Guardian Angel

I am really sorry that I haven't posted in such a long time. You would think that now im studying film making at TAFE I would have lots more to post about... and you would be right. Since my last blog post I have released 6 shorts... oh dear... Well I guess I better start at the beginning.

First up we have my loop for Aprils Loopdeloop. The months theme was "Rock" so naturally I decided to make something about tan asteroid colliding with the earth and wiping out the Dinosaurs. The idea started out rather differently, I originally wanted to make it more of a comedy, but after watching a few documentaries on the meteor crash I felt sad... This was easily the biggest loop I have made so far this year scale wise. In fact, I dare say due to other commitments it will be the only loop I make on a large scale this year. I really need to start planning smaller loops that take less time to make... I called this one "The Last Supper" since all the Dinosaurs are eating just before they die.



Then we have Mays Loopdeloop entry. This time the months theme was "one" to celebrate Loopdeloops first birthday. I pretty much new exactly what I wanted to do from the beginning and this was one of the few times that my idea didn't change at all through the creative process. This was also the first time in quite a while that I used this particular rendering style. I am rather happy with the end result.



The theme for this months Loopdeloop is "Play" so I hope I can bang that one out in a single sitting. Im planning on going back to the Nimbin character models, but why im going back to them is a story for another time.

OH! And speaking of Nimbin, I also released a trailer for Gerkinman Returns! Im on holidays from TAFE for all of July so I HOPE to finish the film during that time.



In non animation news, I finally got around to finishing a video using all footage from The Melbourne Aquarium. It was really little more then an experiment in editing using FCPX. Happy with how most of it came up, really made me realise how badly I need a better camera tho.



On the TAFE from I have a couple of projects I have released. The first was an editing exercise using FCP7. It was kind of strange going back to 7 after using Premier and FCPX for so long, it did feel a little backwards and things didn't necessarily work the way I thought they would. For the exercise we had to cut a trailer to one of three public domain movies, I chose Plan 9 From Outer Space. Its an interestingly terrible film.



And finally, I have 3 short films which were shot in sequence by me, and some mates from TAFE. Namely Jax Sunny Pappas and Jayde Taylor. Jayde shot the first sequence which was called "Peel Me", it also had me acting in it... badly I might ad. Jax shot the second one which was called "The Adventures of the Travelling Old Shoe". I also starred me along with Jayde. The final part was shot by me and I titled it "Glider". It also has Jayde and a brief appearance by Jax's feet. The point of the exercise was to get us to use a tape based camera and make a 1 minute short film about an object being transferred from one place to another with all in camera editing. Editing in camera requires a lot of rewinding and frustration. Of course this version was done after the assignment was finished and was edited in Premier.



Damn this is a big post. Im going to try to stop this size post from happening again...

Hopefully I will remember to blog again next week with the release of my next loop.

Skyrim Atmospheres

Wow, im sorry, 2 weeks without an update, I was going to update last Friday but ended up having a massive day freelancing from home and then seeing Happy Feet 2...

ANYWAY, It has been a big couple of weeks, let me tell you about them.

Since this is a creative blog, ill only be talking about the creative stuff, that said, I spent a week up on the Northern Rivers, back on my home turf some might say. While I was there I took quite a lot of time lapse and surf footage. I shot quite a lot of time lapse footage at my parents home over the span of two days and spent another full day at Lennox Head filming, I was even lucky enough to catch a storm going by in the distance. The surf footage I took was also from Lennox Head, and while I wasn't doing anything too dangerous most of the time aside from wearing a silly hat...

But when I wasn't standing safely up on nice green grass I was in stupid places like this hoping that a big wave wouldn't come along and bowl me over...

To give you an idea how big that wave was in this photo, im standing on top of a storm water drain that came up at least a meter and a half out of the water. The end result tho, I like to think was worth it, I put together a lot of the footage I took to the song Il Fiore by Trash80.


But thats not all I have done, while I was away I also managed to finish tweaking all 8 of the original 2005 series of Bricks are Fun. So far I have been uploading one a day, and as of today I have 4 more to go.  Im happier with some more then others, but obviously since some are funnier then others thats to be expected.




Now that these are finished and out of the way I can get back to focusing on Gerkinman Returns and this months loop.

And thats pretty much it for this week, I leave you now with the track Skyrim Atmospheres which is what im currently listening too, and is 42 minutes of peaceful ambience. For those who have been wondering as well, the title of my blog is always whatever song is playing on my playlist at the time. True story.


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