Experimental Multimedia Artist: 3D, Video, Photography, Motion Graphics and Beyond..
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100 DVDs
Feb 25th
In the new year I went on the Nottingham Trent Snowsports trip to Tignes in France. I was responsible for documenting all the crazy stuff that went down.
Since we got back I’ve been busy editing all the footage and producing a DVD. Kane has also given his creative input. He created the cover, menu and provided some cool animations.
Over all the main video is 16 minutes long with 6 minutes of extra features and 195 high res images.
That’s what 101 DVDs looks like. Looks a lot more than I was expecting.
After I had finally settled on the master copy (after 6 different versions made) I sent the art work and master copy to a company called http://www.vponline.co.uk/. I was really pleased with this service, very professional would highly recommend if you ever need DVDs or CDs replicated.
I decided to get the discs thermally printed and get the full size cover, this was more expensive but it looks a lot nicer.
Here’s the cover design and menu design, created by Kane. I created the DVD artwork using a Stereographic image I took at the top of the mountain.
So over all I’m really pleased with the results! It’s taken up sooo much of my time but I think it has paid off… well I now need to sell them all for it to actually be paid off but I have enjoyed the process at least.
Pixel Motion – Stop Motion Technique
Feb 16th
I came across the following video the other week and was amazed by the effect mustardcuffins had created. I spent a long time trying to think how it was done.
Drift from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.
I was producing some work for a project when I came across the pixel motion frame blending option in After Effects. I realized that this is what gave this stop motion that awesome smooth blending transition effect.
The next day I went out and took some photos to see if I could recreate that effect.
All these shots were taken with the Nikon D90 and the 18-107mm kit lens.
First test. Not quite as smooth mustards but its nearly there.
More examples and a tutorial after the break.
Artefact two
Feb 14th
This is the second (of six) mini projects I’ve set myself that involve the key techniques of compositing.
The first Artefact was focusing on layers and how to manipulate sill imagery.
This time I’ve looked at 2D motion tracking and stabilization. I’ve also briefly looked at Keying and masking, but i will go into those in more detail in future projects.
Artefact Two from Rob Antill on Vimeo.
Mouse Path
Feb 8th
Joe T showed me a really cool Java App the other day. It’s called Mouse Path and it basically tracks where your mouse pointer has been over a certain amount of time. You can also have it draw a circle when the mouse is inactive, the longer you leave it the larger the circle.
Here’s my mouse path over about 3 hours while I was setting up this new blog.
Here it is overlaid on the background to get an idea what I was up to. You can see I was using tabs quite a bit.
If you would like to have a go download it here
Credit to Anatoly Zenkov
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Feb 8th
This is the all NEW home for the Digital Anthill. But If you would like to see my older posts please head to my old blog @ www.digitalanthill.blogspot.com or click the image below.
Nice one..
