Sadly a dear friend of mine and many others died from cancer earlier this month Colin Fryer. as a tribute to his amasing life, my recent motion graphics film is dedicated to him.(will be uploaded later this week)
But that said many new amazing things have come my way.
This Friday I will be playing my first solo gig at Fat Cat in Hanley. This night will be an amazing night to start the Major run to Christmas and eventually into the new year.
But wait it doesn’t stop there I start the new year with an amazing start by going down to london and visiting the amazing post production house known as envy.
All amasing things to come.

Thanks for Reading

http://www.vimeo.com/1920647
When I seen the tutorial where we would make a crude Alien Space Ship orbit around the earth. The Idea came to mind, how would I make the earth spin?
I done some searching and CreativeCow and VideoCopilot had an answer.

The earth consists of two layers, 1 flat texture that is converted into a sphere, and a atmosphere texture with an alpha channel on it to lay and move on top of the earth looping.
When rotated, the earth will look like its spinning and there are clouds moving too.

The space mist is a solid layer with fractal noise added to it, the same effect that creates the starts, obviously with different settings.

As for the zoom in, Google Maps helped me, I found a location on google maps that had the best resolution images. I screen printed each increment, taking a screen print every zoom step out.

An wiggle expression was used to make the zoom shake while zooming in at high velocity.

Clouds are solid white layers with again fractal noise added to them to break the solid up a lot to make nice white fluffy clouds.

I imported each screen print (16 in total) into After Effects and aligned them up together to make them appear endless. I had to parent the layers together to keep the scales of previous aligned images in place.

The car though the town, I sourced an above image of a car and cropped it turning everything but the car transparent in Photoshop. I firstly animated the car using motion tracking, later I refined the animation using ease to ease.

This is the first edit and I intend to refine the end car animation.

http://www.vimeo.com/1868011
For the last few weeks I have been experimenting with Adobe After Effects as part of a University module. Adobe After Effects is the main reason why I came to university. I first started using After Effects while in College in 2007, I was just messing about with the plugin Trapcode Particular to try recreate the Apple Nano Advert when they introduced colours. I had fun using it, except a 30 second animation took hours to render.
Now with a faster computer and the latest version of After Effects, and better knowledge of compression, I can now concentrate on learning the application and being creative with it.
Digressed a little there, but anyways, the main reason for this post is to show some of my examples of video work I have been working on over the last few weeks, additional I have been trying to prepare a quick show reel for a when ENVY come to our university and do a presentation, I’m hoping to hand them a show reel of my work and maybe, just maybe get recognised.

It’s been again a little while since a blog entry. Now having my iPhone synced with my blog account I now hope I should blog some more. Well since my las post I’ve become jobless single and stressful. If you know me personly you will know the reasons. For those who don’t, I suggest you be careful with employments that are not doing well.

That all aside I’ve been having a great time let alone having no money at all
My friends have been funding me for a few days and I thank the greatly. You know who you are. The university freshers weekend has not been too bad either some new frinds and great new happenings.

Why the title “DJ vs Zanzibar”? Well tonight was a random night like always I had a little of my own money and wanted to treat my mates out and Zanzibar was doing a £6.99 entry free bar, seems great. But some of my mates went to house party and tom fell asleep haha so me and jake had word that the lounge was having DJ trials. My first plan was to play a small set and go Zanzibar it ended up us staying most of the night having a great time and winning ourselfs resedency every Tuesday. Quality times, never knew drum and bass would get me a resendecy and a box of beer mint

To end the night. Bacon and egg butty and blog yay

But wait there’s a little more I’m gioing to be live in GK radio (Wednesday) from 20:00 to 22:00. And again I cab play all I like
Musicly it’s going great for me