Multimedia artist
Personal Projects
24 Hour Time-Lapse Project
May 18th
Making a 24 hour time lapse is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time now and I’ve finally done it! getting the camera set up right proved to be the hardest part. But now I know how its done I can improve the technique for next time!
So here it is..
If you click the Vimeo link below you can view it in HD… its worth it 
24 hour time-lapse from Rob Antill on Vimeo.
So I set up the camera in my window facing west to capture the sun set (also away from any neighbours windows…) I put the camera to aperture priority mode and set the aperture to F4. When in this mode the camera will automatically take light readings and adjust the shutter speed so the scene is always lit correctly…ish.
I first set it off taking a photo every 24 seconds but realised that’s over 3000 frames in 24 hours! So I then set it to 1 frame every minute. I started the time lapse at 11pm and because it was shooting from a window I had to make sure I didn’t turn the lights on in my room to avoid reflections. Ideally it would be best to shoot it out side. I think next time I will shoot every 30 seconds that way the video will be a bit smoother.
Here’s some of the best stills.. I find it amazing how much the environment changes in a relatively short period of time!
Now that I have mastered the technique I can take the camera to some cool places.. One place I would like to take on is the top of our Uni building which is one of the highest buildings in Nottingham, views from up there would be incredible!
Stereoloop
May 7th
The other night I was walking home from town and noticed it was great conditions for taking some photos. So I went back out at 3am on my bike. It was so quite round town there’s something very strange about cities at this hour..
The most interesting photos I took were at the Market Square. I’ve been playing around with these stereographs for a few days now and came up with the following image last night. I’ve combined two stereographic projections on top of one another.
This gave me the idea of creating a looping animation. I had to create every single frame in the following video which was quite tedious but the result is fairly effective.
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For more pics head over to my Flickr
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.
