On the Blog
What I've been up to lately both professional and personal projects.
Element 3D Blade Runner Scene
I always try and make time for passion projects and experimenting with new tools. Recently I’ve just migrated over to a windows machine optimised for Adobe After Effects and have been experimenting with VideoCopilot’s plug-in Element 3D. Element 3D is a remarkable...
VFX Breakdown: Fire, Object Removal & Matte Painting in After Effects
VFX Breakdown: Burning buildings, matte painting & object removal. A few months back The Sketch Files, an online comedy collaborative, approached me in need of a few visual effects on a project. Most notably they wanted a building to be set on fire. Simple...
Water Colour effect in After Effects
So in Spring/Summer 2017 I was commissioned to create an animated intro sequence for Private Lives of the Monarchs. The show producers wanted something that looked like the Sherlock Holmes/Ripper Street mashup. Design wise the Sherlock Holmes notepad...
Ripper Street/Sherlock Holmes Title Sequence
Being a motion graphics nerd I have always been fascinated by title sequences. I absolutely love it when a studio puts the effort in to make something imaginative for the opening/closing credits. One of my all time favourites has to be the Sherlock Holmes...
On Tour
Throughout my career I have had the pleasure of working in some weird and wonderful locations. Not too unusual when I'm shooting but when I am editing or animating it can be a bit challenging. High pressure, quick turn around jobs can be as fun as they are stressful...
Space Guns: VFX Challenge
Another personal challenge project. I wanted to create a short project with a tonne of different visual effects incorporated. Sci-Fi is something I love to get involved with, as a genre it poses a huge challenge in terms of visual effects and gives me, as a VFX artist...
Its in the Bag: Animating Vector Graphics
It’s in the Bag, a bristol based testicular cancer charity focusing on support and awareness needed 2 informercial type videos. one being a “self checking guide” and the other being a “what to do if you find something” video. It’s in the Bag wanted...
How to create destruction in After Effects.
How to create destruction in After Effects. This technique works on pretty much anything. If you can track the shot, find and blend the right elements the same principles apply. In about 2011 I was gifted a ride in a hot air balloon. On the morning of the flight, I...
How to animate a still photo with After Effects
How to animate a photo with After Effects In this blog post I am going to explain how I created the above video using After Effects and Photoshop. This effect can be done solely inside After Effects using masking and the clone brush tool. However, it does increase...