Cinema 81

Devilish Mask

2007-12-22T11:37:00.001+00:00

Devilish mask I modeled strongly inspired by a similar one I found hiding in my house.

Deep in the Sidobre

2007-12-22T11:07:00.000+00:00

Hidden away in the Sidobre is a comfortable white house owned by some friends of ours.
Here's shot I got of it. The choice of colours were inspired by the next picture.

This nice effect is from psdtuts.com

Radar in After Effects

2007-11-17T12:14:00.001+00:00

Hey! This is my first video on this blog created with After Effects. It's a radar which detects a sort of aircraft flying past. I'm still learning to use After Effects, and so I followed a brilliant tutorial on maltaannon.com

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Freamland variation

2007-11-12T18:48:00.000+00:00

Just a little variation from the previous image:

Freamland

2007-10-21T14:54:00.000+01:00

Right... I've finally decided it's time to update my blog.
I've got used to my new school, with typical, LONG, French school days. I've also got used to dragging a heavy schoolbag around, some days weighing over 10 kilos.

In between homework and all that jazz, I've recreated my sunglasses on screen. They were originally called Dreamland, but because of a typo, they're now called Freamland, and the name's stuck :)

Designer Château

2007-08-20T10:42:00.001+01:00

Last weekend while we were staying in the Lot, we were invited for drinks and a swim at the "Designer Château". It's owned by an architect and an interior designer who have done an amazing restoration job.

This is a photo from the side capturing the château and the infinity pool.

A close up of the infinity pool. On the left side the water flows over the edge creating a small waterfall.

Looking out over the edge, there is a wonderful view of the countryside

Here's the château seen in the pool reflection

And a front view of the château

Albi - St Cécile

2007-08-17T17:56:00.001+01:00

These are a couple of photos I took in Albi, the main city of the Tarn. It's about an hour's drive from Castres, where I live.
Le Pont vieux.

This is what you see from Le Pont Vieux (the old bridge)

Here's the Albi Cathedrale: St Cécile

A self portrait of the Painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. There's a whole museum about him and his paintings next to the cathedrale.

The cathedrale seen from a different point of view.

And the entrance to the cathedrale:

Beautiful animation - Konzerthaus Dortmund

2007-08-17T10:08:00.000+01:00

Bittbox

2007-08-04T17:20:00.000+01:00

bittbox.com - This site has some brilliant Illustrator tutorials, brushes and vector sets. Keep up the good work.
Anyway, here's some pictures I did with Illustrator:

(here's the tutorial)

Here's a poster... selling CD's (it's in french because the concert was in France)

And finally, a background made using brushes in photoshop this time.

Castres + Sidobre

2007-08-03T15:00:00.000+01:00

Castres, le Sidobre and a lake in La Montagne Noire.

This is the view from le Saut de la Truite

Same place but further down the mountain

Simon

Mountain Lake
this is Herne

And a few of Castres

Refraction

2007-07-21T21:19:00.001+01:00

Three quick photos:

Tour de France in Castres

2007-07-20T18:48:00.000+01:00

Stage 12 of the Tour de France, Montpellier to Castres.
Making his second win so far, Tom Boonen was first to cross the finish line. Anyway, here's some photos I took.

The first helicopters had flown into sight. Soon after, 4 more flew into view. The excitement was starting to build. After 3/4 of an hour waiting, the cyclists were going to arrive.

Yeah...well, the helicopters were early. I don't suppose it really mattered to these guys, who probably arrived long before us. They even brought their own picnic table^^.
They didn't get better places than us anyway.

After all the sponsors had gone past, the police rolled by, warning everyone to stand back.

After what seemed like hours of waiting, they finally shot past. All that waiting for about 20 seconds of action. It was worth it though.

We were on live TV ^^ Smile!

Spare wheels!

Everyone had raced past. We thought we had seen everybody. Then in the distance, we saw this guy approaching, with his own mini police force.

But he wasn't the last. Another group shortly arrived (and their mini police force).

And last of all, this group came waltzing by. They weren't exactly bothered about going fast.
The two at the front were having a nice chat^^

Spare bikes anyone?

Trembling rocks

2007-07-13T09:11:00.000+01:00

This house has been in the Du Gres family for 500 years now. Located right in the middle of the Sidobre, their garden is full of huge granite boulders. They even have some trembling rocks. Quite literally. Not far from this house, there's another trembling rock, it's quite a sight when an old granny suddenly comes out of her farm house, then starts moving a huge boulder weighing a couple of hundred tonnes. Afterwards, she walks around holding out her little basket, until everyone has put some money in.

Here's a snapshot of their back garden (about 300 hectares), although I'm not sure if these rocks tremble.

This is a typical French sausage, called a saucisse de Toulouse. It's now on the barbecue, but it took a bit of struggling to get up all wound up.

After it had been cooked:

Nice shoes!

My brother, my sister, my dad and me on yet another granite boulder

I just wondered why they decided to build a door there of all places. Normally doors are on the ground floor, that way there's no drop. ^^

Their house:

This is the same photo as the one a few before, but guess what's missing.

Herne having a siesta after having eaten a big lunch. He even sleeps with his football ^^

A couple of farm houses somewhere in their garden.

2 ferrets:

Down to business

2007-07-10T17:04:00.000+01:00

Nothing wrong with this card? Well , look closely - all the information is wrong! Fax doesn't even exist anymore. So we needed to print a new one. So after touching it up on photoshop (otherwise it would have been a bad quality, crooked image which looks like it's been scanned on to the card^^), and rewriting the address, we set out to find a website to print our new card. Last time we went to the printing shop in town, they were rubbish! When you don't know how to work the software used in the shop, you're not going to get very far...

Anyway, the site we found was VistaPrint. A site that actually delivered to France... Very useful. Unfortunately their cards aren't the same dimensions as our original (our dimensions were better) and there's all this crap about bleed lines, safe area, trim lines etc. to avoid the design having a white border or half of the design cut off. After fiddling around with the text position, and changing the dimensions, we got a non-stretched design which seemed to fit into the safe area, trim lines, etc..

Enough talking, here's what we ended up with. It doesn't actually look that different after all that effort I put into it.

We got the cards now, and thankfully we're not missing half the design. Phew...
Mind you, on the screen, it shows a light green and the actual card is a dark green. Anyone got an explanation?

Photoshop CS3

2007-07-07T13:05:00.000+01:00

I've been using the trial version of Photoshop CS3 Extended for 2 days now- only 28 days left, time's running out fast ^^ - and, well... it's brilliant! It seems you can do just about everthing, only problem is that it's quite expensive.

The best site I've found so far for tutorials is Planet Photoshop. Most of what I've done so far has been inspired from the video tutorials (by Corey Barker).

This was all about cutting out hair, then placing it on another background. It wasn't actually as hard as I thought it was going to be, as long as it's photoshop that does it. I can't imagine doing it manually. ^^

And last but not least this is the Barcelona cathedral, pushing out of its boundaries.

Herne Illustrated

2007-07-05T14:54:00.000+01:00

If I had to choose a photo to best represent Herne, it would have be a football. Here's a link to his blog: Footy Mad
I drew this photo in Adobe Illustrator.
Here another photo I made in Illustrator:
(try looking at it from far away)

Dive in!

2007-06-28T14:59:00.001+01:00

Get out your swimming stuff and jump in the pool! After a cold winter (and a cold spring as well), the water is finally hot enough to swim in without freezing.

Round 2

2007-06-24T10:05:00.000+01:00

This is another competition I did with Tom. This time, the goal was to make a computer. So, what do you think? Which one is better?
En Français: Lequel est le meilleur ordi à ton avis?

Triple shot

2007-06-23T18:37:00.001+01:00

Three different shots of my computer:

Best of the Best of the Best

2007-06-22T21:01:00.000+01:00

Which photo do you think is the best? This is the result of a competition I did with a friend. The aim was to make the best lamp.

En français: Laquelle est la meilleure à ton avis? Voilà le résultat d'un competition que j'ai fait avec un ami où il fallait faire la meilleure lampe.

Smile!

2007-06-21T21:30:00.000+01:00

Here are some pictures from the Film Competition:

This is the river Agout which flows right past the cinema

Halim and Clement

Hugo, Pauline and Solenn

Smile!

This is Matthieu

Noria, Morea, Rizlaine, Matthieu,
Geoffroy, Halim and Adrien

Cinemovida

2007-06-21T21:10:00.000+01:00

Today was the last day of school, and there also just happened to be a cinema contest going on - so we had a fantastic last day watching films, and then rating them. School can't get much better!

The brand new cinema:

The seven short films we went to see were:

Fleur de fée
Un secret derrière la porte
Fils de justicier
Heavy pockets
Le secret de Cassandre
Bawke
Bonne nuit Malik

The three I voted for were:

Le secret de Cassandre (meilleur film)
Bawke (meilleur scenario)
Un secret derrière la porte (meilleur réalisation)

As you might have noticed these are all french films.

Got a cramp?

2007-06-18T11:20:00.000+01:00

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The game goes on

2007-06-11T19:35:00.000+01:00

I've now made two new pieces: the knight and the queen.

Tom, la reine c'est fait de la même façon que le pion.

Summer pics

2007-06-08T21:22:00.001+01:00

As I already had some winter pictures, I thought I would put up some summer pics as well: