Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”:
The other is something from the beginning of the year, a music video for “Fickle” by Ohai. I completed most of the animation for this (working from some excellent designs by my friend Amy — check out her site, it’s full of good things) as well as the motion tracking and compositing:
I’m not even going to try and explore the sheer lack of attention this site has been getting from me. Instead — here’s some pictures. The first is a drawing of Josh Holloway from this morning.
And here are some pictures from last year and my adventure back to Parkes, including exploring an abandoned hatch in the ground.
…at South Bank. I turned up as the performer was getting his equipment together to juggle on his cycle. As he got ready he addressed the crowd and apologised for some kids off to the side. There were about five of them, none of them more than nine or ten years old, and they scowled back at him. I’m guessing they’d been harassing him the entire performance. As he apologised one of them — with the most wonderfully petulant, bogan grimace — gave him the finger and the image burned into my mind. It was so horribly hilarious. It’s amazing how tough some kids believe they are; I’m twenty two and I don’t even know where to begin when I comes to toughness.
I don’t think I quite captured the kid’s scowl, try as I might. It was the sort of face made of anger and resentment that only the young can do, apparently sucking all of their baby fat into a controlled black hole somewhere in the vicinity of their nose.
I’ve designed it in the hope of making it into a shirt for myself someday. Hopefully it’s the start of many more.
It’s been a while since I’ve paid you any attention, website. So, like a man returning home from several months of absence with flowers, here I am with some pictures.
These first few are not original by any means—each was referenced from a photo I pulled from the internet and I cannot claim the composition or the subject as my own. Only the messy strokes that complicate things.
For this Donald Duck below the idea was mine but the pose was referenced. The interesting thing is that this is based off the first reference I found because it was literally the pose I imagined in my head. And finally the pictures below are all my own:
I flew down to Sydney two weeks ago to see Stephen Fry at the Opera House, and then flew down again just over a week later for Neil Gaiman. Both nights were excellent, and I had the biggest smile on my face when each man walked onto the stage. Of the two nights, I think – and as a massive Stephen Fry fan (as in, he’s a personal hero)this is saying something – I enjoyed Neil Gaiman’s reading the most. The combination of Neil Gaiman’s words, Eddie Campbell’s images, and FourPlay’s music was magic.
I didn’t take many photos during my visit for Stephen Fry, despite bringing my camera, but I had a morning to myself while waiting for a table discussion with Shaun Tan, Eddie Campbell and Neil Gaiman so I wandered around Sydney Harbour for a few hours snapping off shots.
And finally the pictures below are all my own:
Cannot wait for this movie. This, Inception and Toy Story 3 are, I suspect, going to be the films I adore the most this year.
