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.   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 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 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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   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 3D Jab A project from university, the aim to incorporate 3D elements into a live action video. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   2002 Car Park Clones An army of clones march towards the camera, with hilarious results* *may be a lie Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.   2002 Montreal Meteor Bird? Plane? Nah, meteor. Ideas, improvements or comments? - let me know! Download Roll mouse over the icons to see file sizes.