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Stereoloop

Rob — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:11:04 +0000

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

Rob — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:30:33 +0000

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.

Mouse Path

Rob — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:30:47 +0000

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