A friend and longtime music producer Rhythm Scholar released a white-label remix of Depeche Mode’s ‘Never Let Me Down Again’ and I asked to make the video. I wanted to learn more about Davinci Resolve, it was edited and graded purely in that programme, and this made a good test project as previously I’ve created…
I’m currently learning Maxon Cinema 4D, and these are example VFX experiments in Cinema 4D Lite with Adobe After Effects CC using metallic textures and reflections, camera and Mograph animation. The textures were pretty much all created from scratch, especially the gold texture, and the planet started out as a green marble texture! I learned…
Here is a showreel I created last year – including work not featured here, created in Adobe Premiere. The audio a mashup I made called ‘Burn Yr Radio’ (Leftfield featuring John Lydon vs Queen vs Public Enemy) which not only was featured on Bootie’s website, has also been played before Duran Duran in the States.…
Using the cut-out and animate effect as used currently in motion comics I created this presentation for Artemis (agency: Libertine) taking their mostly static art and a few predone sequences and bringing it alive in After Affects, using Photoshop cutouts, synced music, focus pulling, tracking, motion fractal smoke, 3D layers, expressions and Ken Burns style…
I’ve been writing and producing my own music since 1987, originally via home keyboards and then my Amiga computer, but nowadays I use a range of tools, from Ableton Live, REAPER to hardware such as Korg Volcas, Teenage Engineering PO12 (like the track above), Korg Poly 800, Mackie VLZ mixer and Audio Technica 2020 condenser microphone, iPad…
This was a pitch for doing the online and offline promotion for Matilda the Musical for AKA. The first is an example page takeover with Matilda exerting her power to sabotage the page. It was built in After Effects – the challenge being how to animate water effectively, and keying in the video of the little girl, and the flying text animations
These were for a sci-fi convention screening of upcoming BBC Sci-Fi shows, to be included in between the features (Dr Who, Misfits, Survivors etc). It was a very loose brief apart from the static logo and the desired length, so I was free to create these from scratch, art direct, animate in After Effects, and…
This is a digital panel I did for La Soirée cabaret show while at AKA, I also did quite a lot of similar Flash work for them.
Sadly I don’t have much surviving from Shrek the Musical I did for AKA due to a disk crash, but I did do a lot of work on the site, animation, etc. Here is a pitch for a animated bus advert, which were pretty new, so exciting to work with new technology like with the…
A short but sweet animation for Nando’s – bringing a static graphic to life, which involved as with the Artemis a LOT of cutting in Photoshop since of course no layered file was available! Created in After Effects.
A friend of mine runs Subversive Comics, and he asked for some idents and a mockup of a motion comic (something I’d already done with Artemis) for a mobile app pitch – . Bearlands is one of their biggest comics about a bear fighting other zombie bears, but more recently their cyber epic Metal Made…
Sadly not a commission but something I made for my VJ gigs – I love Petula Clark’s ‘Cut Copy Me’ and the remix from Compuphonic didn’t have a video, so I made one. Using a variety of tools – from VDMX and an experimental glitch Quartz plugin captured live via Syphon – on my old…
I have been DJing since 1994, but recently branched out into VJing via VirtualDJ and VDMX, and was one of the resident VJs at Kleptonite at the Britannia in Hackney. I’d actually started off doing VJ work in 1993, doing visuals for a friend’s night at art school called Milk Laboratory (mildly NSFW) – they…
Here is an advert I did for XTP (the adverts projected on the tube platform in London) for Olivier Awards using Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, including the flowing ‘curtains’ which were generated by expressions. I also did an ambient video for the event itself, shown before and after the awards on large screens, as…
Despicable Me is an animated CGI movie and unusually they supplied special CGI motion assets with rendered alpha, effects and lighting layers. The idea was that the man comes on, zaps the banner, picks it up then text animated in and it goes onto the rest of the ad in Flash. Shown is the main…
This was a presentation for Phones4U and Samsung for small back room just before the release of the S3. I did the titling and animation in After Effects, and suggested some of the music (being a big fan of Nero at the time!). Like with the Catlin Graduate video I worked closely with the editor,…
A friend (ToTom) released a well-regard and very much blogged mashup album called Kanye of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age vs Kanye. It was featured in The Independent, AVClub, Consequence of Sound, and I think mentioned by some of QOTSA. I was taken by a bonus track ‘Novae Servae’ which takes Avon…
It’s unusual to have a job that is purely animation, but for the Catlin Graduate Film I provided all the subtle ambient animation and lower thirds in After Effects, and worked closely with the video editor on pacing and feel. I think it came out really well.
This was a video banner ad campaign for Framestore, built in After Effects and deployed into Doubleclick via Flash. A lot of text animation… P.S. There should be 4 adverts visible – if not and you’re running an adblocker (U-block, ABP etc) please disable it and refresh the page.
Friends recorded and released this cover of Pop Will Eat Itself’s Def Con One on 10″ vinyl (which got the thumbs up from various members of the band) and they asked me to make the official video, wanting a ‘schizophrenic’ feel. As the lyrics throws out so many cultural references I wanted to make a…
At McCann Erickson I did this ad for Nescafe – the coding of the interactive element, the transparency of the cups (which had to be just-so I remember! Hard to actually emulate true refraction/reflection in Flash…) and build/animation.
Not all my animation is Flash-based; I’ve been using After Effects for many years, and recently have created video panels for L’Oreal (Westfield) and most recently escalator panels and a Piccadily line panel for the film GI Joe. The poster art already existed but was static, so the brief was to bring it alive and…
When I was working at the BBC I was asked to create some stings – stings are the short little idents that appear between the programs. These were to appear between programs at the media buying conference in Brighton. This also included some sound design and composition. I did one set of generic stings at…
I first started taking photographs when I was 8 years old on a plastic GALT toy camera with 120 film, and as you can see I’ve moved on from that slightly! I now have a City and Guilds level 2 in Photography (Distinction x2 and Merit in all 3 modules) and am continuing my studies…
An introduction to one of my mashups, which is Sia’s Breathe Me vs Fleetwood Mac’s Rhiannon (it was downloaded more than 50,000 times on Soundcloud, and featured on Bootie’s website). I do the audio production for these mashups and mixes in a variety of programs, from Ableton Live 9, REAPER 5 and Adobe Audition, and…
These are two training videos for Butlins I created involving Premiere Pro editing, titling, sound production (the original footage was recorded in noisy environments so it was fun trying to at least equalise and increase level without too much noise) and an intro After Effects sequence involving TV effects, animation, low-res clips (hence I suggested…
This was a personal project with Eric Kleptones of The Kleptones eventually creating a ‘video mashup album’ or long video mix of his Uptime/Downtime albums. We’re collaborating with several other video mashup artists, but here are my additions to the project – initially released on Vimeo and Youtube, my videos been DJ’d around the world…
Animation and build of Flash Banners for BP (agency: small back room). Getting the wavy line smooth in the second one was tricky, since you have to ease and and out otherwise it looks like waggling/shaking, luckily I’d created items moving to a path in After Effects so I was aware of the problem.
A site I built from flat mockups in Flash for Wordsearch. I used Greensock tweens to help smooth the animation, brought in the image loading dynamically for speed and coded the concertina. Later on I was brought in to create it in JQuery, but you can see the original Flash site here.
Expandable and interactive Flash banners for Ignis while at Libertine. I enjoyed doing the wall of TV effect, although that was difficult due to file size constraints. These were implemented in Flashtalking. (P.S. There should be 3 adverts visible – these might be blocked by U-block or an Adblocker – not surprisingly because they are…
Video banners for this film while working at Feref; a mix of After Effects work, Flash animation and coding, with some Flashtalking integration. P.S. There should be 2 adverts visible – if not and you’re running an adblocker (U-block, ABP etc) please disable it and refresh the page. The bouncer ad includes several pieces of…
Animated and video banners for a pitch for Now 72 at Framestore – the flowers on the skyscraper are coded to appear and animate randomly and thus fit within the 30K limit.
A humorous expand/synched ad for Sony / McCann Erickson via Framestore for the game ‘Infamous’ with again as with Ask Jeeves I was providing the online expertise and Framestore were providing the assets and 3D. The idea was to expose the fact the game isn’t black and white, actions have consequences! It’s not possible to…
Creation and build of an online campaign for Ask Jeeves working with Framestore, the 3D specialists. I was brought in to consult, direct and create the online part of the whole campaign to bring back Jeeves – Framestore were creating a 3D version of Jeeves for TV and needed my expertise in adapting the 3D…
Flash animation and Flashtalking integration for this investment services company via Gravity – these are the standard Flash ads, I also created some rich video expandable ads on Flashtalking. (P.S. There should be 2 adverts visible – if not and you’re running an adblocker (U-block, ABP etc) please disable it and refresh the page.)
Here’s a mashup video I created for my track for the brilliant Santastic 4 christmas mashup compilation – a mix of Mariah Carey, Dillinja and The Nightmare Before Christmas, the video also has appearances from the film Human Traffic and Christmas Evil. It was made in After Effects, with extensive time remapping needed for Mariah’s…
Here are some examples of After Effects work I did at The Bank, including keying, particle generation, rotoscoping and light effects The first piece was shot against green screen – I keyed out the people using KeyLight, then matched the ‘virtual studio’ background to each shot. The second video – the brief was to create…
Design, build and FTP of a website for a Shoreditch property development for Bleach in PHP, CSS2 and HTML, using Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Created for an e-brochure CD for fleet purchasers; this presentation I created purely in Flash, design, animation (inc. the glow effects using filters), coded tweening and scrolling, and some video integration.
Simpsons banners for the launch of the series 11 DVD while at Feref – the spinning background I created and animated for this was also used on the TV commercial! Usually the TV commercial sets the style for the online elements, so it was nice that it went the other way for once, and have…
Flash banners created for the Christmas promotion of the musical Jersey Boys (agency: AKA) – this involved animation, some coding (the snow) and optimisation for a small size. (P.S. There should be 2 adverts visible – if not and you’re running an adblocker (U-block, ABP etc) please disable it and refresh the page.)
I edited this mashup video of the Radiohead and Kanye West videos for DJ Earworm’s excellent mashup, using Premiere Pro CS3 and a little bit of After Effects CS3 for titling…pretty good for 3 hours work! 😀 And the video has been written about and linked on Stereogum, NY Observer and MashupTown, as well as…
I also DJ (usually under the name Instamatic or DJNoNo) online and off, and create mashups and mixes, have been involved in doing so since 2003, and have DJ’d several times in San Francisco, London, Germany and Bristol. This is one of my mashups ‘Neon Sex People’ which I also created a video for, mashing…
I built and animated these Flash banners for Disney’s Prince Caspian to promote the game and the film for Feref, and designed some of the banner backgrounds such as the expandable background. I also designed the MSN skin which you can see below, purely in Photoshop, which like the banners was using the few poster…
Working at TEA I designed and built this Bebo takeover for the horror film ‘The Unborn’. I came up with the flowing concept, designed and developed the various assets from Flash design, animation and coding, background design and build of all textures in Photoshop from a single framegrab from the video, created the flashy scary…
Here are banners I built and integrated with video for the HellBoy II film (agency: Feref) – again working from an existing Photoshop design, but I had to (re)build and edit some of the backgrounds, and create and code the video controls, build the ‘bling’ effects, transitions etc. P.S. There should be 5 adverts visible…
Animation and build for these banners advertising the film ‘Deathrace’ for Feref working to an existing flat Photoshop mockup, the challenge was to attract the eye while keeping the filesize small. P.S. There should be 2 adverts visible – if not and you’re running an adblocker (U-block, ABP etc) please disable it and refresh the…
This is a Flash interactive campaign for AMD (agency: clickTAG) – which included a simple ‘shoot-em-up’ game and an exapandable banner. I did the build and coding then integration into the FlashTalking system. P.S. There should be 2 adverts visible – if not and you’re running an adblocker (U-block, ABP etc) please disable it and…
