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Slash shreds

2008-04-12T12:07:00.002+12:00

Awesome stuff

Old but great ;)

2008-04-11T08:59:00.000+12:00

Quicktime gamma issues

2008-04-09T10:51:00.005+12:00

Ok, so I think I've finally sorted the horrible washing out of h.264 Quicktimes - I had read that to fix it you:

Go to the movie's properties in Quicktime Pro, go to the Visual Settings tab of the video track, change the Transparency to 'Blend', set the slider to 100%, switch the Transparency back to Straight Alpha, scrub the timeline and save the QT.

It didn't work.

Now what I have found certainly does work is export the Quicktime as a 100% Motion-JPEG encoded movie, and then from Quicktime Pro export that as h.264. This looks pretty much just like the original (gamma-wise).

Ninja Parade

2007-10-31T10:58:00.000+13:00

Sense.

2007-07-21T10:54:00.001+12:00

Another Ratatouille test

2007-07-09T09:27:00.000+12:00

I forgot to post this one a while ago...

Putting things in perspective

2007-07-04T22:18:00.000+12:00

Take that, Earth!

New (probably old) Emile animation test

2007-06-26T21:56:00.000+12:00

What the hell's a theremin?

2007-06-26T09:57:00.000+12:00

I had never heard of a theremin until now...

video found, as with all the good stuff, at swench.

The way of the future

2007-06-24T17:44:00.000+12:00

Looks like they're doing some impressive stuff at CalArts. Computers are the way of the future. Awesome.

Microsoft Surface Parody

2007-06-21T14:15:00.000+12:00

If you've seen the original you'll find this pretty funny ;)

Hand shadows

2007-06-21T14:12:00.000+12:00

This is pretty neat...

Frickin' laser beams

2007-06-21T14:11:00.000+12:00

Millenium Falcon stop-frame

2007-06-21T14:06:00.000+12:00

Possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever seen, but also one of the coolest!

The aliens are coming...

2007-06-21T09:35:00.000+12:00

More cool electricity experiments at Tesla Downunder

Football vs Rabbit

2007-06-18T16:52:00.000+12:00

Really nice use of CG to resemble stopframe animation. According to the guys that made it, the rig is actually surprisingly simple...

Junky shadows

2007-06-16T12:50:00.001+12:00

[photo taken from linked page]

Take piles of junk - cast a light on them - hey presto!

http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/freeze-frame-screen-the-shadow-hot-heads-under-silent-wigs/

The Pixar Zoetrope

2007-06-04T13:27:00.001+12:00

Wahoo! I fell in love with this at the Pixar exhibition in London! Now I don't have to explain it (although even these pics & movies still don't do it true justice - it was just incredible)

The Pixar Zoetrope

via VNOG Blog by Victor Navone on Jul 12, 2006

Looking through my files I stumbled upon this movie of the 3D Zoetrope from Pixar's exhibition at the NYC MoMA earlier this year, and I realized that it probably hasn't been posted anywhere. So here it is! It's a 4.2 MB mp4 movie, and of course it doesn't approximate in the least how cool this contraption looks in person. This is real 3D animation. There's plenty more information on the Zoetrope and the rest of the exhibit (which I believe is in London now) at the Luxo Blog.

You can see more of my personal photos from the exhibit here.

Penlight animations

2006-08-03T03:57:00.000+12:00

http://tochka.jp/pikapika/2006/06/report_pikapika_in_kitijoji.html

Heat Vision and Jack!

2006-03-27T01:28:00.000+12:00

This has to be the most awesome (I use that word too much, I know) tv show that there could ever be… I present to you:
Heat Vision and Jack
Here’s the blurb from YouTube:

“The 30 minute pilot is about an astronaut (played by Jack Black) with a medical secret who is on the run from the evil Ron Silver and the rest of NASA, with the help of a talking motorcycle called Heat Vision (voiced by Owen Wilson).”

Mixing the best elements of every great 80s tv show is a formula for immense success. More please.

Planet Earth

2006-03-06T22:39:00.000+13:00

Just one word: Ohmygodthatwasabsolutelyincredible. It’s a new wildlife series by the BBC which has the most amazing photography I’ve ever witnessed. Ever seen a giant great white shark leap completely out of the water with a seal in its mouth shot at what appears to be 5000fps? I have to admit I don’t see that sort of stuff all that often. I guess it helps to have a helicopter and an HD camera that can shoot up to 1.5 kilometres away.

This is going to be great to have on HD-DVD / DVD / Betamax to view with the future grandkids to show them what the planet was like before the subsequent melting / flooding / overheating / <insert impending global catastrophe here>…

Awesome.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/

3D optical illusion rooms

2006-03-04T09:37:00.000+13:00

This is exactly how I’m painting my house: 3D painted optical illusion rooms

Amazing architecture

2006-02-21T00:24:00.000+13:00

You might not have seen many of these buildings before: http://www.uniquedaily.com/articles/TMULBOOEE.html

Go on, touch the screen...

2006-02-16T02:19:00.000+13:00

I want one of these. Really badly. Don't actually know what I'd use it for, but I don't care. I WANT ONE.

Giant Steps

2006-02-11T02:41:00.000+13:00

John Coltrane + cool 3d flash = Giant Steps.