May/100
Green Website
After finishing Uni i though i'd have a dig around and clean up my laptop and i came across my very 1st website!!
I made this in A level and then added some extra bits in the 1st year of university. My Flash knowledge has improved (a bit) since then but its always good to look back and see where you started i think.
A mate stated that it's very green, meaning the color (he has no website knowledge) and i think that statement just suits the site perfectly, it is green in every aspect of the word, but just like the color its a good way of comparing the growth in my skills.
Since then i've only had a few projects involving Actionscript but look forward to the next big project which allows me to perfect my Actionscript skills.
May/100
Cannon Blast
This is the final video i submitted for my project, i classed it as more of a pre-vis or work in progress due to the minor errors it still has but im still quite proud of it considering i did it all myself, most happy about the new techniques and skills i picked up, and hopfully now unis nearly over i'll have more time to improve on them.
Thanks to all those who have helped me.
(music by jason hayes)
Apr/100
CS5!!!
arrgh Adobe are bringing out cs5 in a few days!!!
currently have LOTS of problems with cs3 and cs4 due to the fact i have a trail for cs4 at home and uni are using cs3.
and as im sure a lot of people know cs4 after effects isn't backwards compatible..perfect.
so this is about the 5th time i have had to rebuild this cs3 file just because i get lazy double click the file and it defaults
open with cs4 and so when i close it and open it with cs3 it tells me i need to update!!!!!!
but back to cs5! this looks coool. the cs4 photo shop preview was of content aware as well but i never really used it much, due to it
being a bit tricky i think, or it never poped into my head to use it but i think this looks well handy.
Apr/100
Star Wars style 3D
After procrastinating again i stumbled across this amazing video created by the University of Southern California
From what i can tell it projects a series of images and with the use of a spinning mirror it creates a parallax effect
aswell as a 3d image
Mar/100
Gaga and B again
Hmmm not sure what i think about this, loads of different film references and stuff but a bit tooo much?
(even for Gaga)
anyway i knew she didn't 
Feb/100
Cadbury Picnic chocolate bar: No picnic
"A Picnic chocolate bar is chewy, nutty and difficult to eat. GPY&R Melbourne challenged its audience to eat a Picnic in the space of a :30 commercial break. People filmed themselves using mobile phones, webcams and handycams and then created their own TV ads using the website, http://www.itsnopicnic.tv. In an Australian first, every single ad that went to air on television (200+) was unique, and created using the website" Ads of the world
Great idea to get people envolved!
I want them to hurry up with a British one.. thinking 5-6 Jaffa cakes in a minute would be a good shout 
Feb/100
World Builder
stunning work by Bandit vfx
created using a wide range of different media methods such a motion tracking and blue screening.
World Builder from BranitVFX on Vimeo.
if only modelling was this easy!
Feb/100
Creative Verbatim Site
This is a great little site which throws up random little monsters created by selecting Verbatim products.
Probably based on the transformer concept and you get to control 3 moves and battle other peoples monsters.
Only thing i did notice was that there didnt seem to be that much information on the actuall products. maybe it will be in V.2
it would be cool to be able to select different items and see different abilities and status, it would benefit the site if you could see the products details as well
Feb/100
IE 6 making the news again
Oh, another IE 6 headline.
A Downing Street petition is calling for the UK government to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
Jan/100
Got 99 Problems but Christ ain’t 1?
Came across this video the other day and found it pretty good.
Don't really belive in all the Jay-Z is a devil worshiper etc but the guy does have some skills, would like to see a rap response than a statement from Jay-Z. He seems to pick up on the Sasha Fierce thing which i've been saying for a while!
Jan/100
New Apple iPad
Apple announced today the new Apple iPad.
click on the image to go to the Apple web site to see its specs
... iPad sound familier as well:
any way its all good that they have this new giant iphone going on sale but im still not ditching nokia till they bring out the 5mp Camera iPhone!
Jan/102
Paper-StopMotion Animation
Just finished my first term of my final year and came across this little piece of animation!
could have done with finding this before i handed my final piece in. its such a simple concept but im sure it took hours to do.
the result is a nice and rough animation which i really like and would have wanted to experiment with it for my own work.
oh well
videogioco-loop experiment from donato sansone on Vimeo.
Donato Sanson's other works a bit... out there but its this piece which is pretty cool (more for the techique than the content)
Dec/090
LG 3D
Looks like LG will be the first to role out a 3D HD monitor!!!
I was playing with a 3D monitor a while back when i went to Eurogamer and i found the detail and quality mind blowing! (Batman Arkham Asylam)
So are 3D monitors the way forward? will we all be sitting around in 3D classes in 2 years time?
hard to say really but i am surprised there still isnt a way of creating the 3D montior with out the need for 3D glasses. (im sure theres a reason for this but im just not sure i want to sit there with my glasses and a head set.. might as well just get a helmet)
Nov/090
Esquire – Augmented Reality
From the looks of it Augmented reality will be getting main stream soon.
I first came across it in my placment year when KMP were playing around with a tester it looked really nice and soon there were companies using it here and there such as the baseball cards and a clothes tester
and now the magazine Esquire have put it into one of thier issues. It even has Robert Downey Jr running around doing different things in it.
im sure we will soon be seeing it everywhere.
Here's an old clip explaining what it is and what the major benfits of it could be: