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Smerkoil, a cg chair for fun
Created for fun using Lightwave 3D. All the dof in ray-traced and I’m planning on pitting it against Otoy’s Octane renderer, which should excel at these kind of renders.
Free textures for your project!
I’ve been collecting the odd texture now and again and putting them online under my site, but have now setup it’s own snazzy domain as well as adding a lot more images and a few more categories. Feel free to use any texture you want and link back if ya can. supertextures.co.uk.
New Formation Branding
Finished up a fresh new look for weareformation.com along with an updated website. Here’s a few little experiments building and playing with the logo… (more…)
24 Second Day
Music: “Quittin’ Time” by Patrick Lee (patrickleemusic.com)
I thought I’d try out one of Vimeo’s ‘Weekend Challenge‘. This one was one second clips, so I went for a walk around London having fun with a Sigma 8mm on full frame. I was really fun being part of a whole bunch of people creating videos for creativities sake. Also helped me find out about the Vimeo music store, pretty handy resource.
Working on the Weekend – more GH2 clips
Capturing some more video with the GH2 and Dwiftwoods IntraVenus hack while working on the weekend. Had fun with a few split screens and shooting on a very blue (2500k) white balance compensation. Music track from RoyaltyFreeKings.com.
Shots in the Snow
Trying out a new lens purchase, the Lumix 14-140mm. A great all purpose lens with an insane amount of reach. It was very easy to go out with in these kind of conditions without the need to switch lens and the pretty solid stabilisation saved a lot of post-processing.
B&W footage with the Panasonic LX7 + mini review
Trying out the Panasonic Lumix LX7. Love this little camera, the lens is pin sharp and I really like the ergonomics, I had the Sony RX100 for a bit and just didn’t get along with it as well as this camera. I like the wider FOV of the LX7 and the better (more…)
Unity3D experiments
Had some time to have a play with getting 3D content into a game engine, namely Unity3D. (more…)
Formation Begins
Our new company specialising in 3D and Visual Effects is now up and running! We like to work closely with agencies and production companies to help bring ideas to life across multiple platforms. We’ve moved into our new studio and are settling in by trying out some content creation for the Unity 3D game engine.
For more information visit: www.weareformation.com
Nokia Xpress Web App Builder Animation
Finished up work on the Nokia Xpress Web App Builder promo video. It was a fun mix character animation and a symbolic demonstration of the new app building service offered by Nokia. Everything was built animated and rendered in Lightwave 11 along with the Rhiggit Lite, which worked out pretty well. IK/FK blending and offset controller made animation a pleasure. We went for 12fps, which gave it a nice innocent, stop-motion feel as well as saving on render time :)