this week
hi all my teaching this week will be different first year director session on wednesday will be as normal the rest of my time is up for grabs in 30minute slots that you…
Smash it..
Back by popular demand, a video tutorial using layers and blending in Photoshop to add dramatic damage to a surface texture i.e. wall or metal surface. ouch. Tutorial includes: hot-keys – all, copy, paste,…
Movies as Textures
I have added a tutorial video on how to add and control quicktime videos (.mov) onto a parametric plane in C4D. Tutorial includes: how to view the movie info using quicktime i.e. duration, frames per…
Its Jan Svankmajer!!!
This is a must see retrospective of stop-frame animator/ film director legend Jan Svankmajer. Films are showing at the Southbanks British Film Institute (BFI) from 29th May to 23 June 2007 (programme on…
yr 1 – Video Ass. 2 Groups
Groups & Concepts: Larry Yusuef Mo Brandon – Iraq War comment video to own song Mandeep Jamie Paul – Iron Maiden run to the hills, Tribute/ homage in BW Jo Mohsin Dinesh Colin –…
FFD animation
following on from the recent Free Form Deformation post & videos for C4D, I have added another tutorial video about animating FFDs. Folder 38 as before, bass-cone test file (cheers Jordan). Tutorial 4 contains: Activating…
‘Grindhouse’ London
The Prince Charles Cinema, off Leicester Square, has been showing off beat & art house cinema for over 20 years. With all-nighter cult film showings, fancy dress sing-a-longs and films costing as little as £1.00 on…
great tracking software
here’s some great tracking software – it’s worked well for me each time I have tried it Magnet http://www.ex-cinder.com/magnet/magnet.html it’s £25 and is really easy – highly recommended I have done a demo…
john maeda – mySpace
if you don’t know who john maeda is now is the time to find out http://www.maedastudio.com http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/ http://lawsofsimplicity.com/ http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/maeda.html if you like the sort of generative stuff jason is dabbling with he is…
podcast
I am edging towards delivering all videos via podcast – the advantage is that you will automatically be notified of new videos once you have subscribed – this will be done through iTunes…
FFD’s in C4D
In folder 38 there are now tutorial movies on using FFD’s – a Free Form Deformation object in C4D to model a parametric cube into the pages of an old looking open book….
more on converting youtube to quicktime
tube tv a very easy to use and free (but why not make a donation?) utility to take you tube movies and convert them to .m4v files ( you can then open and…
quicktime functionality
just playing about here and looking at the perennial problem of video codecs in quicktime (and beyond) how do you rip you tube video to disk etc? well I recommend Perian – a…
absolute nonsense