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Kung Fu Energy Ball

Nick — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:46:40 -0500

In this tutorial from Pro Juice, Nick takes you through the steps of creating an energy ball with the Particle Filter in Adobe After Effects.

Using a layer of smoke, blurs, colour correction and some masking techniques, Nick shows you how to create the energy ball, give it a burning hot spot, animate it to fly towards the camera and reflect off the nearby fence.

You can also download the sound effect (created by Arlo) used in the animation here to use in your own project.

Killer Snare

Arlo — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:38:59 -0500

You can't really get away with just using one snare sample these days. So in this tutorial, Arlo shows us how to create a killer snare sound for hip hop or breaks.

Pekka Stokke

Nick — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:33:57 -0500

Pekka Stokke is an editor, VJ and visual artist working from Trondheim in Norway. He can often be seen throughout Northern Europe projecting visuals for jazz groups, electronic acts and metal bands such as Motopsycho. His work is experimental to say the least and is always captivating. Here, he talks all things tech and lets us know what he’s recently been up to.

Wah Remix Winner

Arlo — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:36:42 -0500

Hey Juicers,

We've got a big announcement. The winners of the 'Wah remix comp'!

Let me just say the standard was excellent... but enough stalling here are the Winners.

First the winner from Australia: Shifty Sly

Here's his mix: http://soundcloud.com/shiftysly/science-of-night-wah-shifty

We'd also like to thank Luke Meader for his excellent entry. This was a hard decision.

And our international Winner from Russia: Monodumb

Here's Monodumb's mix: http://soundcloud.com/monodumb/science-of-night-wah-monodumb

Both winners get a boxed copy of ProTools 9 from AVID and will be releases on the Official 'Science of Night - Wah' Remix single on Velcro, among other great prizes.

Thanks again for all our entries and keep you eye on projuice.org for more great opportunities

Peace.

Arlo.

Overdrive

Nick — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:55:28 -0500

Congratulations to Matt Cal and The Black Heart Sun for taking out "Best Blues / Roots" song at the 2011 West Australian Music Industry Awards (WAM) for their track "Overdrive."

The West Australian Music Industry Association Inc. (WAM) exists to develop the contemporary music industry in Western Australia. WAM is a non-profit membership based association, and the peak representative body for contemporary music in WA.

Whether solo or with his band, Black Heart Sun, Matt Cal is a WA musician worth checking out. His music comes together to produce sweet, raw, eclectic roots grooves. Painting with folk, hip hop, blues and lyrical imagery, Matt draws on the vast tradition of Australian roots troubadours Blue Shaddy, Xavier Rudd, John Butler &Ash Grunwald along with his international contemporaries to create music that is truly his own.

" Outstanding exhibition of West Australian Blues & Roots Music " faster louder review.

We have Matt's music video for his track "Kimberley Moon" on the Pro Juice site so click on the link and check it out. The video is soon to be released on the WAM DVD as well as being released to ABC's Rage. We'll keep you posted of screening and release dates.

To get a copy of his brand new CD, check out Matt's website here.

Baz Harvey

Nick — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:49:01 -0500

Name:

Baz Harvey

Age:

Undsiclosed

Education:

Bachelor of Creative industries (Film Major, Edith Cowan University), Audio Engineering, Studio Sound Certificate (SAE) Small Business Management (TAFE)

Occupation:

Filmmaker, Music video, experimental film and documentary maker. Motion Graphics designer, Audio Engineer, Music Producer, Song Writer

Creative Influences:

Chris Cunningham, Adam Jones, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Chris Nolan, Matthew Barney, Tool, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, G.I Gurdjieff, P.D Ouspensky, LIFE!

Software/Hardware/Camera of Choice:

Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Apple Motion, Cubase SX, Protools. Sony Z1 and Sony EX1 ( i would prefer to use a Red1, Scarlett or an EX3 but dont have the funds)

Awards/Grants/Achievements:

Nominated for best music video in the open catergory for the Western Australian Screen Awards 09 (will find out result later this month)

Tell us about a piece of work you are particularly proud of and why?

See For Music video. The culmination of 6months hard work, a decade of philosophical evolution and understanding...to be continued!

What's New?

Since we caught up with Baz a few years ago he has gotten very busy... a lot of experimental filmmaking, art, fashio and photography. He's got a number of new music videos that he's shared with us so we've linked them here for your viewing pleasure.

Qasem Foushanji

Nick — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:19:02 -0500

Kabul: A City At Work is a multi-media project, led by a joint international and Afghan crew collecting interviews, photographic portraits and video shorts of the people of Kabul in their working environments.

These small yet focused vignettes of Kabul life are a window into the soul of a much-misrepresented city that will show the Afghan public and an international audience a positive view of the vibrant economic life that exists in Afghanistan.

# 017 – Who is the Rock Star?

Name: Qasem Foushanji
Age: 24 years
Length of service: years
Income: $ Less than zero
Band members: 4
Features in Rolling Stone : 1
Location: Taimini PD13

To view the video, photographs ans text interview visit the Kabul: A City at Work website page for this episode.

April 2012 Update

Nick — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:27:03 -0500

It’s Been A While…

We’ve been hibernating for some time since the successful release of Pro Juice Series One in 2011 on ABC iView and you might have noticed some changes.

The website has had an overhaul and we’ve got some great new content up on the site. There’s a bunch of new tutorials from Series One as well as new interviews, showcase videos and rants.

We’ve been quiet because Nick has been living in East Timor editing the nations first home-grown feature film and Arlo has been busy producing pumping tunes and working with Zelon.

But we’re back… and we’re here to bring you more great media. If you’ve got something you want us to showcase then shoot us through a link. If you’ve got an idea for Series Two then let us know about it. And if you want to be profiled on the show (or know someone worthy) then get in touch.

Find us here:

URL: www.projuice.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Projuicers

Blip: http://blip.tv/projuicetv

For me one of the great new showcase clips is from Dropbear. Check out his new video clip Against the Grain:

http://www.projuice.org/showcase/music-videos/against-the-grain-by-dropbear/

Congratulations to the winners of the ‘Wah’ Remix competition, Shifty Sly and Monodumb. You can check out what they won and why here:

http://www.projuice.org/news/wah-remix-winner/

There’s some more comps in the pipeline and as I said, some great new content on the way. Pro Juice Series One is also looking to be released on DVD soon… all 6 episodes and extra content including texture packs, SFX, projects and free tunes.

we've also got a little relationship going with the guys at Ozanimate so we'll be posting some of the great interviews and showcase aimations from their nifty website.

We’ll keep you up to date with what’s going on a bit more regularly and don’t be shy, get in contact if you’ve got something we should see!

Peace out

Pro Juice

Ozanimate meets Maik Hempel

Nick — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:01:06 -0500

Pro Juice are happy to announce a nice bit of cross-promoting of some great Aussie animators. The guys over at Ozanimate are doing a great job of promoting Australian animators by featuring their work and producing some very nifty interviews.

We've got a bunch of them on the Pro Juice site for your viewing pleasure…

Ozanimate recently caught up with Director and Animator, Maik Hempel to have a chat about his epic journey as he went through the trials and tribulations of producing a series of 7 episodes for his show, Mollusks . If you haven’t followed the stories on Maik getting Mollusks off the ground then you might want to check out our previous coverage here, here and here.

Conducting the Interview is Ozanimate’s very own, Benjamin Drake. Ben was involved with the early concept stages and even flew back to Melbourne when he was asked to provide his voice talent for a few characters of the show.

Ozanimate Meets – Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment

Nick — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:01:04 -0500

South Australian filmmakers Ari Gibson and Jason Pamment have been long time collaborators in Adelaide and have received much praise for their work together. Winning an AFI award and an Inside Film award (amongst others) for their collaboration with the People’s Republic of Animation - The Cat Piano (Directed by Ari Gibson and Eddie White).

Having had the good fortune to have worked with Ari and Jase and few projects around Adelaide, I thought I’d sit down with them and talk about their latest project - Sometimes the Stars. A music video for the Audreys, which sees the pair take a step away from the conventional studio environment go out on their own.

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Kung Fu Energy Ball

Killer Snare

Pekka Stokke

Wah Remix Winner

Overdrive

Baz Harvey

Name:

Age:

Education:

Occupation:

Creative Influences:

Software/Hardware/Camera of Choice:

Awards/Grants/Achievements:

Tell us about a piece of work you are particularly proud of and why?

What's New?

Qasem Foushanji

Kabul: A City At Work is a multi-media project, led by a joint international and Afghan crew collecting interviews, photographic portraits and video shorts of the people of Kabul in their working environments.

These small yet focused vignettes of Kabul life are a window into the soul of a much-misrepresented city that will show the Afghan public and an international audience a positive view of the vibrant economic life that exists in Afghanistan.

# 017 – Who is the Rock Star?

Name: Qasem Foushanji Age: 24 years Length of service: years Income: $ Less than zero Band members: 4 Features in Rolling Stone : 1 Location: Taimini PD13

To view the video, photographs ans text interview visit the Kabul: A City at Work website page for this episode.

April 2012 Update

Ozanimate meets Maik Hempel

Ozanimate Meets – Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment

Name: Qasem Foushanji
Age: 24 years
Length of service: years
Income: $ Less than zero
Band members: 4
Features in Rolling Stone : 1
Location: Taimini PD13