i’ve set up the second revision of my dad’s website, PeterReidBMW.com - a space on the web for his pride and joy, his BMW 323i.

it’s a first foray into PHP - something i’ve been telling myself i’d start investigating but up until recently haven’t gotten around to. the site was originally powered by WordPress but now uses a basic CMS-ish system i’ve written myself (implementing TinyMCE for easy editing).

not all that fascinating to look at, unless of course you like 3 series beamers, in which case you should hit up the gallery page pronto!

just doing some messing around with time stretching.

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second cut of birds. new and improved?

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for tomorrow’s experimental animation class…

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some footage of the back of an abandoned house just up the street from our place, with some insect-esque objects that i generated in processing composited over the top. it’s 99% complete but i think i’ll still soundtrack it and perhaps fix up a few minor bits and pieces, and hopefully have a crack at a soundtrack, too.

first draft of a video piece i have due on thursday. should have the final cut done in a few hours, but i thought i’d throw this one up now in case i end up taking it apart and going from the ground up…

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compression is a bit messy but i can’t be bothered tidying it up since it’s just a draft. enjoy.

our first assignment for experimental animation was to be either a silhouette or hand-drawn animation. i decided to go with silhouettes, but in the end it’s become more of a stop-motion piece, since my makeshift studio wasn’t capable of backlighting.

captured using FrameThief, soundtracked in Live, cropped and stretched in Motion.

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(try watching with headphones on - the bouncing sounds pan left to right as the balls move across the screen..)

it’s interesting using a hands-on medium after a couple of years of mostly digital work. i had thought it would be fairly time consuming, although once i got it going it was surprisingly quick, and while it could have been put together in flash using a bit of scripting, it’s hard to beat that nice old school aesthetic of a stop frame animation. i’m hoping to do a bit more of this type of stuff over the next couple of months and develop it a little further - i was chopping a few bits and pieces up in Motion afterwards, and the stop-frame style lends itself quite nicely to some really interesting effects.