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’ve uploaded another video to the gallery – it’s a mix of behind the scenes clips of The Road Warrior in 60 Seconds (out takes, alternate shots, etc.) as well as various bits and pieces of video from my HDV camera and iPhone. It was a fun little exercise, and I liked playing around with footage that I might otherwise have never used. I also enjoyed the late nights spent working on it – nothing like staying up late to work on something because you’re still enthusiastic enough about it that you can’t pull yourself away.
I’ve added another timelapse video to the video gallery, and another photo, appropriately enough, to the photo gallery.
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I’m also listening to the soundtrack for the fifth season of Lost. I sometimes think Michael Giacchino understood the show better than anyone else, perhaps even the writers.
…after a year under construction. I won’t pretend that it was actively under construction during that time, or that any effort was put into at all until today. How quickly things can change.
There’s four videos currently, with more to come in the future – and I’ll be upfront: the next videos might be a while. I’ll put them up when I can, but that might be any time.
Anyway.
My stalwart portfolio video is there, as are two timelapse videos. The other is my entry for Empire’s Done in 60 Seconds competition earlier in the year – it’s a minute long remake of The Road Warrior (or Mad Max 2, depending on what you prefer), featuring cars, motorbikes, gyro copters, feral kids wearing garbage bags, a villains with a colander masks, and much abused gyro captains.
I’ve spent the afternoon attempting to embed the video for your convenience on the front page here – right in this post – but, frustratingly, I haven’t been able to get it to work. Still, if you’re interested it is but one click away in the video section.
And hopefully this marks the beginning of more attention being lavished on this website. I’ve maintained that it would always get more investment as soon as I had access to better internet – and now I do.
I hope drawings and photos will flow more frequently, and I also hope to contribute more writing to the site; not just the self-referential and slightly mad kind, but – hopefully – fleshed out thoughts and articles. I want to improve as a writer, and I think this website is the perfect piece of exercise equipment for achieving that.
