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Research & Development

Exploration and experimentation with new techniques and technologies



101 Gen-1 Experiments




Date

2023

Category

A.I.

About

Gen-1 from Runway is a multi-modal AI system that can synthesize videos based on image prompts. It results in the original inputted video taking the aethetics of the prompt image.



Stable Diffusion Animation Tests






Date

2023

Category

A.I.

About

Ongoing experimentation with the Stable Diffusion AI model.





Art + Film: Experiments with MidJourney


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Date

2022

Category

A.I

About

Midjourney is a neural network that turns your typed words into digital art. The results of which are quite staggering.

I created these images by simply typing artist’s names together with film titles and the A.I. imagines the rest.

- Jean-Michel Basquiat x My Neighbour Totoro
- Andrew Whyth x The Good The Bad and The Ugly
- Damien Hirst x Jaws
- Mark Rothko x 2001
- Pablo Picasso x Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Am Cassandre x Bladerunner
- Alphonse Mucha x Ghost in the Shell
- Saul Bass x Akira
- Edward Hopper x The Shinning
- Umberto Boccioni x Terminator



Camera Shutter Lasers





Date

2021

Category

In-camera Lighting Effects

About

An effect I developed in collaboration with lighting designer Matthew Button.

By turning the camera 90 degrees and slowing the camera’s shutter, laser light appears to travel as shards across the frame. Various looks can be created by drawing different laser paths and adjusting the rate of their projection. There are literally infinite effects to be discovered.

The effect is only for the camera but is captured in real time. This means if a person is moving in the scene, their movement appears normal.



Typography Experiment with Nvidia Canvas


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Date

2021

Category

A.I

About

An AI landscape alphabet I created using Nvidia Canvas.

The software creates highly detailed landscape photography from super simple digital paintings by using artificial intelligence. Meaning these images are completely made up in the mind of a computer. I thought I’d try something different with it and create some type.



DIY Offset Coloured Light Shadows


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Date

2019

Category

Lighting

About

After being inspired by the work of Olafur Eliasson at his retrospective at Tate Modern, I thought I’d try and recreate one of his works for my kids at home.

A simple yet incredibly engaging lighting effect which they loved playing in front of.



3D Sculpture Scans




Date

2016

Category

Motion Graphics

About

Scan the world is a 3D printing library containing scans of hundreds of famous sculptures from museums and galleries the world over.

I decided to put some of my favourites all in one place.



Google Tilt Brush VR Painting




Date

2016

Category

VR

About

Tilt brush is a virtual reality program that allows you to draw and paint in 3D space. It is by far the best experience I have had using VR.



Audio React Mode - Stella Stars




Date

2015

Category

Lighting

About

When installing Stars for Stella Artois in New York we played with the code so that the kinetic lights reacted to music. This was never used in public but the team and I had some fun with it.



3D Photo / Camera Mapping - Moon Landing




Date

2015

Category

Motion Graphics

About

This is a technique in which I have applied 3D geometry to 2D photography giving the images a never before seen depth.

A simple 3D model is created and then the photo texture is projected upon it from the point of view of a virtual camera. The virtual camera then has a limited range of movement which beautifully shows off the 3D form of the image.



Google Earth Animations




Date

2015

Category

Motion Graphics / Google Maps

About

Google earth imagery has always fascinated me and now using Google Earth Studio (Developed by B-Reel) animations can be made.

This film takes a look back at all the places I visited in California during a trip I took with my wife.



Google Street View Film Overlays




Date

2014

Category

Motion Graphics / Google Maps

About

Classic movie moments placed directly on the streets on which they were shot. Had fun finding these.



Infinity - Particle Experiments






Year

2014

Category:

Motion Graphics

About

Experiments with particle animation in After Effects.



Star Canvas - An interactive Night Sky




Date

2013

Category

Interactive Installation

About

A collaborative passion project with colleagues at B-Reel. Star Canvas utilised Leap Motion to control and explore constellations in a virtual night sky projected into a large dome. Users could contribute their own constellation via a bespoke drawing application on a tablet and send their creations into the canvas.



Audio Driven Animation




Date

2012

Category

Motion Graphics

About

I have always been a fan of particle animation and here I tried using audio as a driver for motion.



Camera Track Test




Date

2012

Category

Motion Graphics

About

A bit of footage I shot of the catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Using C4D I was able to track the geometry of this brutalist building and add some weirdness.



Extreme Slow Motion with Twixtor




Date

2012

Category

Motion Graphics

About

Twixtor is a piece of software that interpolates frames when footage is slowed down. Originally shot at 50fps I slowed this down 10x resulting in motion imagery that almost looks like a photograph.



EELS




Date

2011

Category

Interactive / Game

Awards

FWA - Site Of The Day

About

EELS was a 3D projction mapping multiplayer game that we created as a R&D project at B-Reel. Using any touch screen device users could simply login and start controlling their asigned 'EEL' straight away.



Early After Effects Experiments




Date

2009

Category

Motion Graphics

About

Once upon a time I started using After Effects.





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