It’s happening Tuesday, April 3rd, 6PM @ Studio 1, ACMI (Federation Square, Melbourne).   It’s a free event but you do need to book here. come! say hello and ask me things!

i may not have been blogging terribly often the last few weeks but that’s because i was making this!  it’s for james annesley’s virtual proximity – the track’s called suburbia.  dig the album here.

the clip was made using a combination of stop motion animation and projection mapping and i put together a little video describing the process.  dig that below.

quake anyone?

i’ve started a new clip for Virtual Proximity – the sax/beats/pixels trio i VJ in.  the new clip uses a combination of stop motion animation and projection mapping.  so far the process has been something like this:

1.) animate thing
2.) project thing onto other thing
3.) capture thing 1 projected on to thing 2 one frame at a time and animate that

the track’s called suburbia and the clip has a big focus on power lines and houses (both large+real and small+paper).  i love the look of power lines and i’ve really been enjoying projecting onto them, making the ceramic insulating doohickies flicker and causing anxiety amongst my neighbors.

While you’re at it, check out all things Subsketch.  He makes tremendous stuff.  It is worthy of your attention.

The pretty colours are provided by a Novation Launchpad which is sequenced/animated in Ableton Live. This track and the rest of the album are still free. Go get it.

UPDATE:
I’ve uploaded the MIDI file used to run the clip.  If you have a Launchpad and want to see the clip in glorious real life download this MIDI file and play it in your DAW of choice with the Launchpad selected as your MIDI output.

you might have noticed footage from the cuba is japan clip.  it’s the first time it’s graced the intertrons and it may actually be completed sometime in the near future.  ooh, tantalising eh?

for something not so completely different… i’m playing in adelaide next saturday! poster:

this site is going to be revamped in preperation for the launch of the new album so prep those eyeballs for some amazement.

but for now… go watch this.

The Agnes Kain clip is finished!  I’m very happy with the end result. There are no effects in post, everything was shot in camera… which is probably obvious right up until the end. You can check out my previous posts to see how it was made from conception to birth.  Big thanks to Chanelle and Stef and ultra-mega-big thanks to Ryan for wearing ridiculous things,  standing in uncomfortable poses for extended periods of time and just being generally rad.

ok, i should get back to editing instead posting stuff and playing in the world of text (which i made this with).

a few little scenes left to shoot and edit and then that’s a wrap. it’s pretty exciting to see how the clip’s turning out, especially seeing how it’s evolved from the original idea. i’m animating the clip “in camera” with no effects in post. it moves a lot of the problems that usually need to be solved from inside a computer out into the real world where they’re easier to deal with. mainly because in the real world every single problem can be solved with gaff tape. ryan the birdman agrees.