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Comissioned by BBC WebWise and produced by Red Nomad, this interactive online project aims to teach computer literacy to it viewers.
The project is a mixture of the latest Flash coding, video production, post production and video streaming technology.
My involvement in the project was green screen keying/subtraction and generating some special effects, and currently ongoing development in the latest compression techniques to stream the video over the web most effectively.
Look out on BBC WebWise in the next few months for the finished project!
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Neil at NASC and Jan at Custom Films www.customfilms.co.uk commissioned this opening sequence for their news report. Thanks for the comments!
“Pixelblock Media provided a superb opening and closing animation sequence for our news reels. Highly professional, Pixelblock delivered outstanding service and interpreted our requirements exactly. I would have no hesitation in recommending them (and in fact have already done so)”
Neil Tomlinson MCIM MIDM
Marketing Manager
NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Association)
www.nasc.org.uk
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January 04, 2010
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Good news! The Cotic Simple Speed photo’s from the video shoot have been published in this months WideOpen online magazine. Check out page 26 “Keep it Simple Stupid”
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September 29, 2009
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A demo cut of a video produced for a Swiss Paragliding Course from Yomps, the adventure travel company. The demo cut is being used in order to commission further adventure travel video productions from Pixelblock.
See it in action on the Yomps Swiss Paragliding course webpage http://www.yomps.co.uk/trip-search/trips/12415/swiss-paragliding-pilots-course
This was also great fun to shoot, perhaps rivaling the Cotic shoot at times.. I’ll let you decide
All shot on Panasonic’s new Lumix TZ7, which supports AVCDLite, a new type of video compressor that allows HD to be compressed super small without too much quality loss. This format is a total dream to work with in Final Cut Pro!
Colour grading and shot stablisation took place on Apple Colour and Final Cut, and title designs with AfterEffects. Anyway, enough technical grab, sit down and enjoy the video; you’ll be booking next year’s course before the week’s out! See the Yomps website for more details.
Thanks to Hope and Social, published by Sunshine HQ, for the use of ‘Red Red Rose’.
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September 25, 2009
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Commissioned by the folding mountain bike company, Swissbike. I fancy one of these!
The animation has been used as a web banner, and to enhance their Youtube campaign.
Commissioned by the very cool folding mountain bike company Swissbike, this animation has been used as a web banner, and to enhance their Youtube campaign. I quite fancy one of these!
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September 22, 2009
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RIDER / robbierickman.blogspot.com
BIKE / cotic.co.uk/product/simple
MUSIC / hopeandsocial.com
And featured on the Singletrack mountain bike magazine website
While in Switzerland on a paragliding trip, I was approached by Singlespeed Rider Robbie Rickman and together we shot and produced this video for Cotic.
Editing and post-production took place on a comfy couch by the fireside, courtesy of the boys at Verbier Summits!
Probably the most we’ve ever had on a shoot… Bring on more!!
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September 22, 2009
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For our good friends at Redbug Productions and their client, a day of modeling the H1N1 virus based on microscopic photographs.
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September 22, 2009
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You may have seen vans whizzing around towns bearing the Dalkia logo. These guys service our retail stores, from the air conditioning units in Boots to the tills in New Look!
Blackman Productions, an independent Churt, Hampshire based producer commissioned us with the editing and final DVD production of this video.
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September 22, 2009
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Tympani Productions commissioned us to produce a short animated title sequence to introduce a prospectus video for The Westgate School.
The animation is a mixed composition of live images and 3D animation, which demonstrates the seamless integration of the two.
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September 22, 2009
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A perfect example of how a mixture of 3D animation and motion graphics can demonstrate a sequence of events, in this case an electrical system that recovers computers systems from power or data failure. Commissioned by the creative guys at the multimedia agency Drum Studios.