Here are a series of animations I’ve created on behalf of Jersey Telecom for Jersey Live 2010 – jersey’s biggest music festival. They will be running on the big screens either side of the main stage on a loop (along with other sponsors adverts) and in the Jersey Telecom Re-charge arena when the live video from the stage isn’t being played.
You can view the other three after the jump.
Jim and I were asked last minute to document the 2010 Grassroots Festival for the organisers so they would have something to show to potential sponsors next year, and seeing as Matt was already the official festival photographer, it made sense for us to jump on board. It was actually after they saw this video that Jim did on one of Matt’s photoshoot’s that they really wanted our take on things.
It was a great day in the end and the vibe of the festival could really be felt by all the audience and artists alike. The whole basis is that of an eco-festival so you didn’t really get the usual festival “trash everywhere” ground at the end of the day. We shot on a Sony Z5 and on a GOPRO HD for those great in-the-crowd fisheye shots. As soon as it’s finished i’ll post a link here, but until then, Video is now above instead of the old image, also please check out Matt’s pictures from the day here.
We at The Observatory recently went live with the rebranded Jersey Arts Trust, and I built their new website (as with most of mine, built on wordpress!). We recommended that they change from www.jerseyartstrust.com to the easier to remember ‘arts.je’ – which so far has been well received.
Based upon wanting have a website that can be easily updated for in and out of the office, and incorporating social media channels, the new site draws focus to the varied disciplines, project and events they fund and get behind. For local artists in any medium, having the Jersey Arts Trust available to us offers amazing possibilities and I’d recommend any Jersey-person interested to have a look at the grants pages, and for anyone else just to have a peek at the different arts coming out of the island.
Let me know what you think…
This website was developed for a one-off night to be held at Jersey Potteries (Jersey, Channel Islands) that features Vula (the voice of Basement Jaxx) and is sponsored by Veuve Cliquot and supported by Mark Howe and Gallery Magazine.
It was designed & developed pretty quickly and relies heavily on the awesome 3D renders created by my buddy at The Observatory, Ollie Harris.
I’ve recently been involved in a website/presentation/video project for the great folks over at Le Masurier Ltd (Jersey) for a proposed development at the north end of St.Helier, Jersey. The site is now live and along with a full press release and social media strategy, this should draw a lot of attention so fingers crossed that it’s well received! Please go to lmbathstreet.je to check it out for yourself, and if you’re a Jersey resident, search for lmbathstreet on facebook to join the group.
I’ve just had an Honourable mention from Nick Campbell over at GreyScaleGorilla.com for my Countdown vid (displayed on the previous post). Thanks to all of your comments via Vimeo and cheers to Nick for starting the 5 second project idea, as well as to Jim for egging me on to enter!
View the article here
This is my effort for Nick Campbell’s 5 second project “Countdown”.
The basic premise for 5 second projects are that you create an animated piece lasting 5 seconds around a central theme and upload them to let everyone else see your work. It drives you to quickly create something that’s throw-away but still requires you to think about a concept and finish it through to the end result – I highly recommend if you’re working the field of animation, or just looking to start, get involved in this.
Took about an hour from start to end, working in Photoshop to deal with the elements (old screenshots and sprites) and animated in After Effects. Audio was boshed together in Premiere from some old 8bit game samples I had. Finally rendered in H264 QT using Adobe Media Encoder.
If you like the clip, please click “Like” on the video!
Here’s a quick look at my latest work – it’s a render in C4D using an illustration by Paul at The Observatory.
Here’s a quite effects and equipment test I did alongside Andy and the crew from Fortress Island Films.
Muzzle flashes/cartridges and comped-in explosion were my responsibilities but not colouration I hasten to add – this definately needs some work but for a few days playing around, it looks alight. Oh and the ident was quickly made for FIF as well…
Stay posted for the final piece when it comes up online.
When it comes to Web Startups in this day and age, it seems we’ve all been approached by someone who ‘has this amazing idea that’s going to revolutionize the internet’ but turns out to just want to rip off youtube, facebook, twitter, etc.
A lot of the time someone will want to develop an idea that has had all the large details mapped out but none of the small details. Take a leaf out of 37signals book (literally) – it’s better to make half a product than a half-assed product.
