Here’s a family photo from about 1901, before and after being coloured in Photoshop. The colours may not all be authentic, but it’s nice to see these people looking – I hope – a little more like they did in real life rather than distanced by the illusion that our grandparents lived in another world where everything was black and white.
When I put my showreel DVD together recently, I did a few refinements on this animated history of Arctic exploration. There’s an exhibition now on at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on this very subject, which I’m looking forward to seeing.
I was delighted this evening to find “Steam Trek”, the silent spoof Star Trek film I made with a bunch of mates on Billaricay Common many years ago, given a nice write-up on MSN in connection with the new Star Trek film. A minor dispute – it accuses us of using carboard sets, when in fact our budget would only stretch to brown paper.
This in an exercise in Photshop and After Effects; the idea was to ‘take apart’ some classic paintings into a number or individual layers and elements then put them back together to form a three-dimensional space.
Don’t you hate holiday videos that go on for hours? Here’s a two-minute edit of our holiday in Mallorca last summer, with a heavy helping of After Effects trickery… basically this was just an excuse to practice with that program, which is a lot of fun to use.
Here’s a few illustrations I’ve been playing around with. The originals are for sale on my Etsy page.
