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From Below

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:29:06 +0000

Here’s another little short abstract film using matchmoving. I recently purchased PFHoe pro as it was developed from the software i used to use ‘Icarus’ and has a really simply workflow, which doesn’t need relearning after not using it for a while. I do however believe that with it’s bugs and complexity to use Icarus will have more control in ‘bad footage’ situations, alot of the time PFHoe pro needs near perfect shots and i had to throw alot of shots away as they didn’t track well.

I probably prefer .blok to this one, but this one was fun to make, and took less time. Also during making this i stumbled across another video idea that i can’t wait to finish, although it doesn’t really reflect it i this video, i think i’m really improving on my 3d skills and the next video i upload should be entirely 3d made.

Temporary Showreel

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:24:45 +0000

Here’s a temporary showreel i put together in Premiere Pro, just a simple compilation of some of the past work i’ve done for my presentation at my universities’ end of year show. I dislike the idea of putting a showreel together because i always think that the video i create after will be something i like and would have wanted it present, so have been putting it off for a while and still even only label this one with ‘temporary’

The audio choice may seem strange for a showreel but i found it hard finding something that could fit both the darker and lighter side of my videos without seeming too out of place. So i went with Spylacopa’s ‘Together We Become Together’ which i think work’s out well.

So i’ve pretty much finished uni now, it’s kind of scary but am kind of excited to begin some projects i’ve been wanting to do for a while, one of which is well underway, the website is already looking good for it, all i’m gonna say is it’s gonna be a two part project with both an audio side and a video side to it and it’ll be a bit more literal than some of my past videos and music.

I’m also well into the development of the new design of this site (i know it hasn’t been long since the last) i’ve decided to ditch to k2 frame-work and start from scratch and create something that’s really form fitted for what i want to do here. This time around there’s going to be both a blog for written posts and video posts (the video posts will be quite similar to how they’re set up now) it’ll all be based on the one wordpress install but there will be multiple feeds if you only want to subscribe to the videos, written and of course both. If you care to see a screenshot of what it’ll looking like live online right now click here. I’m hoping to get it live soon, but having some troubles with cross browser compatibility, i’m releasing this screen shot now as the design is gonna be a little different when it’s done but the frame work layout etc.. should stay the same, more soon!

The Thing

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:23:50 +0000

Title Sequence for the John Carpenter movie. Still not entirely sure what i think about this video, i’ve worked harder on it that anything else i’ve ever done, and i do know that it’s the best thing that i’ve done so far, but i spent so long in and out of love with the project, i can’t really look at it much anymore.

There’s two versions, this is the shorter of the two, this ones a bit more cleaner-cut than the other, and there’s a section in the other video that seems a bit out of place (i’ll have to get a second opinion).

I wanted to encapsulate a very visceral and foreboding image. So i took the tactile approach of renting a HDV camera and shooting some close-ups of various organic matter, taking many photographs of slimy textures to incorporate together into the short.

I personally think the still frames below are stronger than the video itself, would really love to hear your thoughts on it, since only three people including myself have seen the final prior to posting now.

Thanks to Rupert, for suggesting doing ‘The Thing’ as this project, and also Chris my tutor for really helping me out with ideas and motivating me, because i got tired with working on it alot.

Music by me.

Can’t wait to make something better.

Link to download.

Two Point Zero!

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:56:50 +0000

Well it’s been a long time in the waiting (for me at least), but here is the newly redesigned site. I was hoping to launch it along with my latest uni project, but opted into making this silly little teaser for the site instead because i want to spend more time on that project over the next month or so (it’s driving me crazy).

Anyway, this site isn’t in it’s final stage of the design as i have a few more things i want to incorporate whenever i have chance, including a toolbar under the video players with digg, del.icio.us, reddit etc… buttons. Some people may know that i was planning on releasing this as a free videoblog theme once it was finished, i think that modding K2 isn’t the best way for me to do that, i’m instead going to start from a different open source theme which is less bloated with options and unused code (it will have some similar aspects as this one but will be a brand new theme in it’s own right), i will also post a screencast which will show you how simple it is to post a video with this new theme platform! If you have any feature requests comment them below, contact me, or add me to skype: kmogvideo.

Also i would like to thank Chris Coyier for his help with the featured content slider, not only did he create it, but he helped me customize it to dynamically pull my ‘featured’ posts.

I have a quite ambitious year planned ahead regarding these online projects so stay tuned for more.

Check out this article i wrote for Moovy.ca on my workflow!

p.s. some of the minor posts are temporarily disabled.

CSS-Tricks Intro Movie

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:15:24 +0000

Motion Graphics intro movie created for the CSS-Tricks.com screencasts (look out for it in future episodes). Read more about this video at the posting at my new portfolio website: KrystianMORGAN.com [PL]. Music by me.

Also check out the new comment system here, and install it yourself on your blogs!

p.s. Quicktime is better at the moment

.blok

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:38:04 +0000

This little short was contrived whilst i was teaching myself matchmoving. I think i made every mistake that was possible to make whilst creating this, but at least i have the process dialed into my brain now. The softwares i used to make it are blender(3d) and icarus(3d tracker) you can get both of these applications for free although icarus is for non-commercial work only. Basically you take your shot into icarus and you track a number of areas of your footage, find out your camera’s focal length and location in 3d space, then you take that information acquired by icarus into blender and your camera’s location relative to the objects you filmed are matched and the camera path is already set for you, so then you add your cg elements to the scene and animate them how ever you like. All that’s left then is compositing the original footage with the cg footage in After Effects.

I’m pretty happy with the way that it has turned out, i’d probably like it to be a bit longer in retrospect but more than anything i’m looking forward to using these techniques in other videos along the line (especially if i get good at blender). P.S in the final shot where it goes blurry to focused back and forth, was all accidental, the camera which was in auto focus at this point got stuck into this weird limbo where it couldn’t focus on anything so bobbed back and forth like you see in the clip, i liked what it was doing so kept it in.

Check out some of the screenshots of the softwares at work below.

Hope you liked the video!

Blurred (instrumental)

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:31:58 +0000

Here’s a little instrumental song i wrote, hope to record it properly soon either by myself or as a band, and add a bit more depth and layer to it. This is sort of an experiment in posting this as i can create these videos more often in-between my other video experiments, animation etc… i’m not sure what sort of response this sort of video will get here, if it’s good, then i’ll do more variations like this from time to time, plus play different genres, and if it’s not received that well then i’ll get the picture and stick to what i’ve been doing.

I will say though, i do like the colour grading of it.

Untitled

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:49:16 +0000

Short abstract video created using iStopMotion and the iSight camera on my macbook, wasn’t sure whether to post this or not but decided for because i like the audio (and plus am feeling guilty for lack of posts). Working on some cool songs and videos (lengthier) at the moment that i’m really excited about and can’t wait to post, stay tuned i’ll try to post more regularly from now on!

PLANET TERROR (DVD Menu)

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:17:13 +0000

This is the final project of my second year at GCADT/ CSCCI (Digital Video Design/ Interactive and Motion Design). I decided to do a dvd menu for ‘Planet Terror‘ because i’m a big fan of the director (Robert Rodriguez) and the ‘Grindhouse‘ revival concept, plus it’s my favourite of the two movies.

During designing this project i decided to learn how to use Blender 3D (an open source 3d modeling/ animation program) which i used for the text. I also decided to do some rotoscoping of some of the films characters, which is always good fun. Of course, the video makes more sense as on a authored interactive dvd, and i decided not to upload the special features menu at the moment.

*UPDATE*- Flash is better quality, iPod added, Quicktime plays much faster.

Channel 5 Ident

krys@kmogvideo.net (Krystian Morgan) — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:29:42 +0000

Ok this is a very short video post. This uni project is a late night, popcorn movie ident for Channel Five. I made it in one night, i’ll post some longer videos soon, i am on my final project of year two at the moment. So have alot to do these next 4 weeks.