Video and Animation

Spoof iPod / Napoleon Dynamite advert

At the end of February I gave a sneak preview to a work in progress on a spoof advert - a mash-up of the dance scene in Napoleon Dynamite with the iPod nano ‘colours’ advert.

I’m pleased to report that I have finished adding the colour swooshes - a process that took me well over 20 [...]

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The dirty mind of an illustrator

A couple of weeks ago my attention was drawn to an excellent animation on David Airey’s blog, who in turn had discovered it on Michael Surtee’s DesignNotes.

Both David and Michael praised Patty as an excellent example of illustration, which it is as well as being being a simply stunning animation. Slightly saucy, but not naughty, [...]

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WIP: Napoleon Dynamite iPod advert

I’ve been getting my teeth stuck into Adobe Premiere today, with my latest brief - to produce a spoof film trailer or advertisement. I’m probably going to do a couple of various on this brief - one a more serious advertisement for my iPod flex, with another, more tongue-in-cheek, spoof of the iPod nano ‘colours’ [...]

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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Here’s a clip from YouTube that has been doing the rounds over the last week or so. I originally saw it on one of my favourite blogs, LifeClever, so I wont take any of credit for finding it. However, I am really impressed with this and it’s certainly worthy of a share.

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Conceptual iPod with roll-out screen

I’ve just installed the very impressive FLV Embed plugin, for embedding, you guessed it, FLV movies. Which are Flash movies, in case you were wondering. To show off the plugin I am posting a video of a conceptual iPod I designed using Autodesk 3ds Max.

The brief simply tasked me with designing a new range of [...]

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