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.
This is one of a series of Flash banners I did for Unit9 and Bartle Bogle Hegarty, as part of the “unbox the box” campaign for Audi. Code was added to the completed animation later by the developers at Unit9, after I delivered this version to them, so once the animation has played you’ll find that the buttons don’t work!
I’ve brought my showreel a little more up to date; here it is.
In 2007, an agency that wishes to remain nameless was hired by a client who wishes to remain nameless to commission a film for a website promoting a petition to free Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oligarch imprisoned in Siberia by Putin’s regime. Nominally, he’s there for tax evasion. The fact that he’s a potential political threat… well, enough said.
www.asiberiantale.com
Possibly my best job ever was working on The Secret Show. The characters were fun to animate, and we got the chance to add a lot of our own personal touches to the animation. Here’s a montage of some of my contribution to the show. Of course all I did here was move the characters around; credit for the design, writing layout, music and voices goes to about a hundred other people – though I must give a special mention to Dave Elden, to whose divinely inspired production schedules this show owes much.
http://www.thesecretshow.com/
Here’s some photos from the woods around Perstein, Near Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. The battery in my camera had died so I had to take these with my phone. There’s no Photoshop work involved here except the slightest bit of cropping and colour/contrast alteration – the wavy effect in some of them was done on the spot. There’s a simple trick to it!
Perstein woods
