Sep 06 Jail Break A brief, simple, animation. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Sep 06 Test Drive (Incomplete) A test to create a simple 3D environment for a real world object. The car was spun round on a mirror, and a road created within After Effects was rotated to match the movement. The masking was left loose as I didn't think a clean-up was worth it for this test (if the effect looked half convincing it would be worthwhile to reshoot with greenscreen). The car is Shockblast. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Mar 06 Alive Events - Flash Flash introduction and miscellaneous videos. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View Alive Events Website www.aliveevents.co.uk   Jan 06 File On You - Animation A very short animation test, the music is Blurs 'We've Got A File On You'. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Jan 06 Threads of Destiny - Teaser trailer Currently in pre-production by Tirzitis Entertainment, "Threads of Destiny" is the first in a planned trilogy of films. For this teaser I was asked to work on six shots, replacing greenscreen with the required scenery. The shots in order are: Kicking the Stormtrooper Stormtrooper firing Man being shot Punching the Stormtrooper Grabbing the Stormtrooper Firing at camera Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download site Tirzitis Entertainment   Jan 06 Castle Set An excercise in virtual set building using the 3D capability of After Effects. (Yes, that's Buffy) Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Jan 06 Agents of the Force James Bond meets Star Wars in this explosive action thriller from Next Horizon Films. What if there was more to Ronald Reagan's program than what the public was told, and the Star Wars technology was developed? When it is stolen, CIA agents Ryan Davis and Kate Park are sent to recover the technology. Opposing them is the evil Shane Veers, who will stop at nothing to bring about the destruction of the United States. I was responsible for creating the rain effects for the agent battle. For each shot I separated foreground and background elements, applying different strengths of rain to both (objects in the foreground would have less rain falling in front of them than objects in the background). In an attempt to integrate the rain a little better, I added ripples (a generated noise pattern) on the floor, again masking out foreground elements. Unfortunately time was against me, and I believe more could be done to improve the effect - maybe next time. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download site Next Horizon Films Alternate downloads site fanfilms.theforce.net   Jan 06 Checking Watch - Animation A very short animation test, certainly something to keep working on. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Dec 05 The Injured Stormtrooper A short film written and directed by Brian Finifter of Riddle Players Productions. Injured Stormtrooper is another Star Wars fan film, the second for Riddle Players Production. Its concept originated out of the question of why it always seems that all stormtroopers' casualties are apparently fatal. In contrast to combat in the real world, wounded soldiers typically outnumber those killed by a great deal. But never, apparently, in the Star Wars universe. Injured Stormtrooper explores the idea of what would happen if a stormtrooper were simply wounded, and how his comrades might react to the situation. Unfortunately, time ran out during production and shooting began on unfinished sets. I was asked to clean up the set, digitally remove seams in the walls, add new flooring, keypads and other details. You can take a look at exactly how much changed by watching the comparison video below. To finish, laser effects and explosions were added by Markus Zimmerman. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download site The Injured Stormtrooper Site Alternate download site www.theforce.net Download FX Comparison Video Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Nov 05 Clonetrooper Head Swap I have been trying to understand tracking a little better, and this is a small test that started as a tracking exercise. The original footage (from Revenge of the Sith) was first stabilised to remove the slow zoom. A clean background plate was then patched together from a variety of frames so that when the heads were removed there wouldn't be a hole in the background. Next the heads were removed, and new heads shot. The new heads were then tracked to the footage and composited over the new background to fit the scene. To finish the zoom was added again by scaling up the completed composition. I'm reasonably pleased with this as a test, not perfect, but a start! Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Nov 05 EBS - Flash Flash navigation and animation for a new site. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View Electronic Business Systems Website www.e-b-s.co.uk   Nov 05 Simply Shred Website A new website design complete with Flash content. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View Simply Shred Website www.simplyshred.co.uk   Nov 05 Rebecca Hunter Recruitment - Flash Flash introduction and banner for Rebecca Hunter Recruitment. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View Rebecca Hunter Recruitment Website www.rebeccahunter.co.uk   Nov 05 Napoleon Complex MY entry to the CEMRIAC Autumn Festival 2005. Unfortunatley it wasn't as succesful as Known Enemy but I'm pleased with it all the same. Greenscreen and miniatures were used to create the sense of scale whilst the robot costume was left over from Star Wars 1937. This film was edited to go with a different track, but copyright clearance was not obtained in time for the festival. A huge thank you to Caiaphas for helping with the music at the last minute! Fire effects from Detonation Films. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   Aug 05 Salt Water A waterfall created by pouring salt. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   July 05 Sin City Agent Creating the look of Sin City (based from the trailers at least) mixed with a bit of the Matrix. The music is from The Matrix Revolutions (The Trainman Cometh - Juno Reactor and Don Davis). UPDATE: If you would like to learn more about this effect, there is a walkthrough written here. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   June 05 Projected Screen (Work in Progress) An effort to create the holographic screen effect seen in many sci-fi films today. This is very basic at the moment, with more work to be done. The scanlines used are from CrewOfTwo.com. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   May 05 JVM - Flash Flash introduction and multiple flash videos for JVM's site. UPDATE: Added a Chinese version of the site. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View J.V.Murcott Website www.jvmcastingstamworth.com   April 05 Vic Chamberlain Associates Ltd - Flash Some flash videos for the website of VCA. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View Vic Chamberlain Associates Ltd Website www.vcaltd.com   April 05 The Duel A short video of a cowboy-style duel. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   March 05 Star Wars 1937 Star Wars as it might have been, if it was made in the 1930's! Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download site Star Wars 1937 www.starwars1937.com   January 05 Lightsaber Blur (aka Robot Decapitation) Apparently you're nobody in effects untill you've done a lightsaber - so here's my attempt! The saber is made using a variation of Ryan Wieber's method so that the saber has a trail. In addition to the saber, there are some smoke effects, wall slicing and a robotic clone. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   December 04 'Thing' Test Just a quick test at creating a disembodied hand. More on this sort of thing to come... Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   November 04 Caiaphas - The Crush, Live at the Coventry Jailhouse This video was pieced together from a 30 minute set as an experiment. The sound was taken from the cameras rather than the sound desk, because of this it is not of high quality. UPDATE: A second gig was filmed, this time with the correct audio. A DVD has since been made for the band. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   October 04 Adverts to Muse, Hyper Music The idea for this video spawned from the b3ta website when they linked to Rid's 80's Ads site. With over two hours worth of footage, there must be enough to make a music video? Right? This is the result. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   September 04 Redburn Transfer A Flash intro for the Redburn Transfer (a trucking company) website. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! View Redburn Transfer Website www.redburn.co.uk   September 04 Indy IV Teaser Trailer A teaser for the new Indiana Jones film that's supposed to be coming out. Mostly created in 3D, it's a work in progress. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   July 04 Green Goblin Giggles I wanted to try Automatic Dialogue Replacement (ADR), so I made this. There are no original sounds from the video. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   April 04 Known Enemy My first real attempt at making a short film using the cloning techniques. This was an entry in a local film competition, designed to showcase special effects. It's heavily influenced from the Matrix universe, but not actually from the Matrix universe (if that makes sense?) Some effects include, Cloning Digital tilting of the 'camera' Explosions and shattering effects Morphing The gun was from a toy shop, I don't think it looks too bad considering! UPDATE: Winner CEMRIAC Autumn Festival 2004, 60-Second Competition! (Audience Vote) Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   March 04 Hallway Ambush An ambush! This was a short test to see if blood splatters could be effectively added in post (no bloody mess to clean up), along with cloning and artificial camera movement. UPDATE: If you would like to learn more about this effect, there is a tutorial written here. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   March 04 Clone Inspection This was a brief sequel to the Hallway Ambush video, where the clones are preparing to strike back. In reality, this was an attempt at mixing a faked pan from within a computer with an actual pan, and it turned out pretty well. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   2003 KoRn - Hollow Life (Music Video) A project from university, a music video for the metal band KoRn. A mixture of live action and 3D work. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Film Download Animatic Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.

 

2003 3D Jab A project from university, the aim to incorporate 3D elements into a live action video. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know!

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2002 30 Second Attack A video trying to cram a load of visual effects into a short space of time. Includes model aeroplanes, which I'm quite pleased with. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know!	Download Film Download Animatic

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