Belated third post...

Well, I've so far done this Every. Single. Time. with every blog I've ever tried to start. two posts, then forgotten. I'm also a little embarrassed to see I have more than the 5 views I assumed I had. So, here's me second resolve to actually post things.

Just to kick things off I'll do a quick recap of what's happened since my last (and first) posts. I'm still at Blink working in the studio. Things have been going really well there, lots of great jobs! We've grown the team loads and there's a nice, positive direction that we're headed in. (in which we're headed?)

Some highlights I've been involved in to various extents over the past two years (I'll do some posts about a few of these in retrospect):
John Lewis - The Bear & The Hare
Francois and the Atlas Mountains - The Way to the Forest
Jose Cuervo - The Alchemist
Twinings - Drink it All In
Grolsch - 400 Years
Clipper - Naturally Colourful

There's a bunch more nice jobs we've done which I've had less of a hand in. Also, we've got a couple in the works right now which I'm really excited about. 

Sandy - Joseph Mann

Also recently released is Sandy - a short film by Joseph Mann. Check out the film in full on his website or on the Blink Ink site. I joined the project in post-production and didn't get my hands quite as dirty as some of the others working on it. However, I did some pipeline R&D at the start and managed to comp a couple of shots.

I'm particularly pleased with my sparkling sea at the start. Nice to dust off the After Effects skills from time to time! For that also I'll post a little tutorial as someone might find that useful. It'll all be text and images I'm afraid - not a huge fan of video tutorials.

Arctic Monkeys Waveform

Quite an exciting one for my first post, well for me at least. Check out the new Arctic Monkeys music video for Do I Wanna' Know to see my first bit of production code in action. At the Blink studio I was asked to develop a rig to easily animate a stylised waveform by director David Wilson. You can see it below - it's a pretty big bit of the video which gives me a kick.

You can also see it at the beginning of their headline Glastonbury set on iPlayer for a bit! That was very cool to watch - it's a really good set too. I'm going to try to do a quick write-up on how the rig works. It's not that complicated but hopefully there'll be something interesting or useful in there! Hopefully I'll be able to put that up here soon.