Research & Development
Exploration and experimentation with new techniques and technologies
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
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
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
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.