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The Beginning of the End (or is it the Beginning?)

DMIP Blog Evaluation As a part of my University Degree, I was asked to keep a Blog for one of my modules, documenting not only work done for that specific module, but all the other modules done over the course … Continue reading

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Apple’s Surprisingly Impressive Creative Suite Imitation

Open Your Eyes! So what’s this you say?  Apple ripping off the Creative Suite!  How Dare They!  Well, perhaps that was a touch strong for what has really happened, and after all it’s not really a new thing. Apples iLife … Continue reading

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VR Worx – Panoramas and Object Movies

VR Worx is a program specifically designed to create Panoramic movie clips.  By creating one of these movie clips and exporting the final result, Apples Quicktime can allow the user to look around the panoramic image by dragging the mouse.  An object … Continue reading

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CGI – How It Happened

The Opinionation of CGI It all nearly didn’t happen.  Back in the early days of computer animation (the 70s and then the 80s) people where afraid of computers, perhaps they had seen too many George Lucas films and where worried … Continue reading

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Lecture 8 – Audio and Overdubbing

Shut Up and Shoot In our 9th instalment of Single Camera DVP lectures, we looked into the importance of sound, and how it can be used to make or break your work.  For starters, we watched a DVD called the Shut … Continue reading

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Dynamics in Maya 1

Bowling Alley And so, here we are again, at another corner of Maya’s skill set, this time looking into Dynamics.  This one, seeing as I am completely inexperienced with Dynamics, will actually be from a lecture I went to, using the … Continue reading

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What Effect Could Dave Hill Have On You?

The Dave Hill/Dragan Effect Today I am going to be experimenting with an effect in Photoshop called the Dragan or Dave Hill Effect.  I find the Dragan effect difficult to describe, it is a bit like bronzing a photograph and … Continue reading

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Texturing with Maya 1

That Old Chestnut Texturing in Maya, for me, is one of the most difficult parts, as you can fully texture a model, and then have the look of the model change on render due to outside influences such as lighting … Continue reading

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Film Studies Lecture 8 – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Peter Greenaway wrote and directed this film, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, in 1989.  It starred Richard Bohringer (the cook), Michael Gambon (the thief), Helen Mirren (his … Continue reading

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Film Studies Lecture 5 – Philadelphia

Philadelphia Philadelphia is a 1993 drama staring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, directed by Jonathan Demme.  It is based around the true story of Geoffrey Bowers, a law attorney who, in 1987, was dismissed from Baker & McKenzie, who then won financial compensation in … Continue reading

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